Every limited
edition we can trace.

A chronograph split across two dials with a retrograde hand — the sensible answer to a rectangular face.

World time with a city selector on the back; not revisited until the 2025 Tribute Geographic.

The sixth and final watch of the anniversary series, released for the millennium.

85th anniversary. Bi-axial flying tourbillon, ~30% smaller than the 2008 Gyrotourbillon 2.

Marking 90 years of the Reverso and 150 years since Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first minute repeater in 1870. Skeletonised front and back, with patented trebuchet hammers and a new generation of gongs. 35 h power reserve.

90th anniversary. Four working faces, eleven complications, twelve patents.

Calibre 953 brings together seven patented chime inventions — trebuchet hammers, crystal gongs, silent-interval elimination — with a 48-hour reserve, unusually long for a repeater. A teal grand feu enamel dial up front; a fully open-worked, blue-lacquered reverse. Part of the six-watch Nonantième Collector’s Box.

The Calibre 179 Gyrotourbillon — 123 components, a full rotation every 16 seconds — reissued in white gold for 2025, with the same Duoface second time zone on the reverse.

A master engraver spends 180 hours wrapping a sculptural Pegasus relief around the case, hiding the join between its sections. The front dial echoes the cloud motif in pink gold and hand-filled blue lacquer, framing the open-worked Calibre 179 Gyrotourbillon.

An enamel miniature titled “The Path of Truth,” limited to eight pieces — little else about it is documented beyond the subject and edition size.

A jewelled Reverso combining a mother-of-pearl dial with power reserve and thermometer indications — an unusually complicated dial layout for a gem-set piece. Neither a name nor an edition size has surfaced for this specific example; catalogued here on the strength of Sotheby’s own 2008 lot description alone.

A third distinct reference built around the tiny calibre 101 — alongside the Reverso Joaillerie (280.3.70) and Grande Reverso 101 (3006430) elsewhere in this section — here on a straight-line movement in an Art Déco case, limited to just five pieces.

A larger platinum expression of the calibre 101 — 29 x 46 mm rather than the 11 x 27.5 mm case used across the Les Folies bracelet family catalogued on its own page — with a fully skeletonised, diamond-set dial visible through a sapphire back, showing off the movement rather than hiding it.

A double-dialled world time automatic chronograph with date and day/night indication, on titanium rather than the more usual precious metal or steel.

Straps by the Argentine polo bootmaker Casa Fagliano. Reissued for the 90th anniversary.

For the manufacture’s own 185th anniversary.

Ninetieth, in Swiss-French — continuing the Soixantième/Septantième naming. Moon phase and date on the front; on the back, a complication never before put on a Reverso: a semi-jumping digital hour beside a rotating minute disc and a day/night indicator, over a hand-engraved star field in deep blue lacquer.

The first limited edition in the Tribute Chronograph range. Solid gold dial laser-engraved with Art Deco lines; gold bridges echo the 1996 original. Integrated manual chronograph with retrograde 30-minute counter, 52 h reserve.

World time returns to the Reverso. The steel version joined the standing catalogue; gold was capped at 150.

The steel companion to the pink-gold Wempe anniversary piece.

A collaboration with designer Darren Romanelli for the Reverso’s 75th anniversary, sold through the Paris concept store Colette.

Three pieces. The engraving came from an advertisement JLC ran in The New Yorker announcing a boutique opening.

A black bat-symbol with “FOREVER” through it, made alongside the 1995 film and never sold — distributed for promotion, charity auctions, and cast/crew gifts. Most of the 35 examples have never resurfaced.

The same 1996 anniversary, engraved instead with the Matterhorn — the peak most associated with the Valais region and with Switzerland abroad.

The prancing horse enamelled onto the case-back, on the same case reference used elsewhere for the Mucha enamel sets.

A steel automatic dual-time Reverso with date, made for the Royal Windsor Horse Show — one of the smallest runs in this archive.

Made by the Métiers Rares craftsmen in the club’s red and black; a separately personalised piece was made for Adriano Galliani.

For the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and the Mexico City boutique opening: Mexican muralist Guillermo Ceniceros engraved “man’s duality” (steel) and “man in motion” (rose gold) onto the case-back.

Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce logo engraved on the back with the edition number. Shipped in a walnut box with a letter written in character as Roger Sterling.

A black Bat-Shield engraved and lacquered on the case-back, visible only when flipped; made for Warner Bros. executives and Christopher Nolan himself. A planned wider release never happened.

Award presentation piece for Belgium’s Magritte film awards, given to Best Actor Benoît Poelvoorde and Best Actress Pauline Étienne; the honorary award went to director Emir Kusturica, who received a matching Atmos clock instead.

For the 60th anniversary of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra; sales funded roughly 70% of the orchestra’s free Sunday concerts, and Jaeger-LeCoultre separately took on the upkeep of the historic public clock at the orchestra’s home, Sala São Paulo.

For the opening of the Bond Street boutique, sold only there, in person.

Five years in the making, and it began as a conversation in a Brussels jeweller’s shop. Charly Herscovici, president of the Magritte Foundation, was a long-standing customer of Maison De Greef — the oldest jeweller in Belgium, run by the same family since 1848 — and one day the talk with Jacques Wittmann turned to a watch Magritte himself would not have disowned. The result marks two anniversaries at once: the Reverso’s 85th in 2016, and the 50th of Magritte’s death in 2017. The case-back carries a lacquered engraving of The Treachery of Images (1929) — the pipe beneath the schoolchild’s handwriting reading “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”. Design director Janek Deleskiewicz admitted the flat, absolutely even colour was “a real challenge”. Five pieces in white gold as the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin 1931, fifteen in steel as the Tribute to 1931.

The second of a planned triptych. A Reverso Classic Large in steel whose reverse carries a miniature of Magritte’s L’Oiseau de Ciel (1966) — the silhouette of a dove filled with clouds, its blue picked up by the numerals on the dial. The edition size is the quiet joke: thirty-three pieces, for 1833, the year the manufacture was founded. A third series was promised within two years.

Hand-painted miniature of Mondriaan’s 1921 Composition on the reverse; the front is an entirely standard Reverso Classic Large Small Second with no mention of the edition.

Made for YPO, the global network of chief executives, and ordered through its members, with orders closing on 1 January 2025. A Reverso Tribute with small seconds in the 45.6 × 27.4 mm case: a silver dial in steel, and a choice of silver or black dial in pink gold. The case back carries the globe, for a group that spans the world, as an enamelled world map, in blue or black, over an engraved field of triangles, the pattern of the YPO emblem. Collectors could choose between two versions of the case-back design. Thirty-eight were made in steel and twelve in pink gold; orders are thought to have been closed before the edition was filled.

For the Japanese retailer Hayashi, on the second-generation Duoface case — thirty pieces.

A double anniversary: 85 pieces for the 85th anniversary of both Christ the Redeemer and the Reverso itself. Blue dial, day/night indicator, statue engraved on the back.

Thirty-nine pieces for the ninth king of the Chakri dynasty; a deep yellow "dawn" dial and Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) engraved on the back.

Made to mark Expo 2020 Dubai — one of relatively few Reverso editions tied to a World’s Fair.

Small seconds and guilloché dial on the front; the reverse is engraved with Geneva’s skyline — the Jet d’Eau and St. Pierre Cathedral — set with 40 diamonds.

For the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation. Per Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own certificate, dated Le Sentier, 3 March 1997: black dial, painted silver Roman numerals, dauphine hands, and a case-back “decorated with a special engraving, which commemorates the 150 years of the Swiss Confederation” — the Swiss flag.

For the 1997 Hong Kong handover: a tri-colour enamelled map of Greater China on the case-back, with dual English/Chinese certificates.

For Sincere, the Singapore watch retailer’s 50th anniversary, on the 8-day Grande Réserve platform rather than a simple three-hand base.

For the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, close to the Reverso’s own 80th: the numeral ‘8’ replaced by a red ‘R’, the Roman numeral for 80. Sources disagree on the exact steel/gold split — 150/150 in one account, 150/50 in another.

For 50 years of Singapore’s independence: a map of Singapore in red and white lacquer on the back, unnumbered, sold only at two Singapore boutiques.

Marking the 1991 liberation of Kuwait: green dial, scarlet numerals at 2 and 5 o’clock spelling ‘25’. Paired with a steel 55th-anniversary sibling the same year.

Marking 55 years since Kuwait’s independence from British protection: same green dial and flag palette, a single scarlet ‘55’ replacing the ‘5’.

Engraved and enamelled with the logo of The Wakaya Club & Spa, Fiji, and the initials of its owner, David H. Gilmour, who also founded Fiji Water. Presented to Gilmour personally rather than sold at retail.

A single-island commemorative in the same spirit as Wakaya and the MR PORTER city editions — fifteen pieces, one of the smallest boutique-exclusive runs documented.

The second Latitude variant, sharing its reference with the first.

A hand-engraved, skeletonised movement shown through a sapphire display back. Made in tiny numbers and easily overlooked beside the anniversary pieces of the same period.

The white gold counterpart, carrying its own reference. Same skeletonised, hand-engraved movement under a sapphire display back.

Marking 65 years since the Reverso’s 1931 patent, run-size matched to the anniversary number.

Power reserve, moon phase and night-and-day. The platinum version was capped at 125; pink and white gold were standard production.

A collaboration with the British jeweller, in a run of just twenty pieces.

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own Collectibles listing (Hong Kong, 2026) dates it to 2001 and describes a skeletonised calibre 849R-SQ with hand-engraved bridges, not a tourbillon. Some other sources give 2002.

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own Collectibles listing (Hong Kong, 2026) dates it to 2003, with the tourbillon calibre 848. Some other sources give 2004.

Thirty-five pieces — one of the smallest Grande Taille runs of all, sharing its reference with Number Two.

A dual time-zone automatic Reverso with date — a large production run by this archive’s standards, in a family more often seen in far smaller editions.

For the Reverso’s 80th anniversary: a deliberately stripped-back dial without the JLC signature, echoing the earliest 1930s examples. Featured on the cover of a WatchTime special issue, and on Jay-Z’s wrist during his 2012 “Suit & Tie” performance at Carnegie Hall.

A genuine factory prototype, case No. 2’786’828, stamped “Proto 0” — the zeroth example built while developing what became the production blue enamel guilloché Grande Reverso “Email” on this same reference, catalogued separately above. It was sold with real purpose: in November 2011, for the Grand Opening of its 1881 Heritage boutique in Hong Kong, Jaeger-LeCoultre launched a “Proto Zero” initiative offering prototypes of select limited editions through that boutique, with 10% of each sale earmarked for the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation (ECSAF), a Hong Kong charity founded in 1998 by actress and child psychologist Ms Siao Fong Fong. For this particular watch, sold through Christie’s, Jaeger-LeCoultre donated the entire proceeds of the sale to ECSAF, and Christie’s donated the full buyer’s premium on top — none of the standard 10% arrangement applied here; the whole hammer price and premium went to the cause. ECSAF’s work spans counselling, academic research into the causes of child sexual abuse, and education programmes and workshops raising public awareness of child protection.

A red dial for the Reverso’s 80th anniversary, after the red dials of the early 1930s, sold through Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own boutiques; the case back is engraved “Edition Spéciale Rouge”. Some collectors describe it as limited to 500 pieces; we have not found that confirmed, and several sources list it as not numbered.

A blue grand feu enamel dial over hand-guilloché, on the Grande Taille case — white gold limited to 50 pieces, pink gold to 200. Not tied to any particular story or theme, unlike most of the enamel pieces cross-referenced elsewhere in this archive; a straightforward showcase of the guilloché-and-enamel technique itself.

Not a numbered edition but an ongoing customisation programme, launched 2016 for the Reverso Classic Large Duo Small Second, with a claimed 5,277 possible front/back/strap combinations — most originally aimed at women’s Reversos, some styled by Christian Louboutin. This 2017 update added men’s reverse-dial options in green marble and tiger’s eye, plus a bright blue galvanic-coated dial, ordered via boutique or a dedicated iPhone app.

A day/night Duoface paired with a strap from Casa Fagliano, the Argentine polo bootmaker whose straps also appear on several other Reverso partnership pieces in this archive.