# My Reverso Story — full text > An independent collector archive of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso: first-hand owner stories, engraved and enamelled case backs, pièces uniques, models, calibres and limited editions since 1931. Not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Each section below is one page of https://myreversostory.com; its address is on its "Source:" line. --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/what-is-the-reverso Summary: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is a rectangular watch whose case turns over in its cradle to protect the glass. Patented in 1931, it is now a family of watches. Updated: 2026-09-30 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Reference # What is the Reverso? The short answer, then everything behind it: the polo field, the patent, the case that turns over, and how one watch became a collection. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is a rectangular wristwatch whose case slides out of its cradle and turns over 180 degrees, hiding the glass behind a solid steel back. It was patented in Paris on 4 March 1931, for polo players in British India. By the My Reverso Story curators · Updated 30 September 2026 ## Key facts | Question | Answer | | --- | --- | | Maker | Jaeger-LeCoultre, Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux (the firm took that name when Jaeger and LeCoultre merged in 1937) | | Patent | French patent 712,868, registered in Paris on 4 March 1931; Swiss patent 159,982 a year later | | Mechanism | René-Alfred Chauvot | | The turn | 180 degrees, the case sliding free of its cradle | | Name | Latin, “I turn around” | | Movements | Around fifty calibres made for the Reverso since 1931 | | Families today | Classic, Tribute and One, set in 2016 | | Most complicated | Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 Quadriptyque (2021): four faces, eleven complications, twelve patents | ## Why the Reverso turns over The Reverso exists because watch glass broke. Travelling through India in the winter of 1930–31, the Swiss businessman César de Trey met British army officers for whom polo was a way of life, and whose watch crystals rarely survived a match. Mineral glass was standard then, and it shattered. The officers asked whether a watch could be covered, or even turned over, to protect the glass during a game. The answer was a case that could be flipped face-down, leaving only a blank metal back exposed. The Reverso's own story comes back to that field: in 2025 Jaeger-LeCoultre returned to it with a “1931 Polo Club” theme, and the Tribute Duoface Fagliano of 2016 carries straps from the Argentine polo bootmaker Casa Fagliano. ## Who invented the Reverso **René-Alfred Chauvot**, a French designer, invented the slide-and-flip mechanism. The project was brought by **César de Trey**, who registered the name Reverso himself, and taken up by **Jacques-David LeCoultre** and the Paris firm of **Edmond Jaeger**, which had worked with LeCoultre in Le Sentier for years. To sell the watch, de Trey and LeCoultre founded a distribution company in Lausanne, Spécialités Horlogères. In June 1937 it became the sales arm of the newly merged manufacture, Jaeger-LeCoultre. The first Reversos did not run on a LeCoultre movement. Nothing LeCoultre made fitted the rectangle, so the earliest watches used the Tavannes calibre 064, often signed “Lisica”, in cases by the Geneva maker A.E. Wenger. LeCoultre's own rectangular movements, the calibres 410 and 411, arrived in 1933. ## What the name Reverso means *Reverso* is Latin for “I turn around”. It describes the watch's one defining action: the case turns to show either its dial or its back. ## How the Reverso case works The watch has two parts. The **cradle** is the frame fixed to the strap; the **case** slides out of it and swivels over. On the original watch it slid free on two spring-loaded studs. Between the patent and the first production watches the case grew longer, and three stepped ribs, the **gadroons** (*godrons*), were added above and below the dial. They remain the Reverso's signature; the squarer Reverso II of 1982–83 is almost the only Reverso made without them. From 1985 the case was re-engineered from the inside without changing its outline. A skid system replaced the original pin in a groove, a guard ring holding the movement was sealed to the case, and the Reverso became water-resistant for the first time. The 1931 case had about 30 parts; the 1985 case has more than 50. ## The second face: from armour to canvas The back was engineered only to take a hit. Owners soon saw a canvas in it, and the second face became the most personal part of the watch. Pieces in this archive trace how quickly that happened: - **1933** — a Reverso engraved to commemorate Italo Balbo's transatlantic formation flight: [the Balbo Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso). - **1934** — [Prince Aage of Denmark's Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso), which he wrote had survived southern Morocco with the French Foreign Legion. - **1935** — a back engraved with a map reading MEXICO–NEW YORK: [the Amelia Earhart Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso). - **1936** — the first documented enamel, a portrait believed to show a maharani: [the “Maharani” Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso). - **1937** — a crown, the name EDWARD VIII and the date of a coronation that never took place: [the Edward VIII Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/edward-viii-reverso). Every case still leaves the workshop with a blank back. How owners fill it today is the subject of the [engraving guide](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) and of the [43 collector stories](https://myreversostory.com/stories) in this archive. ## From one watch to a collection 1. **1931** — patent filed; first series on the Tavannes 064. 2. **1933** — LeCoultre's own calibres 410 and 411. 3. **1937** — Jaeger and LeCoultre merge into Jaeger-LeCoultre. 4. **c.1948** — production of the vintage Reverso ends; the watch leaves the catalogue for more than twenty years. 5. **1972** — the Italian distributor Giorgio Corvo buys 200 forgotten steel cases, has them fitted with an oval movement, and sells them out in a month. 6. **1975** — back in the catalogue; relaunched in 1982–83 for the manufacture's 150th anniversary. 7. **1985** — the re-engineered, water-resistant case. 8. **1991** — the 60ème: the first complication and the first sapphire display back, and the larger Grande Taille case. 9. **1994** — the Duoface, and the world's first rectangular minute repeater movement. 10. **2006** — the Grande Complication à Triptyque, the first watch with three dials driven by one movement. 11. **2016** — the line-up is reset into three families: Classic, Tribute and One. 12. **2021** — the Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 Quadriptyque, with four working faces. 13. **2025** — world time returns, and a new minute repeater movement earns seven patents. The full account is on the [history page](https://myreversostory.com/history); every documented model, era by era, is on the [models page](https://myreversostory.com/models). ## Monoface, Duoface and Duetto A **Monoface** Reverso has one dial and a solid back. A **Duoface**, introduced in 1994, has a second dial on the back showing a second time zone, both driven by the same single movement. The **Duetto** of 1997 applied the idea to the women's Reverso: a discreet dial for day on the front and a more decorative one for evening on the back. ## The Reverso families today At SIHH 2016 Jaeger-LeCoultre replaced a fragmented line-up with three families, and almost everything sold since descends from that reset: - **Reverso Classic** — the modern entry point, in three sizes, each as Monoface, Duoface or Duetto. - **Reverso Tribute** — the heritage tier, closest in detail to the 1930s watches, with in-house calibres. - **Reverso One** — a slim women's line in a 2:1 rectangle, echoing the narrow ladies' Reversos of the 1930s. Above them sit the high complications of **Hybris Mechanica**, the artistic **Hybris Artistica** pieces, and the enamel and engraving of the **Métiers Rares** atelier. 117 limited, market and anniversary editions are listed on the [limited editions page](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions). ## The movements inside the Reverso Around fifty calibres have been made for the Reverso since 1931, each shaped to a watch that has to work upside down and back to front. A few mark the line's history: - **Tavannes 064** (1931) — the bought-in movement of the first series. - **Calibre 822** (1991) — built for the Grande Taille case and still the workhorse behind many models, including the enamel Tributes. - **Calibre 101** (1929) — the smallest mechanical movement ever put into series production, used in jewellery Reversos. - **Calibre 185** (2021) — the most complicated movement ever fitted to a Reverso. - **Calibres 953 and 834** (2025) — a new minute repeater, and world time in a rectangle. All 37 documented here, chapter by chapter, are on the [calibres page](https://myreversostory.com/calibres). ## Common questions ### What is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso? A rectangular wristwatch whose case slides out of its cradle and turns over 180 degrees, hiding the glass behind a solid back. It was patented in Paris on 4 March 1931. ### Why does the Reverso turn over? To protect the crystal. British army officers playing polo in India kept breaking their watch glasses, and a case that could be flipped face-down during a match solved it. ### What does the name Reverso mean? Reverso is Latin for “I turn around”. ### Who invented the Reverso? The slide-and-flip mechanism was invented by the French designer René-Alfred Chauvot, for a project brought by César de Trey and taken up by Jacques-David LeCoultre and the Paris firm of Edmond Jaeger. ### How many calibres have been made for the Reverso? Around fifty, from the bought-in Tavannes 064 of 1931 to cal. 953 and cal. 834 in 2025. ### Can the back of a Reverso be personalised? Yes. The solid back has carried initials, crests, portraits and enamel since the 1930s, and Jaeger-LeCoultre still engraves and lacquers case backs for owners today. More answers are on the [Reverso FAQ](https://myreversostory.com/faq); terms such as grand feu, gadroon and pièce unique are defined in the [glossary](https://myreversostory.com/glossary). My Reverso Story is an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Facts on this page are drawn from the archive's history, models and calibres pages, which cite their sources entry by entry. References and piece counts vary by market and source. Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/faq Summary: When the Reverso was invented and why it flips, Duoface vs Duetto, the families, the calibres and engraving the back: each answered in a sentence or two. Updated: 2026-09-30 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Reference # Reverso questions, answered. The questions collectors and newcomers ask most, each answered in its first sentence, with a link to the page that tells the rest. By the My Reverso Story curators · Updated 30 September 2026 ## The watch ### What is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso? A rectangular wristwatch whose case slides out of its cradle and turns over 180 degrees, hiding the glass behind a solid back. See [What is the Reverso?](https://myreversostory.com/what-is-the-reverso) ### When was the Reverso invented? 1931. The patent was registered in Paris on 4 March 1931 as French patent 712,868; a Swiss patent, 159,982, followed a year later. ### Who invented the Reverso? René-Alfred Chauvot, a French designer, invented the slide-and-flip mechanism. César de Trey brought the problem from India and registered the name, and Jacques-David LeCoultre and the Paris firm of Edmond Jaeger took the watch into production. ### Why does the Reverso flip over? To protect the glass. British army officers playing polo in India broke their watch crystals so often that they asked for a watch that could be covered or turned over during a match. ### What does “Reverso” mean? “I turn around”, in Latin. ### Was the first Reverso powered by a Jaeger-LeCoultre movement? No. The first Reversos ran on the Tavannes calibre 064, often signed “Lisica”, in cases made by A.E. Wenger of Geneva. LeCoultre's own rectangular calibres 410 and 411 arrived in 1933, and the Jaeger-LeCoultre name itself dates from the 1937 merger. ### Was the Reverso ever discontinued? Yes. Production of the vintage Reverso ended around 1947–48, and the watch was out of the catalogue for more than twenty years. It returned after 1972, when the Italian distributor Giorgio Corvo bought 200 forgotten steel cases, and was back in the catalogue from 1975. The [history page](https://myreversostory.com/history) tells the whole story. ## Models ### What is a Reverso Duoface? A Reverso with a second dial on the back, introduced in 1994. The back shows a second time zone, and one movement drives both faces. ### What is the difference between a Duoface and a Duetto? The Duoface shows two time zones; the Duetto, introduced in 1997 for women, shows a discreet dial for day on the front and a more decorative one for evening on the back. Both use one movement for two faces. ### What was the first Reverso with a complication? The 60ème of 1991, made for the Reverso's sixtieth anniversary. It added a power reserve and a date, and was the first Reverso with a sapphire display back. ### What are the Reverso families today? Classic, Tribute and One. Jaeger-LeCoultre set these three families at SIHH 2016, and almost everything sold since descends from them. Every documented model is on the [models page](https://myreversostory.com/models). ### What is the most complicated Reverso? The Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 Quadriptyque of 2021: the first wristwatch with four working display faces, eleven complications and twelve patents. ### How many movements have been made for the Reverso? Around fifty calibres since 1931. 37 of them are described on the [calibres page](https://myreversostory.com/calibres). ### How many limited editions of the Reverso are there? This archive lists 117 limited, market and anniversary editions so far, with references and piece counts where the record supports them: see the [limited editions page](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions). The list is not complete. ## The back ### Can you engrave the back of a Reverso? Yes. The solid back has carried engravings since the 1930s, and Jaeger-LeCoultre still engraves, lacquers and enamels case backs for owners. The [engraving guide](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) collects what collectors in this archive did. ### How long does it take to engrave a Reverso? In the cases documented here, from several weeks to about three months. [Paul Stewart's portrait engraving](https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait) took about three months in all, from the first mock-ups to the finished watch. ### Can an independent engraver do the work? It can, but on a new watch collectors here left it to the manufacture. In [one documented case](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul) the jeweller who designed the engraving preferred that Jaeger-LeCoultre cut it, so there would be no issue with the watch or its warranty. ### What was the first enamelled Reverso? The earliest documented enamel Reverso dates from 1936: a portrait believed to show an Indian maharani. See [the “Maharani” Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso). ### What is a pièce unique? A watch made for one person, engraved or enamelled by the manufacture's own hands. This archive documents 49 of them on the [Stories page](https://myreversostory.com/stories). ### Which famous people are connected with a Reverso? Pieces in this archive were made for, or commemorate, [King Edward VIII](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/edward-viii-reverso), [Amelia Earhart](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso), [General Douglas MacArthur](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso), [Prince Aage of Denmark](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso) and [the Maharaja of Jaipur](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharaja-of-jaipur-reverso), among others. ## This archive ### Is My Reverso Story affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre? No. It is an independent, fan-made archive built by and for Reverso collectors, not endorsed or operated by Jaeger-LeCoultre. See [About My Reverso Story](https://myreversostory.com/about). ### How do I add my Reverso to the archive? Use the form at the [foot of the home page](https://myreversostory.com/#submit): your name, email, photos of the front and back, and the story. Every submission is read by hand before it appears, and your email is never published. My Reverso Story is an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Answers are drawn from the archive's own history, models, calibres and collector pages. References and piece counts vary by market and source; verify before relying on them. Still Curious? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/engraving Summary: Initials, portraits, landmarks and lacquered names: how collectors personalised the back of their Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, the process and the timelines. Updated: 2026-09-30 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Guide # Personalising the back of a Reverso. What collectors in this archive put on the second face of their watch, how the work was done, and how long it took — in their own words, story by story. Yes, the back of a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso can be personalised: engraved, lacquered or enamelled. Collectors in this archive have had the manufacture put initials, portraits, patterns, landmarks and names on the case back, and the documented work took from several weeks to about three months. By the My Reverso Story curators · Updated 30 September 2026 · Drawn from 19 personalised collector stories ## Why the Reverso has a blank back The Reverso was invented in 1931 to protect its glass on the polo field: the case turns over, and a solid metal back takes the knocks. That back was engineered only to survive impact, but owners saw a canvas in it within a few years. Every Reverso still leaves the workshop with its back blank, which means no two ever have to end up the same. ## What collectors put on the back The personalised Reversos in this archive fall into a handful of kinds. Each links to the owner's full story. | Kind | On the back | Story | | --- | --- | --- | | A family initial | The last-name initial, so the watch can pass to a son | [Randy Kamin](https://myreversostory.com/stories/randy-kamin-first-reverso) | | Initials | The owner's own initials, added six years after purchase | [Farhan Hussain](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-son) | | A child's name | A daughter's name in lacquered lettering, ordered a week after her birth | [Farhan Hussain](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter) | | Initials and a birth date | A first child's initials and birth date, promised on a honeymoon | [@decowatches](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son) | | A family portrait | A great-great-grandfather, from a sketch by the Russian Impressionist Leonid Pasternak | [Paul Stewart](https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait) | | A figure of faith | The Gujarati saint Jalaram Bapa, in enamel and engraving | [Roni Madhvani](https://myreversostory.com/stories/roni-jalaram) | | A pattern | A fleur-de-lis design, since repeated with small variations on four Reversos in the same collection | [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving) | | A city, told privately | Istanbul as tea, simit, seagulls and the Galata Tower, not a postcard skyline | [Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul) | | An artwork | Lee Lawrie's *Wisdom* from 30 Rockefeller Plaza, with its inscription | [Taylor Wos](https://myreversostory.com/stories/taylor-wos-wisdom) | | A passion | A 1964 Gibson ES-335 guitar and Art Deco initials, in lacquered engraving | [@decowatches](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson) | | An institution, abstracted | A university's green and gold as an Art Deco floral motif, not a logo | [A DC Watch Enthusiast](https://myreversostory.com/stories/george-mason-flower) | | A commission | His own engraving in place of a limited edition's planned enamel painting | [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-goodbye-wave) | | A historic signature | A 1930s back engraved with a diplomat's signature and the date 29·X·934 | [Sarp Vahabi](https://myreversostory.com/stories/sarp-titulescu) | ## How the process worked No two commissions here ran the same way, but the documented ones share a sequence: 1. **Settle the idea.** Several owners waited: one couple wore their new watch blank for months until the right idea came; another owner waited years. 2. **Bring reference material.** One collector photographed a family sketch, plus a second shot framing the detail to use; another brought a pattern found online; a third had a jeweller design three options. 3. **See mock-ups.** Working from the photographs, Jaeger-LeCoultre came back with a couple of mock-ups showing how the portrait would fit the small rectangle. 4. **Approve and hand over the watch.** The watch goes to Switzerland; for a new watch the boutique sends it once a piece is available. 5. **Inspect the result.** One owner found a small section of stippling unfinished a month after delivery; the watch went back to Switzerland and returned complete. Sources: [the portrait engraving](https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait), [the fleur-de-lis engraving](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving), [the Istanbul engraving](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul), [the lacquered name](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter). ## How long it took | Commission | Documented time | | --- | --- | | [Fleur-de-lis pattern adapted to the rectangle](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving) | Several weeks; a second, quick trip back to finish a missing section | | [Portrait from a family sketch](https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait) | About three months in all, including mock-ups and approval | | [A daughter's name in lacquer](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter) | Ordered January 2022; the watch first had to become available, then went to Switzerland | | [Enamel and engraved portrait](https://myreversostory.com/stories/roni-jalaram) | Around four decades ago, when requests travelled between Uganda and Switzerland without email | ## Engraving, lacquer and enamel **Engraving** cuts the design into the metal; most personalised backs here are engraved. **Lacquer** adds colour: one collector chose lacquered lettering for a daughter's name, another a lacquered engraving of a guitar. **Enamel** is the rarest choice. One collector asked for an enamel portrait of Jalaram Bapa and received a combination of enamel and engraving instead, and came to love it more than the portrait first imagined. Metal matters too. The same pattern cut into different metals comes out subtly different, because each responds differently under the engraver's hand — which is how one collector's four fleur-de-lis backs each ended up unique. ## Keeping a design your own A design can stay yours. Jaeger-LeCoultre told one collector that a fleur-de-lis engraving would be reserved for that collector’s watches, and when a second request for the same pattern reached the engraving department, the work was stopped until the manufacture confirmed the client was the same person ([the story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-my-engraving)). The manufacture also said no when a request went too far: the same collector asked for “Piece Unique” to be engraved on a commissioned watch, and it declined ([the story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-goodbye-wave)). ## Manufacture or independent engraver? On a new watch, the collectors here had the manufacture do the cutting. When the Istanbul jeweller Sevan Bıçakçı agreed to design an engraving for a new steel Reverso, he preferred that Jaeger-LeCoultre carry it out, so that there would be no issue with the watch or its warranty — and he designed it himself instead ([the story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul)). ## Choosing what goes on the back Advice that recurs across these stories, in the collectors' own terms: - **Avoid the postcard.** One couple ruled out every famous landmark and chose the everyday memory instead: tea, simit and seagulls by the Bosphorus. - **Take a detail, not the whole.** Rather than reproduce a full sketch, one collector chose the part showing his ancestor. - **Think about who inherits it.** Initials, a family initial and a child's name recur because the watch is meant to be handed down. - **Subtle can be more personal.** One owner turned a university's colours into an Art Deco floral motif rather than engrave its logo, so that to anyone else it is simply decorative art. - **Waiting is fine.** More than one owner wore the watch blank until the right idea arrived. ## The first engraved Reversos Personalising the back is as old as the watch. Pièces uniques in this archive show it happening within the first few years: - [The Balbo Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso) (1933), commemorating Italo Balbo's transatlantic formation flight. - [Prince Aage of Denmark's Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso) (1934). - [The Amelia Earhart Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso) (1935), engraved with a map reading MEXICO–NEW YORK. - [The “Maharani” Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso) (1936), the first documented enamel. - [The Edward VIII Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/edward-viii-reverso) (1937), engraved for a coronation that never took place. All 49 documented pièces uniques are on the [Stories page](https://myreversostory.com/stories). ## Common questions ### Can you engrave the back of a Reverso? Yes. The solid back was engraved from the 1930s on, and Jaeger-LeCoultre still engraves, lacquers and enamels case backs for owners today. ### How long does engraving a Reverso take? In the cases documented here, from several weeks to about three months. One collector’s portrait engraving took about three months in all, from mock-ups to the finished watch. ### Does Jaeger-LeCoultre show a design before engraving? In the documented cases, yes: working from a collector’s photographs, the manufacture came back with a couple of mock-ups showing how the image could fit the rectangular back. ### Where is the engraving done? At the manufacture in Switzerland. Collectors ordered through their boutique, and the watch travelled to Switzerland for the work. ### Can an engraving design be kept exclusive? In one documented case the manufacture promised a collector’s pattern would not be reproduced for anyone else, and stopped a second request until it confirmed the order came from the same client. ### Should a new Reverso be engraved by an independent engraver? Collectors here left it to the manufacture. In one case the jeweller who designed the engraving preferred Jaeger-LeCoultre to cut it, so there would be no issue with the watch or its warranty. ### Can you replace a factory enamel back with your own engraving? It has happened. For one collector, Jaeger-LeCoultre withdrew one of eight pieces of a limited enamel edition and engraved the collector’s own design on the back instead of the planned painting. My Reverso Story is an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. This guide summarises what the collectors in this archive experienced; it is not the manufacture's policy, and options, timings and prices can differ. Ask your boutique for current details. Share Yours ## What's on the back of yours? If your Reverso carries an engraving, an enamel, a monogram, or a story about how it reached you, it belongs in this archive. [Share Your Story](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/glossary Summary: Duoface, Duetto, gadroons, cradle, grand feu, guilloché, pièce unique, Quadriptyque: the words of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, each briefly defined. Updated: 2026-09-30 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Reference # The words of the Reverso. From the cradle to the Quadriptyque: 36 terms used across this archive, each defined in a sentence or two. By the My Reverso Story curators · Updated 30 September 2026 ### 60ème (Soixantième) The Reverso made for the watch's sixtieth anniversary in 1991: the first Reverso with a complication (power reserve and date) and the first with a sapphire display back. It opened a series of six 500-piece anniversary complications. ### Calibre 101 Jaeger-LeCoultre's smallest movement, introduced in 1929 and still made: 98 parts weighing about a fifth of a gram, the smallest mechanical movement ever put into series production. It powers the jewellery Reversos, where the winding crown moves to the back. ### Calibre 822 The hand-wound rectangular movement built in 1991 for the Grande Taille case and drawn in the spirit of the 1930s calibre 410. It still powers many Reversos, including the enamel Tributes. ### Case back The reverse of the watch case. On a Reverso it is the face that turns outward when the case is flipped, which is why it carries engravings, enamel or a second dial. ### Cloisonné enamel Enamel laid into small cells formed by fine metal wires, each cell holding one colour. The cloisonné Reverso dials of the 1940s and 1950s documented here carry the numbering of the Geneva dial maker Stern Frères. ### Cradle The fixed frame of the Reverso, attached to the strap, in which the case slides and turns. Some pieces carry a display inside the cradle itself, such as the Triptyque and the Quadriptyque. ### Duetto The women's two-faced Reverso, introduced in 1997: a discreet dial for day on the front and a more decorative one for evening on the back, one movement driving both. ### Duoface A Reverso with a dial on each side, introduced in 1994: local time on the front, a second time zone on the back, from one movement. ### Duoplan LeCoultre's finest shaped movement of the early 1930s. It was too thick for the Reverso, one reason the first series used a bought-in Tavannes movement. ### Gadroons (godrons) The three stepped ribs above and below the Reverso's dial, added between the 1931 patent and the first production watches. The squarer Reverso II of 1982–83 is almost the only Reverso made without them. ### Grand feu enamel Vitreous enamel, powdered glass fused to metal in a kiln, applied and fired layer by layer. The Hokusai enamel backs are built from around fourteen fired layers, roughly 100 hours per watch. ### Grande Taille The larger Reverso case introduced in 1991 to give the complications room, with calibre 822. It stayed in production until 2016. ### Guilloché A pattern of fine engraved lines cut into a dial or case with a hand-operated rose engine. Under translucent enamel it gives depth and light, as on the Tribute Enamel dials. ### Gyrotourbillon Jaeger-LeCoultre's multi-axis tourbillon. The Reverso Gyrotourbillon 2 of 2008 was the first wristwatch with a cylindrical hairspring; the smaller calibre 179 of 2016 made it flying. ### Hybris Artistica Jaeger-LeCoultre's programme, running since 2012, that hands a grand complication to the rare-crafts atelier, so mechanism and decoration share one watch. ### Hybris Mechanica Jaeger-LeCoultre's programme for its most extreme mechanics, running since 2006: three and four working faces, spherical and multi-axis tourbillons, striking movements. Its Calibre 185 Quadriptyque of 2021 is the most complicated Reverso ever made. ### Lacquered engraving Coloured lacquer applied to the case back, often filling engraved lines. Collectors in this archive chose lacquered lettering for a daughter's name and a lacquered engraving for a guitar with Art Deco initials. ### Lisica The signature found on many bought-in movements of the first Reversos, including the Tavannes calibre 064. ### Métiers Rares Jaeger-LeCoultre's atelier of rare crafts: grand feu enamel, miniature painting, guillochage, paillonnage and gem-setting. Its enamel series are catalogued piece by piece on the Stories page. ### Miniature enamel painting Painting in enamel at very small scale. On a Reverso back a canvas of over a square metre can be reproduced on about two square centimetres, in roughly 80 hours. ### Monoface A Reverso with a single dial and a solid back. ### Nonantième French for “ninetieth”. The Reverso Tribute Nonantième of 2021 marked ninety years of the Reverso, with a jumping digital hour, a minute disc and a day/night indicator on its back. ### One (Reverso One) The women's Reverso family set in 2016: a slim 2:1 rectangle echoing the narrow ladies' Reversos of the 1930s. ### Paillonnage Thin metal foil laid beneath translucent enamel to catch the light; the Turner series uses strips of silver foil to make the water glint. ### Pièce unique A one-of-a-kind watch made for a single owner, engraved or enamelled by the manufacture. This archive documents 49, from the 1933 [Balbo Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso) to modern commissions. ### Quadriptyque The Reverso Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 of 2021: the first wristwatch with four working display faces, eleven complications and twelve patents. ### Reverso Latin for “I turn around”: Jaeger-LeCoultre's rectangular watch whose case turns over in its cradle, patented on 4 March 1931. See [What is the Reverso?](https://myreversostory.com/what-is-the-reverso) ### Reverso à Éclipses A Reverso with a miniature shutter over the case back, opened by a wheel beside the crown, that conceals a painted enamel beneath. ### Reverso Classic The modern entry family set in 2016, in three sizes, each as Monoface, Duoface or Duetto. ### Reverso II The squarer, mostly quartz relaunch of 1982–83 for the manufacture's 150th anniversary, almost the only Reverso without gadroons. Its shape returned in the Squadra. ### Reverso Tribute The heritage family set in 2016, closest in detail to the 1930s watches, with in-house calibres. ### Spécialités Horlogères The Lausanne company founded by César de Trey and Jacques-David LeCoultre to sell the Reverso; in 1937 it became the sales arm of the merged Jaeger-LeCoultre. ### Squadra The square Reverso family of 2006–2012, whose proportions came from René-Alfred Chauvot's original 1931 drawings of a square case. ### Staybrite The stainless steel of early Reverso cases, advertised in 1940 as “absolutely stainless, and of a hardness proof against any test”. ### Tavannes calibre 064 The bought-in movement of the first Reversos (1931–1933), used because no LeCoultre movement fitted the rectangle. ### Triptyque The Reverso Grande Complication à Triptyque of 2006: the first watch with three dials driven by one movement, the third set into the cradle, showing civil, sidereal and perpetual time. My Reverso Story is an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Reverso-specific definitions are drawn from the archive's history, models and calibres pages; the general watchmaking terms are given in their plain, standard sense. Keep Reading ## What is the Reverso? The watch that turns over, from the polo field of 1930 to the four-faced Quadriptyque. [Read the Overview](https://myreversostory.com/what-is-the-reverso) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/history Summary: From a cracked polo crystal in 1930s India to the four-faced Quadriptyque: the Reverso patent of 1931, the long silence, the 1972 rescue and the complications. Updated: 2026-09-30 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. History & Heritage # It began because something broke. Ninety-five years of one idea: that a watch could turn its back on the world. What follows is the whole arc — the polo field, the patent, the decades of silence, the drawer full of forgotten cases, and the four-faced watch at the end of it. 1930 The Winter of 1930–31 · British India ## A cracked crystal, and a dare. César de Trey sold false teeth. Born in Switzerland in 1876, he had worked in America before building a substantial business in Britain supplying dentists with everything from dentures to X-ray apparatus. He left the dental trade in 1927 and moved into watch distribution. Good timing: by 1930 wristwatches accounted for half of all Swiss watch exports, up from a quarter a decade earlier. His first venture distributed Movado's Ermeto purse watch, whose case wound the movement as it opened and closed. He named the company *Hermetica*, after his preoccupation: protecting the most fragile part of a watch, its glass. Travelling in India in 1930, he fell in among British army officers for whom polo was not a pastime but a way of life, and whose watch crystals rarely survived a match. Mineral glass was standard then. Acrylic wouldn't be widely used until the 1940s. So the glass didn't chip — it shattered. Knowing he had moved from dentures into watches, the officers asked whether a watch could be made that might be covered, or even turned over, to protect the glass during a game. The horological historian Manfred Fritz records the moment plainly: the words *turn over* stuck in their Swiss guest's mind “like an arrow in its target.” De Trey registered the name Reverso himself, soon afterwards. There had to be a better mousetrap. 1931 4 March 1931, 1:15 pm · INPI, Paris ## “A watch capable of sliding in its support and being completely turned over.” De Trey took the problem to Gustave Delage, a celebrated naval pilot turned businessman and a partner in the Paris firm of Edmond Jaeger, which made instruments for aircraft and cars and had worked with LeCoultre in Le Sentier for years. Jaeger contracted a French designer, René-Alfred Chauvot, who invented the actual slide-and-flip mechanism. De Trey moved fast: the patent was filed within weeks of that meeting. Chauvot's patent was registered in Paris on 4 March 1931 as French patent 712,868; a Swiss patent, 159,982, followed a year later. To sell it, de Trey and Jacques-David LeCoultre founded a distribution company in Lausanne, Spécialités Horlogères. In June 1937 that company would become the sales arm of a newly merged manufacture, Jaeger-LeCoultre. They named the watch *Reverso*. Latin: *I turn around*. Chauvot's original drawings show a *square* case with a square dial. Seventy-five years later those same drawings would be pulled from the archive, overscaled, and turned into the Reverso Squadra. Between the patent and the first production watches the case grew longer, and a trio of *godrons* (the stepped gadroon ribs) was added top and bottom, elongating the proportions toward something close to the Golden Section and drawing the eye to the large plane of the glass. Many early models dropped numerals altogether for baton indices and sword hands. Visiting the factory, the regional prefect of the Jura compared these watches to *“Greek statues”*. 1931–33 The Awkward Secret ## The first Reversos ran on somebody else's movement. Here is the detail that rarely makes the brochures. Jaeger-LeCoultre was a movement manufacturer *par excellence*, and it had nothing that fitted. Its round calibres were too small for Chauvot's rectangle; the famous Duoplan was too thick. So the earliest Reversos were fitted with the Tavannes calibre 064, often signed “Lisica”, in cases built by the Geneva maker A.E. Wenger. Only final assembly happened at Le Sentier. It is why the very first dials say nothing but *Reverso*: no Jaeger, no LeCoultre, because there was no LeCoultre movement inside to claim. In 1932 came a second tier, the *De Luxe*, fitted with a synthetic sapphire crystal, among the earliest known uses of sapphire in a commercial wristwatch. The watch invented because glass shattered had begun solving the problem at the source. Only from 1933 did LeCoultre have its own rectangular movement — and it arrived as two at once: the calibre 410 with small seconds, and the 411 with a sweeping centre seconds. 1933–1949 The Unplanned Consequence ## Nobody designed the back to be beautiful. The reverse plate existed for one reason: to be hit. It was flat, anonymous steel, engineered to absorb a mallet. And then owners looked at it and saw something else entirely. By 1933 a Reverso was engraved to commemorate Italo Balbo's transatlantic formation flight to the Chicago World's Fair. In 1934 a Danish prince serving in the French Foreign Legion wrote from Algiers to say his had survived southern Morocco. In 1935 one was engraved with a map reading MEXICO–NEW YORK for Amelia Earhart. In 1936 came the first documented enamel: the portrait of an Indian woman, believed to be a maharani, whose name has never been recovered. In 1937 a Reverso was engraved with a crown, EDWARD VIII, and the date of a coronation that never took place. The armour had become a canvas. Nobody planned it; everybody adopted it. [Read the Stories Behind the Engraved Pieces](https://myreversostory.com/stories) 1948–1972 The Long Silence ## Then it simply stopped. Production of the vintage Reverso ran to roughly 1947–48 and then ended. Postwar taste turned to round, tool-inspired watches; the Art Deco rectangle that had defined a decade began to look like a relic of one. For more than twenty years the Reverso was out of the catalogue entirely. Then in 1969 the first commercial quartz wristwatch arrived, and Swiss mechanical watchmaking entered the deepest crisis of its century. A forgotten rectangular dress watch from the 1930s was about as far from anyone's priorities as a product could be. 24 — Years out of production 0 — Reversos in the catalogue 1972 A Drawer in Le Sentier ## Two hundred empty cases, and one stubborn Italian. It started with a phone call. Léon Constantin, just back from Milan, rang the general manager's office to ask how many Reversos were still in stock. The manager was out; a secretary took the message. The answer came back the same day: 200 steel cases, no movements. Days later Giorgio Corvo called from Milan. Corvo was Jaeger-LeCoultre's sole representative for Italy, then the most trend-setting watch market in the world, where what sold in Milan, Rome or Turin sold everywhere. His message was one line: *I'll take them all.* Le Sentier could not believe it. They rang his Milan office **three times** to confirm the order was serious. Each time he said yes. Then they tried to talk him out of it: the 9- and 11-line movements were long out of production, and in 1972, with quartz arriving from Japan and the whole Swiss industry reeling, restarting anything was unthinkable. So Corvo solved it himself. He took the oval calibre 840 from the Ovetto, had a Milanese watchmaker build a spacer to seat the oval movement inside the rectangular case, and brought the result back to Switzerland as a demonstration that it could be done. They agreed — on the condition that this was the end of it. “We do this 200 pieces, but then we don't want to hear about this any more.” A new dial was drawn for the run, in white or grey, signed LeCoultre: one hundred of each. They sold out in a month. 1975–1985 Rebuilt From the Case Outward ## It looked untouched. It was entirely new. Back in the catalogue from 1975, the Reverso got a full relaunch in 1982–83 for the manufacture's 150th anniversary: the squarer, mostly quartz *Reverso II*, notable for being almost the only Reverso ever made without the three-line gadroon motif. Buyers wanted the rectangle back, and said so. The real work was happening elsewhere. Engineer Daniel Wild spent five years re-engineering the case to modern standards without altering its silhouette by a millimetre, not a facelift so much as, in Foulkes' phrase, multiple major organ transplantation that left the watch mechanically unrecognisable and visually unchanged. The critical change was the guidance system. Technical designer Christophe Crétin: *“Instead of having a simple pin in a groove, it was replaced by a skid system: a skate with an eagle tail shape, which returns inside the cradle, where it cannot be disengaged.”* Inside, a “guard ring” (effectively a second case) now held the movement, screwed to the case top by four sealed beryllium screws with a flat seal compressed between. That is how a watch whose whole purpose was to come loose from its cradle became water-resistant. It also had to be built in-house. The investment, skill and tooling required were beyond outside suppliers, and since the Reverso is rectangular, JLC needed milling machines when the market sold mainly CNC lathes. So they commissioned CNC machines built specifically for the Reverso from a firm in La Chaux-de-Fonds. ≈30 — Parts, 1931 case 50+ — Parts, 1985 case 0mm — Change in silhouette 1991–2000 Six Watches, 500 Pieces Each ## The decade the back started doing things. The 60ème of 1991 was the hinge. It brought the first complication (power reserve and date) and, after sixty years of blank steel, the first sapphire display back. It also opened a series: roughly one new complication every two years, each in a 500-piece limited edition. Tourbillon in 1993. Minute repeater in 1994, the world's first rectangular repeater movement, because gongs want to be circles and almost nobody else would take the problem on. Retrograde chronograph in 1996. Géographique world time in 1998. Perpetual calendar in 2000. And in 1994, the one that changed the definition of the watch: the *Duoface*. A second dial on the back showing a second time zone, driven by the same single movement as the front. The reverse was no longer decoration or armour. It was a display. Local time on one face. Home time on the other. One gear train doing both. [Explore the Calibres](https://myreversostory.com/calibres) 2006–2021 Three Faces, Then Four ## Because nobody had done it. For its 75th birthday in 2006, the Reverso became the first watch in history with three dials driven by a single movement: front, back, and a third display set into the cradle itself. The Grande Complication à Triptyque showed civil, sidereal and perpetual time at once, with a tourbillon and an equation of time. Seventy-five pieces. Six patents. In 2008 the Gyrotourbillon 2 put a spherical, multi-axis tourbillon into the rectangle (inner carriage turning once every 18.75 seconds, outer once a minute) and became the first wristwatch to run a cylindrical hairspring. It took first *and* second place at the 2009 International Chronometry Competition. Then in 2021, for the 90th: the Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 Quadriptyque. Four functioning display faces, a world first, carrying eleven complications, including three separate lunar cycles displayed inside the cradle. Twelve patents. 4 — Display faces 11 — Complications 12 — Patents Today Still Turning ## Every case still leaves the workshop blank. In 2016 the collection was rationalised into three families (Classic, Tribute and One) and almost everything sold today descends from that reset. In 2025 Jaeger-LeCoultre returned to its own origin story with a “1931 Polo Club” theme, brought world time back to the Reverso for the first time since 1998, and built an entirely new minute-repeater movement earning seven patents. In 2026 it completed an eight-watch cycle of Hokusai waterfalls in grand feu enamel, roughly a hundred hours of work apiece. Ninety-five years, around fifty calibres, and one unchanged proposition. The front of the watch is made in Switzerland. The back is still, deliberately, left for you. [The Models](https://myreversostory.com/models) [Share Your Story](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/about Summary: An independent Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso archive with two sides: collectors’ own stories, and a reference to its models, calibres and editions. Updated: 2026-10-24 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. About My Reverso Story # Built by collectors, for collectors. Like a Reverso, this archive has two sides: the stories collectors tell, and a reference for everything Reverso. Experience ## My Reverso Story Two sides, like the watch: the stories collectors tell, and a reference for everything Reverso; then what the crest means: a horse, two polo mallets, a loupe and a quill, inside an Art Deco shield. My Reverso Story is an independent, fan-made archive of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, built by and for its collectors. Like the watch, it has two sides: the stories collectors tell about their own Reversos, and a reference for everything Reverso. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Jaeger-LeCoultre. Updated 24 October 2026 ## Two sides, like the watch **The stories.** Collectors write about their own watches in their own words: how a Reverso reached them, what is engraved or enamelled on its back, and why it matters. Every story is told by the watch’s owner. Read them in [Stories](https://myreversostory.com/stories) and meet their owners in [Collectors](https://myreversostory.com/collectors). **The reference.** Alongside the stories, the archive gathers what is known about the Reverso itself: the [models](https://myreversostory.com/models) made since 1931, the [calibres](https://myreversostory.com/calibres) inside them, [limited, market and anniversary editions](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions), [pièces uniques, commemorative editions and artistic series](https://myreversostory.com/stories), and the watch’s [heritage](https://myreversostory.com/history). ## What the archive holds | Section | Entries | Where | | --- | --- | --- | | Collector stories, told by their owners | 43 from 20 collectors | [Stories](https://myreversostory.com/stories), [Collectors](https://myreversostory.com/collectors) | | Pièces uniques, made for one person | 49 | [Stories](https://myreversostory.com/stories) | | Artistic and commemorative series | 25 sets, 149 pieces | [Stories](https://myreversostory.com/stories) | | Commemorative editions | 32 | [Stories](https://myreversostory.com/stories) | | Limited, market and anniversary editions | 117 | [Limited Editions](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions) | | Models, 1931 to today | 54 | [Models](https://myreversostory.com/models) | | Calibres | 37 | [Calibres](https://myreversostory.com/calibres) | ## How collector stories are published Every collector story is submitted by the watch's owner through the form on the [home page](https://myreversostory.com/#submit), with photos of the front and the back. Each submission is read by hand before it appears on the site; nothing is published automatically. The stories are the owners' own first-person accounts, entered by the site's curators from what collectors send in. Email addresses are never published and are used only to reach the owner about the submission. ## Where the facts come from Historical notes are drawn from public reporting on the watch's history and innovations since 1931. Entries name their sources where a specific claim needs one: auction catalogues such as Artcurial's 2011 Jaeger-LeCoultre sale, collector references such as Basha's guide to Jaeger-LeCoultre, and the press coverage linked on each series page. References, piece counts and other details vary by market and source, and some are still unverified; the pages say so where it matters. Verify before relying on them. ## Corrections and additions If you own or can document a piece, spot an error, or have a missing reference or photo, [get in touch through the form](https://myreversostory.com/#submit). Corrections are read by the same people who read every submission. ## For search engines and AI assistants Every page is served as complete HTML. A plain-text overview is at [/llms.txt](https://myreversostory.com/llms.txt) and the full text of the archive at [/llms-full.txt](https://myreversostory.com/llms-full.txt); most pages also have a Markdown version at the same address ending in `.md`. New collector stories are announced in the [RSS feed](https://myreversostory.com/rss.xml). Jaeger-LeCoultre and Reverso are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the watches discussed. Add Yours ## The stories aren't finished. If your Reverso carries an engraving, an enamel, a monogram, or a story about how it reached you, it belongs here. [Share Your Story](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-goodbye-wave Summary: Mitch fell in love with one side of a Reverso and couldn’t live with the other. So he asked Jaeger-LeCoultre a question they don’t usually say yes to — and… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # Goodbye, Wave Mitch fell in love with one side of a Reverso and couldn’t live with the other. So he asked Jaeger-LeCoultre a question they don’t usually say yes to — and one of only eight became something else entirely. Experience ## Goodbye, Wave Eight watches, one blue dial, and a question the manufacture does not usually answer with yes. Reverso Tribute Enamel — Hokusai, unique commission · 2018 In 2018, Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced three extraordinary Reverso Tribute Enamel watches. Each carried a miniature reproduction of a famous work of art on its reverse: Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa, horses inspired by Xu Beihong, and Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Only eight of each were to be made. The paintings were beautifully executed but they weren’t what I fell in love with, it was the dials: one was white, another green, and the third an extraordinary blue. The blue and green versions combined a guilloché lozenge pattern with translucent grand feu enamel, creating a depth that is almost impossible to capture in a photograph, and I wanted that blue dial. There was only one problem: on the other side was Hokusai’s Wave. I have nothing against Hokusai. I enjoy Japanese ukiyo-e and even own several original prints by Hiroshige. But The Great Wave has become so reproduced, on posters, mugs, shirts, souvenirs and seemingly everything else, that I no longer felt any personal connection to the image. And a Reverso, especially one like this, should feel personal. I couldn’t justify buying the watch simply because I loved one side while wishing the other side were different. So I asked a question I didn’t really expect Jaeger-LeCoultre to say yes to: could I have the blue dial without the Wave? A couple of weeks later, they said yes, they were willing to remove one of the eight blue pieces from the planned production. Everything about the watch would remain the same, except the reverse would carry my engraving. I had to go one step further and asked whether they would also engrave Piece Unique on it, but this time they said no. Fair enough, but I had to try! I had fallen in love with one half of a Reverso and had been given the opportunity to make the other half my own. Of all the watches I have owned, this remains one of the hardest to photograph. No picture quite captures the depth of that blue enamel dial. Some watches really do have to be seen. And some have to become yours before they feel complete. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**Reverso Tribute Enamel — Hokusai**Series · the Hokusai enamels](https://myreversostory.com/series/hokusai)[**Famous Artists**Series · Hokusai, Xu Beihong, Seurat](https://myreversostory.com/series/famous-artists)[**Hokusai “Waterfalls”, final four**Models · 2026](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-hokusai-2026) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/randy-kamin-first-reverso Summary: The very first JLC Randy ever bought is already written into his will — engraved with the family initial, and meant for his son one day. It turned out to be… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Randy Kamin # My Baby The very first JLC Randy ever bought is already written into his will — engraved with the family initial, and meant for his son one day. It turned out to be the start of a collection nineteen watches deep, and counting. Experience ## My Baby One Reverso, one engraved initial, and a line in a will. The first of twenty. Reverso This is the very first JLC watch I ever bought. It’s my baby. I had it engraved with my last name initial so I can pass it down to my son. It’s in my will to do so. Subsequently, I’ve bought nineteen more JLCs and an Atmos clock, many of which have been Reversos. ### About [Randy Kamin](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/randy-kamin) More From This Collection [**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul Summary: Edi and Deni wanted an engraving that meant something, not a postcard — no bridge, no mosque, no obvious skyline. Istanbul jeweler Sevan Bıçakçı turned a… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli # Our Istanbul Edi and Deni wanted an engraving that meant something, not a postcard — no bridge, no mosque, no obvious skyline. Istanbul jeweler Sevan Bıçakçı turned a conversation about tea, simit, and seagulls by the Bosphorus into three tiny works of art, and one of them became theirs. Experience ## Our Istanbul A green dial, a blank steel reverse, and a question from an Istanbul jeweller: not what do you want on it — but what do you actually remember? Reverso Tribute Monoface, green dial · 2022 By 2021, we had already decided on the Nonantième, but that same year Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced another Reverso that immediately caught our attention: the steel Reverso Tribute Monoface with a green dial. I have always had a thing for green dials. Green is probably my favorite color, and there was something particularly beautiful about the shade Jaeger-LeCoultre had chosen for this watch. Deni and I also wanted a Monoface in our collection because, after the Duoface and the much more complicated Nonantième, there was something appealing about having a simpler, more classical Reverso. We knew from the beginning that we wanted to engrave the reverse, but we didn’t know what should go there. Jaeger-LeCoultre had told us they could create an engraving for us, and we wanted to use the opportunity to put something on the watch that actually meant something to both of us. Our first thought was Washington, DC, where we were living. But we didn’t want the obvious landmarks. We weren’t interested in putting the Capitol or the Washington Monument on the back of the watch simply because they immediately said “Washington.” We considered the Statue of Freedom on top of the Capitol dome, which we thought was more interesting, but it was simply too detailed to reproduce properly on such a small surface. So we decided to wait. The watch arrived in 2022, a few months after the Nonantième, and we started wearing it without an engraving, and we loved it. The proportions were wonderful, the green dial was even better on the wrist, and there was no reason to rush the decision. If we were going to put something permanently on the back, eventually the right idea would come. It did, although not in Washington but in Miami. Deni and I had admired Istanbul jeweler Sevan Bıçakçı for some time, and he had a boutique in Miami. We knew his work long before we knew him personally, and eventually Sevan and his team became friends. There was also an immediate connection between us because, if there is someone who loves Istanbul more than Deni and I do, and that is very difficult, it may be Sevan. Istanbul occupies a very particular place in our lives. Deni is originally from Bulgaria and I am originally from Kosovo, but when people ask us where we are from, very often our answer is simply that we are İstanbullu. We met there. We fell in love there. We studied there, worked there and spent roughly a decade of our lives there. It was where much of our academic and professional lives took shape, but it was also where we grew up together. Istanbul isn’t our birthplace, but in many ways it is the city that made us. When we met Sevan in Miami, we brought him the Reverso and asked whether he would engrave it for us. Because the watch was new and the case was steel, he preferred that the actual engraving be done through Jaeger-LeCoultre so that there would be no issue with the watch or its warranty. But he offered something that meant even more to us: he would personally design the engraving. We sat together and talked about Istanbul. Once again, we knew what we didn’t want. No usual suspects: no Bosphorus Bridge, no Sultanahmet Mosque, no Hagia Sophia and no Maiden’s Tower. They are all beautiful and important parts of the city, but we didn’t want the back of our Reverso to look like a postcard. In our conversation, Sevan asked us what we actually remembered, and that was an easier question. When we were students, some of our happiest moments were also the simplest: sitting by the Bosphorus with a glass of Turkish tea and a simit, watching the water and the seagulls. Anyone who has lived in Istanbul knows this scene. Sevan listened and told us he understood what we were looking for. He asked us to give him some time and said he would come back with ideas. Then, in February 2023, the devastating earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria. For months, the attention of people throughout Turkey, including Sevan and his team, was understandably elsewhere. We weren’t going to bother anyone about an engraving on a watch at a time like that, so we simply left it alone. Eventually, many months later, we returned to the conversation. When Sevan’s designs finally arrived, there were three extraordinary designs. Deni and I became emotional looking at them because somehow he had managed to take a conversation about our memories and turn it into three little works of art. We could have happily used any of them, but one immediately felt like ours. At the bottom is a glass of Turkish tea. Beside it is a simit, but as the form rises across the composition, the simit begins to transform into seagulls flying into the distance. Beyond them, on the horizon, stands the Galata Tower. The whole composition feels almost like looking through a window, which seems especially appropriate on the reverse of a Reverso. The Galata Tower also carries a meaning that goes beyond simply being a recognizable Istanbul landmark. Its long history reaches back to the medieval city, and the Galata neighborhood was for centuries connected with the Genoese presence in Constantinople. For us, it represents something we have always loved about Istanbul: the layers of civilizations, religions, languages and communities that have occupied the same city over centuries. What we love most about Sevan’s design, though, is that it doesn’t immediately announce itself. Someone unfamiliar with Istanbul might simply see a tower, birds, bread and tea. There is no famous skyline telling you exactly where you are. But someone who knows Istanbul will know, and that is exactly what we wanted. When Deni and I turn the Reverso over, we don’t simply see a picture of a city. We see ourselves when we were younger. We see the place where we met and fell in love, where we studied and worked, where we became adults and began building a life together. We remember sitting beside the Bosphorus with tea and simit, with the seagulls circling above us and one of the most beautiful cities in the world unfolding around us. There are grander ways to represent Istanbul. But that wasn’t our Istanbul. This is! ### About [Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/edi-deni-shipoli) For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them are usually the ones that became connected to something else: a place, a friendship, a journey, an achievement, the birth of their son Brion, or simply a moment in their lives that they wanted to remember. Their relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre began with an appreciation for the brand long before they seriously began collecting Reversos — they owned vintage pieces and admired the company’s history as a watchmaker and movement maker, but the Reverso gradually became something much more personal. That story really began in 2021, when Edi and Deni traveled to New York after an extraordinary year: Deni had completed her PhD, they had lived through the uncertainty of the pandemic, and in December 2020 their son Brion had been born. They went to New York looking for a watch to commemorate his birth and came home having unexpectedly begun a relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. That way of looking at watches sits naturally beside Edi and Deni’s work as the creators of *Watches & Politics*, a project exploring horology through history, culture, diplomacy, economics, power, and the people and institutions that shape the watch world. [Edi on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shipoli_e/)[Brion on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brionandwatches/)[Watches & Politics — YouTube](https://youtube.com/@WatchesAndPolitics)[Watches & Politics — Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7uFPFIcvfG8IwrbhXMNcjl)[Watches & Politics — Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watches-and-politics/id1822610214)[Watches & Politics — website](https://www.shipoliventures.com/watchesandpolitics) More From This Collection [**The Reverso That Started It All**Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano)[**The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme)[**The Call Before the Appointment**Reverso Tribute Chronograph, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph)[**Our First Watches and Wonders**Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic)[**Reverso Tribute family**Models · the heritage tier, since 2016](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-2016)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/sarp-titulescu Summary: An early steel Reverso found through an Istanbul dealer, its case back engraved with a signature and a date: 29·X·934. The signature belonged to Nicolae… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Sarp Vahabi # The Diplomat’s Reverso An early steel Reverso found through an Istanbul dealer, its case back engraved with a signature and a date: 29·X·934. The signature belonged to Nicolae Titulescu, and the date was the day Atatürk received him in Ankara. Experience ## The Diplomat’s Reverso An early steel Reverso from an Istanbul dealer, a signature on its back, and a date: 29·X·934 — the day Atatürk received Nicolae Titulescu in Ankara. Reverso monoface, steel — dial signed Golay Fils & Stahl · 1930s I have always been drawn to Reversos because the back of the watch leaves room for something personal. Sometimes it is an initial, a date, a family crest or a message that probably meant something only to the person who commissioned it. This one was different. I found it through a dealer in Istanbul. The signature was that of Nicolae Titulescu, one of the most important Romanian diplomats of the interwar period. Suddenly, what had been an interesting early Reverso sitting in a dealer’s hands became something entirely different. The watch itself dates from the first years of the Reverso. It is a steel monoface with a black dial, small seconds at six, and the signature of the Geneva retailer Golay Fils & Stahl beneath the Reverso name. It has that wonderfully restrained look that early Reversos have, but the part that makes this watch special is the reverse. Engraved across the back is Titulescu’s signature, followed by a date written simply as: 29·X·934 for 29 October 1934. Once I understood whose name was on the watch, that date became the beginning of the story. On 29 October 1934, Turkey was celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the Republic. Titulescu was in Ankara and was received that day by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The visit was important because Titulescu was not simply another foreign dignitary passing through the new Turkish capital. He was Romania’s foreign minister, had twice served as president of the League of Nations Assembly, and had been one of the central figures behind the Balkan Entente signed earlier that year between Romania, Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia. His relationship with Turkey, and particularly with Turkish foreign minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras, belonged to a much larger effort to build cooperation and stability in a Europe that was becoming increasingly uncertain. The date on the watch places it directly inside that history. The visit was reported on the front page of *Hakimiyeti Milliye*, which announced that Atatürk had received Titulescu in Ankara. That newspaper has remained with the watch, giving us something unusual: not only an engraving and a date, but a surviving contemporary record of the day itself. What I believe is that the Reverso was presented during that visit as a commemorative gift to a Turkish statesman, its blank reverse engraved with Titulescu’s signature and the date so that the occasion would not be forgotten. Somewhere afterward, the watch entered the family of a decorated Turkish soldier. Years later it surfaced again in Istanbul, passed through a dealer, and eventually reached me. That journey is part of what I love about it. For decades, someone had preserved this little steel watch. The name on the back survived, the date survived, and somehow the newspaper from that same day survived with it. Yet by the time it appeared in front of me, much of the story had been forgotten. The dealer knew he had something unusual, but Titulescu had become simply “somebody.” But I recognized the name, and that is probably the moment when the watch became mine, at least emotionally. I collect Reversos because I like the idea that the reverse can preserve something that would otherwise disappear. Most engravings are private memories, and that is part of their beauty. This one happens to preserve something much larger: a moment between two countries, two governments and people who were trying to build alliances during one of the most difficult periods in European history. When I turn the case over, I see a man’s signature and a date. But behind those few engraved marks is Ankara in 1934, the anniversary of a young republic, Titulescu’s visit to Atatürk, and a diplomatic relationship that once mattered enough for someone to mark the day permanently on the back of a Reverso. That is a great deal of history to carry on the wrist. *About the watch.* An early stainless-steel Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso monoface, with a black dial signed by the Geneva retailer Golay Fils & Stahl, small seconds at six, and gilt markers and hands. The reverse is engraved with the signature of Nicolae Titulescu and the date 29 October 1934. Its provenance is supported by the contemporary *Hakimiyeti Milliye* front page documenting Titulescu’s visit to Ankara, a Jaeger-LeCoultre archive extract associated with the case number, and examination of the watch indicating that the retailer-signed dial and engraving are consistent with the period. ### About [Sarp Vahabi](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/sarp-vahabi) Sarp Vahabi collects Reversos for the reason the watch has always invited: the blank reverse, and what people chose to put on it. Most of those engravings are private — an initial, a date, a message meaningful to one person and unreadable to everyone since. Occasionally one preserves something much larger, and the pleasure of the hunt lies in recognising which is which. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/watch_game_is_disgusting/)[watches.com.tr](https://watches.com.tr) More From This Collection [**Reverso (first series)**Models · 1931](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-1931-original)[**Retailer-signed Reversos**Models · dials signed by Golay Fils & Stahl and others](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-retailer-signed) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/roni-jalaram Summary: A wedding gift from his wife, later sent to Le Sentier with an unusual request: a portrait of the Gujarati saint Jalaram Bapa on the reverse. What came back… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Roni Madhvani # The Reverso of Belief A wedding gift from his wife, later sent to Le Sentier with an unusual request: a portrait of the Gujarati saint Jalaram Bapa on the reverse. What came back was not what he had pictured — and he has cherished it ever since. Experience ## The Reverso of Belief A wedding gift, a saint from Gujarat, and a request sent from Kampala to Le Sentier forty years ago. What came back was not what he had pictured. Reverso with enamel and engraved portrait of Jalaram Bapa I have owned this Reverso for a very long time. My wife gave it to me when we got married, many moons ago, and at the time it was a huge thing for me because it was probably the most expensive watch I owned. That alone would have been enough to make it important. But a few years later, I began thinking about doing something with the reverse. I had always been fascinated by the old watches associated with the Indian Maharajas, particularly the beautiful enamel work that appeared on some of the early Reversos. My own family has a long connection with India. My grandfather, Muljibhai Madhvani, came from Gujarat in western India and sailed to Uganda in 1908, when he was only fourteen years old. He eventually established a sugar business here and laid the foundations for what became our family’s business. So although Uganda is home, India and Gujarat have always been part of our family story. I wanted the back of my Reverso to carry something connected to that part of me, but also to something even more personal: my faith. I asked Jaeger-LeCoultre in Le Sentier whether they would create an enamel portrait of Jalaram Bapa, the Hindu saint in whom I believe. Jalaram Bapa came from Virpur in Gujarat, the same part of India from which my grandfather came. His life was associated with service and particularly with feeding and sheltering people regardless of their class, creed or religion. That tradition of feeding people continues in Virpur today. I had the old Maharaja watches in my mind when I made the request, and what I imagined was a traditional enamel portrait in that spirit. When the Reverso eventually returned, Jaeger-LeCoultre had created Jalaram Bapa using a combination of enamel and engraving rather than the enamel portrait I had imagined. This was around four decades ago, long before email, WhatsApp and photographs could travel from one side of the world to the other in a few seconds. Communicating exactly what you wanted between Uganda and Switzerland took considerably more patience. The longer I lived with it, the less I thought about what I had originally requested and the more I loved what had actually been made. Today, I cherish it passionately. The watch continued to evolve with me as well. I have always loved Art Deco, and the original dial of the Reverso never quite felt Art Deco enough for my taste. My wife began the story when she gave it to me for our marriage. Later, I added something connected to my faith and to the part of India from which my family came. Then my own obsession with Art Deco found its way onto the other side. That is probably why, among so many unusual watches I have collected over the years, this one connects with me differently. ### About [Roni Madhvani](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/roni-madhvani) Roni Madhvani is a collector whose taste has always been drawn toward the unusual. Based in Kampala, Uganda, he has built a collection around vintage watches with character: unusual cases, double-signed and enamel dials, clocks and pocket watches, and particularly pieces from the Art Deco period. His interest extends well beyond the watches themselves — he collects old books and catalogues, studies the history around the objects he owns, and regularly shares what he discovers with other collectors. There is also a deeply personal side to the way he collects. His family’s history stretches from Gujarat in western India to Uganda, where his grandfather, Muljibhai Madhvani, arrived as a fourteen-year-old in 1908 and eventually established the foundations of a very successful business venture. That connection to India, together with Roni’s fascination with the watches made for the Maharajas, has shaped parts of his collection. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/roni_m_29/) More From This Collection [**The “Maharani” Reverso**Pièces uniques · the earliest documented enamelled Reverso, 1936](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso)[**The Maharaja of Jaipur Reverso**Pièces uniques · 1930s](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharaja-of-jaipur-reverso)[**The Rama Reverso**Pièces uniques · an enamelled Hindu deity, 1949](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/rama-reverso) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter Summary: Ordered a week after his daughter was born, then sent back to Switzerland so her name could be lacquered across the reverse. He wears it carefully, because… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Farhan Hussain # My Daughter’s Reverso Ordered a week after his daughter was born, then sent back to Switzerland so her name could be lacquered across the reverse. He wears it carefully, because one day it will be hers. Experience ## My Daughter’s Reverso Ordered a week after she was born, sent back to Switzerland for her name in lacquer, and worn carefully ever since — because one day it will be hers. Reverso with lacquered lettering · 2022 I ordered this Reverso in January 2022, just a week after my daughter was born. I had previously seen a similar Reverso with lacquered lettering in Arabic and loved the idea, but I wondered whether Jaeger-LeCoultre could do something similar for me using English lettering instead. I spoke with the boutique in London, and they said it could be done. First, though, we had to wait for the watch itself. Once a piece finally became available, it went back to Switzerland for the personalized work, where my daughter’s name was added to the reverse. It meant waiting a little longer, but that didn’t really matter. From the moment I placed the order, this was never going to be simply another Reverso for me: it was hers. I still wear it, although usually only for special occasions. Part of that is because I want to protect the reverse and avoid putting too many scratches across the lacquered surface, but perhaps I am also a little more careful with it because I know what the watch represents. Every time I turn it over and see my daughter’s name, it takes me back to January 2022 and those first days after she was born. One day, she will wear it, but until then, I have the pleasure of looking after it for her. ### About [Farhan Hussain](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/farhan-hussain) Farhan Hussain collects from London, where two Reversos in his collection have become tied to his two children — one ordered a week after his daughter was born and personalised with her name, the other bought years earlier and engraved before his son arrived. More From This Collection [**My Son’s Reverso**Reverso, black dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-son)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson Summary: Engraved with a 1964 Gibson ES-335 — the same year as Eric Clapton’s famous cherry red guitar — to mark more than twenty years playing guitar, including one… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @decowatches # The Gibson Guitar Reverso Engraved with a 1964 Gibson ES-335 — the same year as Eric Clapton’s famous cherry red guitar — to mark more than twenty years playing guitar, including one professional stretch. Experience ## The Gibson Guitar Reverso Twenty years of playing guitar, one of them for a living, and a 1964 Gibson ES-335 in red lacquer on the back of a Reverso. Reverso Tribute, 40.1mm I bought this 40.1 mm Reverso Tribute last year. It was my first Reverso in this size, and it eventually made me realize that I much prefer the proportions of the 40.1 mm and 42.9 mm cases to the larger 45.6 mm version. I have been playing guitar for more than twenty years and, at one point in my life, I also played professionally. For the engraving, I chose one of my favourite guitars: a 1964 Gibson ES-335. That period is particularly important in the history of the model, as the quality of the wood and construction is widely regarded as being among Gibson’s best. Eric Clapton’s famous cherry red ES-335 was also made in 1964, which made the choice even more meaningful to me. I also had my initials engraved in an Art Deco typeface. Fortunately, the manufacture did an excellent job with the lacquered engraving, and the final result surpassed my expectations. ### About [@decowatches](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/decowatches) A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @decowatches. His two engraved pieces trace two different threads of his life: a promise made to his wife on their honeymoon in Milan, and more than two decades spent playing guitar, including one professional stretch. A third, a steel Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, was love at first sight. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/decowatches/) More From This Collection [**My Son’s Reverso**Reverso Classic, 45.6mm](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son)[**Love at First Sight**Reverso Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, stainless steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-tourbillon)[**Reverso Tribute family**Models · the heritage tier, since 2016](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-2016)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/george-mason-flower Summary: A board appointment at George Mason University’s business school became the reason for a first Reverso: green dial to the front, and on the back, the… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. A DC Watch Enthusiast # George Mason Flower A board appointment at George Mason University’s business school became the reason for a first Reverso: green dial to the front, and on the back, the school’s colors reimagined as a hand-decorated Art Deco floral engraving rather than a literal crest. Experience ## George Mason Flower A seat on a business school’s advisory board, marked not with a tie or a lapel pin but with a first Reverso — and a flower in the school’s green and gold. Reverso, green dial My Reverso began with an appointment that was meaningful to me personally: joining the Advisory Board of George Mason University’s Costello College of Business. I wanted something that would commemorate my affiliation with the University, but I didn’t necessarily want the traditional expression of school colors through a tie, lapel pin, or another piece of university memorabilia. As a lifelong watch enthusiast, it seemed much more natural to mark the occasion through a watch. The Reverso was the perfect canvas and importantly, I didn’t yet have one in my collection. I have always appreciated the Reverso’s history and its origins in polo in India, which gave me the additional reason for selecting it. George Mason’s green and gold then became the inspiration for the design. I chose a beautiful radiating green dial and dark green strap for the visible side of the watch. But the part that makes it truly personal is revealed when the case is reversed: an engraved floral motif hand decorated by JLC incorporating rich green foliage and vibrant yellow gold trumpet flowers with subtle red accents arranged in a distinctly Art Deco, radiating fashion. I deliberately chose not to simply reproduce a university logo or put the school’s name on the case. I wanted the connection to be more subtle, artistic and personal. When I put the watch on my wrist, the colors immediately remind me of George Mason and of my relationship with the institution, while to everyone else it can simply be appreciated as a beautiful piece of decorative art. That is what makes personalized watches so interesting to me. The watch itself tells time, but the personalization marks a time in your life. ### About [A DC Watch Enthusiast](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/dc-watch-enthusiast) A DC-area watch enthusiast whose Reverso marks a specific professional milestone: joining the Advisory Board of George Mason University’s Costello College of Business, translated into the watch’s own hand-decorated case back rather than a literal school crest. More From This Collection [**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait Summary: An empty case back bothered him for years, until he remembered a family sketch by his great-great-grandfather’s cousin, the Russian Impressionist Leonid… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Paul Stewart # A Portrait from the Family An empty case back bothered him for years, until he remembered a family sketch by his great-great-grandfather’s cousin, the Russian Impressionist Leonid Pasternak, and turned a century-old portrait into an engraving. Experience ## A Portrait from the Family A blank caseback, an inherited sketch by Leonid Pasternak, and a great-great-grandfather drawn by his own cousin — now engraved on the back of a Reverso. Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds · 2021 Ever since I bought my Reverso Duoface, the empty caseback of my Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds had started to bother me. There is something about that blank space on the back of a Reverso that eventually makes you feel as though something ought to be there. In 2021, I finally decided to do something about it. I didn’t have to look very far for what I wanted to engrave. About ten years earlier, after a relative passed away, I had inherited a family sketch by the Russian Impressionist artist Leonid Pasternak. The man in the sketch is my great-great-grandfather, Karl Pasternak. But this wasn’t simply a case of an artist drawing someone’s portrait. Karl and Leonid were cousins, close friends, and Karl was also a financial supporter of Leonid’s work. The relationship between the two families became even closer in the next generation, when Leonid’s daughter Josephine married Karl’s son Frederick, so I am actually connected to Leonid through the family twice over. The original sketch carries a simple inscription from the artist to Karl: “To my dear cousin.” That history made the drawing an obvious choice for the Reverso. Rather than reproduce the entire sketch, I chose a detail showing my great-great-grandfather and asked Jaeger-LeCoultre whether they could translate it into an engraving. The process was relatively painless. I photographed the complete sketch and then took another photograph broadly framing the particular detail I wanted to use. Jaeger-LeCoultre came back with a couple of mock-ups showing how the portrait could be adapted to the small rectangular space on the back of the watch. Once I had chosen the version I preferred and given my approval, I dropped off the Reverso and waited. The whole process took about three months. When it came back, that empty caseback that had bothered me for so long was no longer empty. It carried the face of my great-great-grandfather, taken from a drawing made by his cousin and close friend, passed down through our family and eventually inherited by me more than a century later. I’m very happy with how it turned out, but what I like most is the continuity of it all. Leonid once sat in front of Karl and drew him on paper, leaving him a personal inscription. That drawing remained in our family, eventually came to me, and a detail from it now lives on the back of a watch that will hopefully continue its own journey through the family. ### About [Paul Stewart](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/paul-stewart) Paul Stewart’s Reverso carries a piece of family history few watches could: an engraved portrait of his great-great-grandfather, taken from a sketch drawn generations ago by a cousin who happened to be a working artist. More From This Collection [**Reverso Tribute family**Models · Tribute Small Seconds among them](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-2016)[**Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds**Models · the 2025 version](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-monoface-ss-2025)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/taylor-wos-wisdom Summary: Father and daughter shared a love of Art Deco New York, and turned it into a one-of-one engraving of Lee Lawrie’s Wisdom from Rockefeller Center… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Taylor Wos # Wisdom Father and daughter shared a love of Art Deco New York, and turned it into a one-of-one engraving of Lee Lawrie’s Wisdom from Rockefeller Center, inscription and all. The watch later turned up, unplanned, in The New York Times. Experience ## Wisdom A father who is an architect, a daughter raised in New York, and the Art Deco figure above the door of 30 Rockefeller Plaza — cut into the back of a Reverso, inscription and all. Reverso The engraving on the back of my Reverso is important to me for several reasons, but the story really begins with my father. He is an architect, and one of the things we have always shared is a love of Art Deco. I was born and raised in New York City, so when we began thinking together about what should go on the back of my Reverso, it felt natural to look toward the Art Deco architecture and artwork that have always been part of the city around us. We eventually came to Wisdom, the monumental work by sculptor Lee Lawrie above the main entrance of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It is one of those images that is so much a part of New York that you can walk past it without really stopping to think about it. Created by Lawrie with colorist Leon V. Solon, the enormous Art Deco figure looks down over the entrance to Rockefeller Center from Fifth Avenue. Wisdom is meant to represent the creative power of the universe and is flanked by two other Lawrie works, Sound and Light. For my father and me, though, there was something else in it that spoke to us. Rockefeller Center belongs to an era of extraordinary industrial development and optimism, when architecture, art and engineering were being used to express ideas about progress and what human beings could achieve. That idea mattered to both of us. We also kept the inscription associated with the original artwork: “Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.” I have always loved what those words represent. To me, they are about reason, learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and about the belief that progress ultimately depends on our willingness to understand more than we did before. That made the engraving personal in a way that simply choosing a beautiful image never could. It brought together New York, where I was born and raised; Art Deco, which my father and I both love; his life as an architect; my own interest in watches; and an idea about knowledge and progress that means something to both of us. Over time, something I created with my father has also become something of a calling card for me in the watch world. People have come to recognize the Reverso and its one-of-one engraving, which is something I never really expected when we were first deciding what to put on the back. It even had its own little New York moment. During an event at the Rainbow Room, the watch was photographed and later appeared in The New York Times. There was something particularly fitting about that: a Reverso bought in New York, engraved with our interpretation of one of the city’s great Art Deco landmarks, photographed high above the city at Rockefeller Center itself. I would still like to take the idea further one day and create a version in color enamel. There is much more that could be explored in the original artwork, particularly through color, and I like the thought that this may not be the last interpretation my father and I inspire from Wisdom. But whatever comes next, this one will always be the first. More than anything, when I turn the watch over, I don’t think about having created a unique Reverso. I think about sitting with my father and deciding what belonged there. The engraving may have become recognizable to other collectors, but for me it will always be a memory my father and I created together. ### About [Taylor Wos](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/taylor-wos) Taylor Wos grew up in New York City sharing a love of Art Deco with her architect father. That shared interest became the one-of-one engraving on the back of her Reverso, since recognized by other collectors and once photographed for The New York Times. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/aniatronicss/) More From This Collection [**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/rashawn-smith-astonmartin Summary: A 2007 collaboration piece built around the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, bought secondhand from the original owner’s son after a sale that started as a favor… Updated: 2026-10-27 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Rashawn Smith # The Aston Martin Reverso A 2007 collaboration piece built around the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, bought secondhand from the original owner’s son after a sale that started as a favor between strangers and ended as a purchase. Experience ## The Aston Martin Reverso A 2007 Jaeger-LeCoultre and Aston Martin collaboration, a red 8 on the dial, and a favour between strangers that turned into a purchase. Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoultre × Aston Martin · 2007 I had wanted a Reverso for some time, but I hadn’t found the one that felt right for me. Then this one appeared in a way I wasn’t expecting. The watch is from the collaboration between Jaeger-LeCoultre and Aston Martin and dates to 2007. It was created around the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, with the connection commemorated on the reverse of the Reverso. Even the dial has a small reference to the car, with the red “8” standing out against an otherwise restrained design. As someone who loves Aston Martin and James Bond, that combination already made the watch interesting to me. There is something about the two names that seems to work naturally together. Jaeger-LeCoultre and Aston Martin both have that mixture of elegance, engineering and history without needing to be overly loud about it. But the way I actually found the watch made it even better. I acquired it from the son of its original owner. He had inherited the Reverso and initially thought about passing it on to his future wife, but she wasn’t interested, because it was too big for her, but it fits my 7.5-inch wrist perfectly. He approached me because he wanted some help selling it, and initially I thought that was all I was going to do. Then he told me the price and my eyes opened pretty wide. At that point, helping him find another buyer suddenly became much less interesting. There is still something almost like alchemy about flipping the case. From the front, it is a Reverso with an unusual little red “8.” Then I turn it over and the Aston Martin connection reveals itself. As both an Aston Martin and James Bond fan, I don’t think I could have planned a Reverso that suited me much better. I’ve owned it for quite some time now, and I can’t really imagine parting with it. I also enjoy how much the personality of the watch can change depending on how I wear it. Sometimes it is on a black ostrich strap, sometimes on a mesh metal bracelet, and occasionally I put it on something more colorful just for fun. For a watch with such a strong identity of its own, it is surprisingly versatile. That is one of the things I enjoy about collecting in general. There is always something else to discover. It doesn’t really matter whether you are young and just entering the hobby or have been collecting for decades; you never reach the point where you have seen everything or know everything. I certainly wasn’t looking for this particular Reverso when it found me, but it did, in the right time, in the right place, with the right caseback. ### About [Rashawn Smith](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/rashawn-smith) Rashawn Smith collects under the name Fit 2 Win. His Reverso is a 2007 Jaeger-LeCoultre × Aston Martin collaboration piece, acquired secondhand from the original owner’s son in a sale that started as a favor and ended as a purchase. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/Rashawn__Smith/) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/haoming-wang-tribute Summary: A drawing of the musician Sarah Àlainn in a yellow dress, commissioned from a Sydney artist and hand-engraved on the case back. Engraving kept every detail… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Haoming Wang # A Tribute in Detail and Colour A drawing of the musician Sarah Àlainn in a yellow dress, commissioned from a Sydney artist and hand-engraved on the case back. Engraving kept every detail except the yellow, so the colour came back another way: in the strap. Experience ## A Tribute in Detail and Colour A drawing of a violinist in a yellow dress, an engraving that kept everything but the yellow, and the strap that brought it back. Reverso My Reverso is a tribute to my favorite musician, Sarah Àlainn. The story began with an original drawing. I commissioned Sydney-based artist Kumi Xu to depict Sarah performing, using her yellow dress as the central reference. I wanted the artwork to capture not only her appearance on stage, but something of the feeling I associate with her music and performances. The choice of yellow was instinctive. To me, it carries the feeling of spring, sunlight, vitality and quiet joy, while also reflecting a sense of creative energy. Once the illustration was complete, I wanted to find a way to bring it onto the back of my Reverso. Jaeger-LeCoultre offers bespoke engraving for the Reverso, working with its designers and engravers at the Manufacture to translate personal artwork onto the caseback. For mine, the original illustration was recreated as a fully hand-engraved composition. There was, however, something that engraving could not preserve: Colour. The engraving captured the detail, depth and texture of Kumi’s original drawing beautifully, but inevitably the yellow dress—the element that had been so important to the original composition—was left behind. That led to another idea. I commissioned a bespoke strap from Jeayou, choosing a warm tone that echoes the yellow dress in the original artwork. The strap subtly brings back the colour that could not remain in the engraving, connecting the watch on the wrist with the artwork that inspired the caseback. I like the balance that resulted from this. The engraving preserves the detail of the original drawing, while the strap reintroduces its colour. Neither tries to reproduce everything on its own, but together they bring the original idea back to life. It also makes the watch a collaboration of sorts. The inspiration comes from Sarah’s music and performance, the original artwork was created for me by Kumi in Sydney, the image was then interpreted by the engravers at Jaeger-LeCoultre, and the final touch of colour returned through the bespoke strap. For me, though, it remains something very simple: a personal tribute to an artist and musician whose work means a great deal to me. A balance between detail and colour — between what is preserved, and what is reintroduced. With thanks to Australian artists Sarah Àlainn and Kumi Xu (@itskx_illustrations). ### About [Haoming Wang](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/haoming-wang) Haoming Wang shares his watches on Instagram as @h.m.montre. His Reverso is a tribute to the musician Sarah Àlainn: a commissioned illustration hand-engraved on the case back, and a strap chosen to bring back the one thing engraving could not carry, its colour. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/h.m.montre/) More From This Collection [**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/sm-dragon Summary: A blank Reverso found at a small auction in eastern France and carried to Hong Kong as a godfather’s surprise gift. Then a self-taught engraver, who is also… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. SM # The Dragon A blank Reverso found at a small auction in eastern France and carried to Hong Kong as a godfather’s surprise gift. Then a self-taught engraver, who is also an actor and model, cut a dragon into it in the shape of the number eight. Experience ## The Dragon A blank Reverso from a small auction in France, a godfather’s surprise in Hong Kong, and a dragon drawn in the shape of the number eight. Reverso, hand-wound, time only · Early 2000s The story of this Reverso begins at a small auction in eastern France. My godfather is always scouring local auctions for good deals, and at one he regularly attends, he came across an early-2000s Reverso. He knew the man behind the auction, which helped him pick it up for a very good price—especially for such a classic Reverso. It was simple: time only, hand-wound, with that wonderful blank caseback that gives you a completely empty canvas. When my godfather came to visit me in Hong Kong, he surprised me with the watch as a gift. It meant a lot because suddenly I had something of his that I could carry with me wherever I went. Someone once told me that watches are memory keepers, and this one immediately became exactly that. There was also something quite funny about the whole thing because we already had our own little watch-gifting tradition. My godfather is an avid Swatch collector, and I often give him Swatches. Apparently, if you give someone enough Swatches, eventually you get a Jaeger-LeCoultre in return. I would say that’s a pretty good deal. The back was completely blank when he gave it to me, but almost immediately I knew I wanted to do something with it to mark the occasion. Not long afterward, I was having drinks with some close friends and mentioned that I wanted to have the Reverso engraved. Peter suggested that I meet his friend Carlos Koo, who, he explained, was an actor and model who also happened to engrave. I was confused: a model and actor who engraves watches? We arranged to meet at one of my regular watering holes in Hong Kong, ThinkWine, where Carlos brought along examples of his work. My skepticism disappeared very quickly. His portfolio was extraordinary: sea-inspired dog tags, watches with designs inspired by the sky, and even an entire motorcycle. My brain just about exploded. My original idea for the Reverso had actually been quite different. I like repetitive patterns and sacred geometry, so I thought we might create some sort of pattern across the caseback. Carlos and I began bouncing ideas back and forth, but then I remembered another Reverso I had seen that year featuring a dragon against black lacquer. Since 2024 was the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, the idea suddenly felt right. More importantly, I knew Carlos could take it somewhere completely different and make it ours. We started researching forms and patterns together, including the traditional cloud formations that eventually became part of the engraving. The process was deliberately straightforward and iterative. I would explain an idea and Carlos would make a relatively simple sketch so that we could see whether it worked before going too far. Then we would adjust it and try again. We went through several ideas for the dragon before another element brought everything together: the number eight. Eight is an auspicious number in Chinese culture, and I liked the idea of incorporating its form into the dragon itself. It also happened to work beautifully with the proportions of the Reverso. Instead of trying to squeeze a dragon awkwardly into a rectangular caseback, the flowing shape of the eight allowed the body to move naturally through the available space and fill the canvas in a much more refined way. Once we had the design, Carlos did what Carlos does best. Over the course of a few weeks, working on it between shoots, he engraved the entire design by hand. The finished dragon is complemented by small areas of gold inlay and black ink, which give the engraving additional contrast and depth. What makes Carlos’s work even more remarkable to me is that he is entirely self-taught. When you look at him working, though, you don’t think about that. You see passion, craft and precision—just extraordinary concentration with every pass of the chisel. By the time he finished, I no longer really thought of it as simply an engraved watch. The Reverso itself came to me through the love and generosity of my godfather, while the caseback came from the friendship, imagination and craftsmanship that developed between Carlos and me. Those two stories now live together in the same object. Because of that, I treat it as a work of art and tend to bring it out for special occasions. There was another chapter I hadn’t expected. When Carlos later had an exhibition of his work, I was surprised by how prominently our dragon appeared. Elements of the design had been reproduced on much larger canvases, taking this little engraving we had worked on together and turning it into something people could encounter on a completely different scale. I went to the exhibition wearing the Reverso, but I didn’t tell anyone what was on my wrist. I was perfectly happy standing there and watching people admire the larger artwork, knowing that somewhere beneath my sleeve I had the original. There was something very satisfying about that. I didn’t need anyone to know that I had helped develop the design or that the original was sitting on my wrist. Seeing other people respond to something we had created was enough. I think that is ultimately what great design can do. It begins as an idea between a few people, but once it is made, it no longer belongs only to them. Other people can see it, respond to it and find their own enjoyment in it. For me, though, the meaning will always begin with my godfather arriving in Hong Kong with a surprise gift. What started as a simple, blank Reverso became something that carries his memory, my friendship with Carlos, and a piece of art that we created together. And considering that my side of the deal mostly involved giving my godfather Swatches, I still think I came out ahead. Engraving and artwork by Carlos Koo (@koocarlos), with special thanks to Peter Elliot Glomb (@peterelliotglomb) and ThinkWine Hong Kong (@thinkwine.hongkong). ### About [SM](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/sm) SM is a collector in Hong Kong who shares this story under initials. The Reverso was a surprise gift from a godfather; the dragon on its back was designed over drinks and sketches with the engraver Carlos Koo. More From This Collection [**The Detail Is in the Dragon**Pièces uniques · another engraved dragon, Brazil](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/detail-is-in-the-dragon-reverso)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun Summary: One of 39 made for Thailand: three for the colours of the flag, nine for King Rama IX. A yellow dial for the light of dawn, and on the reverse, Wat Arun… Updated: 2026-10-27 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @jlc.reverso # The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn One of 39 made for Thailand: three for the colours of the flag, nine for King Rama IX. A yellow dial for the light of dawn, and on the reverse, Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn. Experience ## The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn One of 39 made for Thailand: a yellow dial for the light of dawn and for King Rama IX, and Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn, on the reverse. Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition · Ref. Q380841G The Grande Reverso Day/Night Limited Thailand Edition, “One of 39,” holds a particularly meaningful place in my collection. It was one of the pieces that inspired me to look beyond the watch itself and explore how a Reverso can become a canvas for local history, culture, and identity. The limited edition of 39 pieces carries a special resonance for Thailand. The number 3 represents the three primary colors featured on the national flag of Thailand. The number 9 symbolizes King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the ninth monarch of the Chakri dynasty, who reigned for 70 years until his passing in 2016. What makes this edition especially memorable to me is its extraordinary yellow dial, a color rarely seen among Reverso editions. Its warm tone symbolizes the light of dawn, while yellow also holds a deep connection to King Rama IX and the Thai monarchy. The reverse side features a charming engraving of Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn, which beautifully embodies the blend of Hindu-Buddhist cultural heritage, while the symbolism of dawn suggests renewal and new beginnings. For me, this Reverso brings together several things I value in collecting: the history of Jaeger-LeCoultre, the unique character of a limited edition, and a personal connection to my own country. It is a beautiful example of how the reverse side of a Reverso can tell a story that goes far beyond the watch itself. ### About [@jlc.reverso](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso) A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) More From This Collection [**The Tourbillon Made My Own**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon)[**Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries**Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” (rose gold) and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” (steel)](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait)[**A Brown Dial from 1933**Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933)[**The Reverso That Changed Everything**Reverso 60ème, Grande Taille](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-60eme)[**The Thailand edition**Limited Editions · Ref. Q380841G, 39 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Q380841G)[**National anniversary editions**Limited Editions · made for countries and cities](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=National%20anniversary%20editions) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/ian-cassar-spes Summary: The Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Malta: a red cross and four letters, SPES, Latin for hope. It is meant for a son who is nine… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Ian Cassar # A Reverso of Hope The Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Malta: a red cross and four letters, SPES, Latin for hope. It is meant for a son who is nine today, with a message for when he is older. Experience ## A Reverso of Hope The Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Malta: a red cross and four letters, SPES, Latin for hope. A message for a son who is nine years old today. Reverso, engraved with the Cassar coat of arms The engraving on the back of my Reverso is something very personal to me because it represents my family, where I come from, and something I hope to pass on to my son one day. It features the Cassar family coat of arms, with a red cross surrounded by four letters that spell SPES, the Latin word for “hope.” I have always liked the meaning behind that word, because hope is something that connects our past with our future. It reminds us of where we come from, but also encourages us to work hard for the things we want to achieve. I had the engraving done by Jaeger-LeCoultre, through the main jewelry shop here in Malta, which is run by an old school friend of mine and brings the brand to the island. That personal connection made the process even more meaningful, as the watch itself was already intended to become something much more than just another piece in my collection. My son is still only nine years old, but one day this Reverso will be his. I want him to have something he can carry with him throughout his life that reminds him of his family and his roots in Malta. More importantly, I hope that whenever he turns the watch over and sees our family coat of arms, he will remember what those four letters stand for. For me, SPES is not simply a word engraved on a watch. It is a message I want to leave him: to remember where he comes from, to work hard for what he believes in, and to never lose hope that his dreams can come true. One day, when he is older and this Reverso is on his wrist instead of mine, I hope he will understand why I chose this engraving for him. ### About [Ian Cassar](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/ian-cassar) Ian Cassar collects from Malta. The Reverso here carries the Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre through the island’s jeweller, run by an old school friend, and it is meant one day for the next generation. More From This Collection [**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-nonantieme Summary: The Nonantième was meant to be spoken for by the time he went looking. A meeting in Singapore with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s then CEO turned a missed allocation… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Robin Tong Lin Wong # A Reverso for a Milestone The Nonantième was meant to be spoken for by the time he went looking. A meeting in Singapore with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s then CEO turned a missed allocation into the watch that marks his startup’s exit. Experience ## A Reverso for a Milestone Years in a startup, an acquisition, and a limited edition that had already been allocated — until a meeting in Singapore. Reverso Tribute Nonantième · Ref. Q711252J · 2021 Probably my most special Reverso is the Tribute Nonantième. For several years, I had been involved with a technology startup, first as an investor and then as an early employee. Anyone who has been part of a startup knows that there is a lot that happens between believing in an idea at the beginning and eventually seeing it succeed. In our case, the company was acquired, giving us the kind of exit that every early investor and employee hopes for. I stayed with the new company as part of the acquisition, and after completing my first year of the earnout, I decided I wanted to do something for myself to mark what we had achieved. I wanted a Reverso Tribute Nonantième, but there was a slight problem. The Nonantième was a limited edition and, as far as I understood, the pieces had already been allocated. I had more or less missed my chance. Around that time, Catherine Rénier, who was then CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, was visiting Singapore, and I had the opportunity to meet her. I told her about the milestone and why I wanted the Nonantième to commemorate it. Somehow, Jaeger-LeCoultre managed to find one for me, and make this watch even more special. I have bought watches for many reasons over the years, but this one will always take me back to a very particular period of my life. Whenever I put it on, it reminds me of something I helped build, the years that went into it, and a moment when I felt I had earned the right to give myself something special. Perhaps that is why it remains probably my most special Reverso. ### About [Robin Tong Lin Wong](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/robin-tong-lin-wong) Robin Tong Lin Wong collects from Singapore, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has always been his favourite maison. His most personal Reverso marks a professional milestone rather than a family one: the technology startup he backed as an investor and joined as an early employee, and the exit that followed. Two more came from the 2025 Watches & Wonders releases: the Tribute Geographic he chose that year, and the Or Deco he could not forget and brought home the next. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/watchthebin/) More From This Collection [**The Scratch That Wasn’t There**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-scratch)[**The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme)[**The Reverso That Won Me Over**Reverso Tribute Geographic](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic)[**The Reverso I Couldn’t Forget**Reverso Or Deco Milanese](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-or-deco)[**Reverso Tribute Nonantième**Limited Editions · 190 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tribute%20Nonanti%C3%A8me)[**Reverso Tribute Nonantième**Models · the 90th-anniversary piece, 2021](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-nonantieme) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/bird-little-reverso Summary: Found in Japan, left behind, regretted for six months, then brought home by a friend who happened to be travelling there: a small manual-wind Reverso in the… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Bird # The Little Reverso from Japan Found in Japan, left behind, regretted for six months, then brought home by a friend who happened to be travelling there: a small manual-wind Reverso in the proportions it took years to find, now worn on straps in the colours of city pop. Experience ## The Little Reverso from Japan The smallest Reverso in the collection, the one with the right proportions, found in Japan and left behind. Six months later, a friend went back for it. Reverso, manual wind, about 35 × 19 mm · Ref. 260.2.86 My favorite Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is actually the smallest one in my collection. I have relatively small wrists, around 6 to 6.2 inches, and over the years I've tried just about every Reverso size. For me, this one has always had the best proportions. I like a watch to leave a little space above and below the case, ideally around 20 to 30 percent of my wrist, and I think that's when the Reverso looks its most beautiful. There's something about the smaller size that makes the design feel particularly elegant. The problem was finding the right one. This particular size, reference 260.2.86, measures approximately 35 by 19 mm and is relatively uncommon, especially with a mechanical movement. Most of the examples I came across were either from the Duetto line or quartz models, and neither was quite what I wanted. I'm not really into diamonds or quartz watches, so finding a simple, manually wound Reverso in these proportions turned out to be much harder than I expected. Eventually, I found one in Japan. The funny thing is that I was actually traveling there at the time, but for some reason I didn't buy it. After returning home, I kept thinking about the watch, and as the months went by, I began to regret leaving it behind. About six months later, I had more or less given up on finding another one when a friend happened to be traveling to Japan. I asked if they could check whether the Reverso was still available and, to my surprise, it was! My friend picked it up for me, and after all that waiting, the little Reverso I had left behind was finally mine. One of the things I enjoy most about wearing it is playing around with different straps. I'm a huge fan of Japanese city pop, and I like bringing some of that colorful, slightly nostalgic style into the watch. Whenever I have a strap made, I tend to choose unusual combinations, like purple leather with contrasting stitching and a different color lining. It's a fun way to give a very classical watch a completely different personality without changing anything about the watch itself. I think that's what makes this Reverso so special to me. It has the vintage proportions I love, a manual-wind movement, and a design that fits my wrist exactly the way I want it to. But with the right strap, it can also feel playful and colorful, almost like something from the city pop era. It took a trip to Japan, six months of waiting, and a little help from a friend to finally get it, but I'm glad I didn't give up on finding the right one. ### About [Bird](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/bird) Bird collects Reversos with a close eye for proportion: after trying almost every size on a small wrist, the smaller vintage case won. A love of Japanese city pop shows up in the straps, made in unusual colours with contrasting stitching and linings that do not match. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/birddd/) More From This Collection [**Reverso Classique**Models · the smaller “Dame” size](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-classique)[**Reverso Classic Small Monoface**Models · 2026, a return to vintage scale](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-classic-small-2026) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/kitja-rouge Summary: A red dial that could not be bought at home, and the first time a love of watches became a reason to cross a border: the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Rouge, a… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @wristwatch_kitja # The Reverso Worth Traveling For A red dial that could not be bought at home, and the first time a love of watches became a reason to cross a border: the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Rouge, a 2012 boutique edition for the Reverso’s eightieth year. Experience ## The Reverso Worth Traveling For A red dial that could not be bought at home, and the first time a love of watches became a reason to travel abroad. Grande Reverso Ultra Thin, Edition Spéciale Rouge · Ref. 277.8.62 · 2012 I fell in love with the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Rouge the moment I first saw its vibrant red dial. There was something about that particular shade of red that immediately caught my attention, especially on a watch as classical and elegant as the Reverso. Introduced as a special boutique edition in 2012 and limited to 500 pieces, it celebrated the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and paid tribute to the red dials that had been part of the model’s history since 1931. The problem was that this particular edition wasn't available in my home country. I had never traveled abroad specifically to buy a watch before, but I loved this Reverso so much that I decided it was worth making the trip. It was the first time I had ever gone to another country with the purpose of finding a particular timepiece, and that experience made the watch even more special to me. I have always been drawn to the Reverso's timeless design, but the Rouge has a character of its own. The striking red dial gives an otherwise understated watch a completely different personality, while still maintaining the elegance that made the original Reverso so special. For me, this watch will always be more than a beautiful limited edition. It reminds me of the first time my passion for watches took me beyond my own country in search of something I truly wanted. All because of a red dial that I simply couldn't get out of my head. ### About [@wristwatch_kitja](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/wristwatch-kitja) A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @wristwatch_kitja, whose love of one red dial led to a first trip abroad made purely to find a watch. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wristwatch_kitja/) More From This Collection [**Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Rouge**Limited Editions · the 2012 boutique edition](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Rouge)[**Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931**Models · the Rouge, Bleu and 1948 versions](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-ultrathin-1931)[**The lacquered colour dials**Models · the red dials of the 1930s](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-colour-dials) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/win-duoface Summary: A mother’s offer, a Reverso on final sale, and a promise to wait one week. The watch was gone. Almost twenty years later, another Reverso Duoface brought it… Updated: 2026-10-28 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Win # The Reverso That Waited Twenty Years A mother’s offer, a Reverso on final sale, and a promise to wait one week. The watch was gone. Almost twenty years later, another Reverso Duoface brought it all back. Experience ## The Reverso That Waited Twenty Years A mother’s offer, a Reverso on final sale, and a promise to wait one week. Almost twenty years later, another Reverso Duoface brought it all back. Reverso Duoface My story with the Reverso goes all the way back to high school, when I was just beginning to develop an interest in watches. At the time, my mother generously offered to buy me a Reverso Dual Time with an ostrich leather strap. I remember how much I wanted that watch, but I also remember feeling that, as a high school student, I didn't quite deserve something so valuable yet. The watch was on final sale because the shop was preparing to relocate in a few weeks. It was a wonderful opportunity, and deep down I really wanted to take it. But I couldn't quite bring myself to say yes to my mother's offer, so I came up with a little arrangement with myself. I told her that if the Reverso was still there the following week, I would take it as a sign that the watch was destined to be mine. I waited patiently for that week to pass, although I remember being terribly excited when the day finally arrived. I rushed back to the shop and asked the saleslady whether the Reverso was still available. She gave me a slight smile, and somehow I already knew what she was about to say. The watch had been sold to someone else just a week earlier. My heart sank. I had wanted it so badly, but I had also been the one who decided to wait, and now the opportunity was gone. Life went on, and over the years I more or less forgot about that little episode from my school days. Almost twenty years passed before I came across another version of the Reverso Duoface, and the moment I saw it, all those memories suddenly came rushing back. I remembered standing in that shop, my mother's generous offer, the excitement of waiting for a week, and the disappointment of finding out that the watch had already been sold. What surprised me most was how strongly I still felt about it after all those years. I had looked at and admired many watches since high school, but seeing that Reverso again made my heart pound in a way I hadn't expected. It reminded me not only of the watch I had wanted so much as a teenager, but also of my mother and a moment of generosity that I had never really forgotten. Nearly twenty years later, I realized that the Reverso had stayed with me much longer than I knew. ### About [Win](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/win) Win started looking at watches in high school. The first Reverso, a Dual Time on an ostrich strap, was a mother’s offer, set aside for a week and sold in the meantime. Almost twenty years on, a Reverso Duoface brought the whole moment back. More From This Collection [**Reverso Duoface**Models · 1994, two faces from one movement](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-duoface-1994)[**Reverso Tribute Duoface Small Seconds**Models · the Duoface today](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-duoface-ss-2025) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/finesttastes-india Summary: A 1930s Reverso sold through Favre-Leuba in colonial India, found in West Bengal in 2026. On its back, a blue lacquer border and the traces of an engraving… Updated: 2026-11-02 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @thefinesttastesclub # A Reverso from Another India A 1930s Reverso sold through Favre-Leuba in colonial India, found in West Bengal in 2026. On its back, a blue lacquer border and the traces of an engraving someone removed, for reasons that may never be known. Experience ## A Reverso from Another India A 1930s Reverso sold through Favre-Leuba, found in West Bengal in 2026, with the traces of a removed engraving on its back. Reverso, steel and gold, retailed by Favre-Leuba & Co., India · 1930s I have always considered the Reverso one of the most beautiful designs in watchmaking history, and this particular example is especially interesting to me because of its connection to India and a period of history that has long since passed. The watch dates to the 1930s and is a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso retailed through Favre-Leuba & Co. in India. It features a steel and gold case and is powered by the manually wound Calibre 410. What makes it particularly fascinating is that it comes from a time when India was still under British colonial rule, long before the country gained independence in 1947. The fact that such a watch was being sold in India during that period gives it a historical significance that goes well beyond its design or movement. I came across this example in West Bengal in 2026. One of its most interesting details is the reverse of the case, which has a beautiful blue lacquer border and the remnants of an engraving that was removed at some point during the watch’s life. I have no way of knowing what was originally engraved there, who owned the watch, or why someone eventually decided to remove it, but I find that mystery part of its charm. The traces of the engraving are still there, reminding me that this Reverso had a life long before it became part of my collection. For me, that is what makes collecting vintage watches so interesting. This Reverso is a beautiful example of a design that has remained relevant for nearly a century, but it is also a small piece of India’s watchmaking and retail history. It connects Jaeger-LeCoultre, Favre-Leuba, and the Indian market of the 1930s, while the marks on its caseback leave us with questions that may never be answered. I appreciate the watch for its design, but even more for the history it carries. Almost ninety years after it was first sold, it has found its way to me in West Bengal, still carrying the traces of a story that began in a very different India. ### About [@thefinesttastesclub](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/thefinesttastesclub) A collector known on Instagram as @thefinesttastesclub, drawn to the Reverso’s design and to the history it carries. This 1930s example, sold through Favre-Leuba in colonial India, turned up in West Bengal in 2026 with the traces of a removed engraving still on its back. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/thefinesttastesclub/) More From This Collection [**The Diplomat’s Reverso**Reverso monoface, steel — dial signed Golay Fils & Stahl](https://myreversostory.com/stories/sarp-titulescu)[**A Brown Dial from 1933**Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933)[**Retailer-signed and rebadged Reversos**Models · 1931–1948](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-retailer-signed)[**Reverso, LeCoultre-powered**Models · 1933, the arrival of the calibre 410](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-1933-410) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving Summary: A circular fleur-de-lis pattern, discovered during a dull lecture, had no business fitting a rectangular Reverso case — until an engraver in Switzerland… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # The Imperfect Engraving A circular fleur-de-lis pattern, discovered during a dull lecture, had no business fitting a rectangular Reverso case — until an engraver in Switzerland made it work. Then a friend spotted something a photograph never had. Experience ## The Imperfect Engraving A circular pattern found during a dull meeting, a rectangular caseback it had no business fitting, and the small unfinished patch a friend noticed a month later. The Chocolate Reverso When I ordered my Chocolate Reverso, I was given the option of having the reverse engraved. I didn’t immediately know what I wanted. I only knew that if I was going to engrave it, I wanted the watch to become mine in a way that another example never could. At the time, I was also waiting for my Roger Smith Series 2. Roger had previously sent me photographs of its dial, and somewhere in my memory I carried an impression of its pattern. I thought it would be wonderful if the engraving on the Reverso somehow echoed the Smith. Then, during a particularly uninteresting meeting at work, my mind began to wander. I started searching online for patterns and came across a fleur-de-lis design that immediately caught my attention. There was one problem: the pattern was circular, while the back of a Reverso was unmistakably rectangular. “Let’s send it to Switzerland and see what the engravers think,” JLC crew suggested. Within several weeks the watch arrived, I turned it over and there it was. The engraver had taken the circular design I had found during that boring meeting and reimagined it perfectly for the rectangular Reverso case. It was intricate, balanced and beautifully executed. I loved it! About a month later, I proudly showed the watch to a friend. We admired the engraving together until he noticed something I hadn’t. A small section wasn’t finished. Part of the stippling that appeared throughout the pattern was simply missing, and I wasn’t able to unsee it anymore. So my newly personalized Reverso made another journey, back to Switzerland. Thankfully, it returned quickly, this time with the engraving complete. Perhaps that little imperfection has become part of the story, because when it was finally finished, there could be no other Chocolate Reverso quite like mine. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**Number One — and the Piece of Lint**Grande Reverso Ultra Thin SQ](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-lint)[**The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought**Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-son Summary: Bought in 2017 and engraved with his own initials in 2023 — a year before his son was born. He has occasionally wished he had waited, and then decided the… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Farhan Hussain # My Son’s Reverso Bought in 2017 and engraved with his own initials in 2023 — a year before his son was born. He has occasionally wished he had waited, and then decided the initials were the better inheritance anyway. Experience ## My Son’s Reverso Bought in 2017, engraved with his own initials in 2023 — a year before his son was born. He has sometimes wished he had waited. Then he thought again. Reverso, black dial · 2017 I bought my black-dial Reverso in 2017 from an authorized dealer outside London. It wasn’t particularly easy to find at the time because relatively few had been made, so when I managed to get one, I was simply happy to have the watch. There was no larger story attached to it yet. Until 2023, several years after buying it, when I took the Reverso to the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique in London and decided to personalize the reverse with my initials. At the time, it seemed like the natural engraving to choose. Then my son was born in 2024, and honestly, I have occasionally wished that I had waited another year. Had I known, perhaps I would have put his name on the back instead, just as I had done with the Reverso I ordered after my daughter’s birth. The two watches would then have made a perfect pair, one carrying each child’s name. But the more I think about it, the less I mind. This Reverso will eventually belong to my son anyway, and when I pass it on to him, the initials on the back won’t simply be somebody’s initials, they will be his father’s. One day, I hope he will look at those initials and cherish them for precisely that reason. ### About [Farhan Hussain](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/farhan-hussain) Farhan Hussain collects from London, where two Reversos in his collection have become tied to his two children — one ordered a week after his daughter was born and personalised with her name, the other bought years earlier and engraved before his son arrived. More From This Collection [**My Daughter’s Reverso**Reverso with lacquered lettering](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son Summary: Bought with his wife during their honeymoon in Milan, with a promise made that same day: whenever a first child arrived, its initials and birth date would… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @decowatches # My Son’s Reverso Bought with his wife during their honeymoon in Milan, with a promise made that same day: whenever a first child arrived, its initials and birth date would go on the back. Three years later, he kept it. Experience ## My Son’s Reverso Bought on honeymoon in Milan, with a promise made the same day: the initials and birth date of a first child would go on the back. Three years later, it was kept. Reverso Classic, 45.6mm I bought this 45.6 mm Reverso Classic with my wife during our honeymoon in Milan. I had admired Reverso watches for quite some time, always finding myself drawn back to them, until I finally decided to make one mine. That same day, I told my wife that if we were ever fortunate enough to have a child, I would engrave the watch with the initials and birth date of our firstborn. Three years later, I was able to keep that promise. One day, this watch will pass on to our son. ### About [@decowatches](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/decowatches) A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @decowatches. His two engraved pieces trace two different threads of his life: a promise made to his wife on their honeymoon in Milan, and more than two decades spent playing guitar, including one professional stretch. A third, a steel Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, was love at first sight. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/decowatches/) More From This Collection [**The Gibson Guitar Reverso**Reverso Tribute, 40.1mm](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson)[**Love at First Sight**Reverso Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, stainless steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-tourbillon)[**Reverso Classic**Models · Small, Medium and Large, since 2016](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-classic-2016)[**Personalising the back of a Reverso**Engraving · what collectors did, and how long it took](https://myreversostory.com/engraving) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon Summary: One of fifty platinum Tribute Tourbillon Duofaces, all made with a blue dial. Through the Bangkok boutique this collector asked the Manufacture for salmon… Updated: 2026-10-27 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @jlc.reverso # The Tourbillon Made My Own One of fifty platinum Tribute Tourbillon Duofaces, all made with a blue dial. Through the Bangkok boutique this collector asked the Manufacture for salmon instead, and waited more than a year to see it. Experience ## The Tourbillon Made My Own One of fifty platinum Tribute Tourbillon Duofaces, all made with a blue dial. Through the Bangkok boutique, a request for salmon instead, and more than a year of patience. Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial · Ref. Q3926480 · 2018 The 2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, Ref. Q3926480, is one of the most personal pieces in my Reverso collection. Created for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 185th anniversary, the platinum model was limited to 50 pieces and combined the Duoface concept with a flying tourbillon, powered by the manually wound Calibre 847. The original edition was presented with a deep blue dial. While I greatly admired the watch, I envisioned it with a warmer and more personal character. Through the JLC boutique team in Bangkok, I requested that the Manufacture create a special salmon-colored dial in place of the standard blue. I coordinated my preferences with the Manufacture through the boutique team, particularly regarding the tone of the salmon dial and how it would complement the platinum case and tourbillon. After more than a year of patience, the completed watch was delivered, and the result was exactly what I had hoped for. The salmon dial gives the watch an entirely different personality while remaining faithful to the original design. This piece reminds me that the true value of collecting is often found in the story behind the watch, the experience of acquiring it, and the personal meaning it continues to carry over time. ### About [@jlc.reverso](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso) A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) More From This Collection [**The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn**Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun)[**Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries**Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” (rose gold) and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” (steel)](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait)[**A Brown Dial from 1933**Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933)[**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface**Limited Editions · 50 pieces, platinum](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tourbillon%20Duoface)[**The 185th-anniversary Tribute**Models · the Tourbillon Duoface in the Reverso’s history](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-tourbillon-duoface)[**Reverso Grande Taille Tourbillon**Limited Editions · 1993, from the 500-piece series](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Grande%20Taille%20Tourbillon) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-my-engraving Summary: A pattern Mitch thought was his alone nearly went to someone else — until the manufacture realized the second request was from the same client. Today it… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # My Engraving A pattern Mitch thought was his alone nearly went to someone else — until the manufacture realized the second request was from the same client. Today it appears, with quiet variations, on four different Reversos. Experience ## My Engraving A pattern promised to one client alone, a second request the manufacture stopped — and the discovery that both had come from the same man. Reverso Tribute Small Seconds, burgundy By the time I saw the burgundy Reverso Tribute Small Seconds, I already owned several Reversos. That didn’t seem to matter. Jaeger-LeCoultre had made other red Reversos before, but the brighter reds had never appealed to me. The burgundy was deeper and warmer, paired with a matching leather strap and a stainless-steel case. I didn’t own a steel Reverso and that was enough justification for me. I knew almost immediately that I wanted it. And I also knew what belonged on the reverse: the same fleur-de-lis pattern that had begun years earlier with my Chocolate Reverso. By now, that engraving had become something of a signature. There was only one problem, as there always is with me. The manufacture had promised that the design belonged to one client and would not be reproduced for anyone else. Someone in the engraving department saw another request for the same pattern and stopped the process. Stephanie, the JLC boutique manger, had to explain: It was the same client: me. Only after the manufacture was satisfied that I was, in fact, asking for my own engraving again did they agree to proceed. Today, that pattern appears on four of my Reversos. At first glance, the engravings look the same, but they aren’t. Different metals respond differently beneath an engraver’s hand, as each interpret the same lines in subtly different ways. Look closely and each has its own small variations, which makes it more meaningful. What began as an image discovered almost accidentally has followed me through years of collecting and across several very different Reversos. Some collectors recognize a watch by its reference number, I can turn mine over and recognize something else, a little piece of myself. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought**Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch)[**The Imperfect Engraving**The Chocolate Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving)[**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Reverso Tribute family**Models · Tribute Small Seconds among them](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-2016)[**The lacquered colour dials**Models · burgundy and red in the 1930s](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-colour-dials) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-mucha Summary: Mucha’s Spring in grand feu enamel, one of only eight. After a long search for a yellow-gold Reverso with guilloché and enamel, this collector chose Spring… Updated: 2026-10-28 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @jlc.reverso # A Reverso for Spring Mucha’s Spring in grand feu enamel, one of only eight. After a long search for a yellow-gold Reverso with guilloché and enamel, this collector chose Spring for its colours and for what the season means: renewal, and a new beginning. Experience ## A Reverso for Spring Mucha’s Spring in grand feu enamel, one of only eight, chosen for its colours and for what the season means. Reverso Tribute Enamel Alfons Mucha “Spring”, yellow gold · Ref. Q39314M2 · 2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre has always used the Reverso as a canvas for artistic expression, and its guilloché and enamel pieces are among the examples I admire most. In 2018, the Manufacture paid tribute to Czech Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha with three Reverso Tribute Enamel pieces inspired by his celebrated 1896 series The Seasons: Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Each version was produced in only eight pieces. The “Spring” version is housed in yellow gold. On the front, a sunburst guilloché pattern is covered by translucent Grand Feu enamel, while the reverse features a miniature enamel reproduction of Mucha’s Spring, surrounded by intricate hand engraving. More than 100 hours of craftsmanship were required for the enamel and engraving alone. For some time, I had been looking for a yellow-gold Reverso combining guilloché and enamel. I find this combination particularly beautiful, and it is something Jaeger-LeCoultre has produced only very selectively. Among the three Mucha pieces, I chose Spring not only because of its colors and how naturally they complement the warmth of yellow gold, but also because of what the season represents. Spring carries the idea of renewal, growth, optimism, and a new beginning. Mucha expresses this through a young woman beneath a blossoming tree, surrounded by the freshness and delicacy of the new season. I have always liked watches that carry a positive meaning beyond their aesthetics, and this symbolism made Spring the natural choice for me. The fact that only eight examples were made certainly adds to its rarity, but that was never the main reason I wanted it. For me, this Reverso brings together several things I particularly appreciate about Jaeger-LeCoultre: traditional craftsmanship, artistic expression, rarity, and, most importantly, a story and meaning that make the watch much more personal. ### About [@jlc.reverso](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso) A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) More From This Collection [**A Brown Dial from 1933**Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933)[**The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn**Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun)[**The Tourbillon Made My Own**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon)[**Reverso Tribute Enamel — Alfons Mucha**Series · Spring, Summer and Autumn, 2018](https://myreversostory.com/series/alfons-mucha)[**The Mucha Seasons**Limited Editions · 8 pieces per reference](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Q39314M2)[**Reverso “Four Seasons”, 1996**Series · the first Mucha set, all four seasons](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-four-seasons-1996) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch Summary: Over lunch at the Shanghai Film Festival, Mitch sketched his own watch on a napkin and pitched it to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO that same evening. The napkin… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought Over lunch at the Shanghai Film Festival, Mitch sketched his own watch on a napkin and pitched it to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO that same evening. The napkin watch never happened — but a boutique visit to borrow a watch for a podcast ended, somehow, with him buying it instead. Experience ## The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought A watch sketched on a napkin over lunch in Shanghai and pitched to the CEO that evening — and another watch, borrowed for a podcast, that somehow never went back. Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale Linda and I had been invited to the Shanghai Film Festival, which Jaeger-LeCoultre was sponsoring, and during a break we wandered away from the official events to find lunch. We ended up at a quiet restaurant in a garden setting and ordered something we were not entirely sure about. While we waited for the food, I started drawing on a napkin. I sketched a watch that I called the Duomètre Alarme du Jour, with the time displayed on the right side of the dial and an alarm indication on the left. The idea was that the alarm could be set for a specific time during the day and, beyond that, for a particular day of the week or to repeat every day. That evening, at the Jaeger-LeCoultre gala, I showed the drawing to several senior people from the company, including the CEO, and enthusiastically explained what I thought the watch could do. They seemed interested, although I have always suspected they were just being polite. When I returned home, I eventually gave the napkin drawing to the US brand president. After that, I lost track of it. I never expected Jaeger-LeCoultre to put my name on a watch or even to produce the idea exactly as I had drawn it. What I really wanted, and still would enjoy, was simply a couple of hours with a designer and an engineer to find out whether the concept could actually work. That Duomètre never materialized, but not long afterward another Jaeger-LeCoultre did. I had been invited onto a podcast to talk about my experiences as a collector, and before heading to the recording I stopped at the boutique to see Stephanie. She had just received a Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale and brought it out to show me. It was an unusual Reverso, inspired by a model from the 1930s, with a multilayered dial and a central seconds hand rather than the more familiar small-seconds display at six o’clock. Even more unusual for a Reverso, it contained possibly the first and only automatic movement. Stephanie suggested that I wear it to the podcast, so I wore it. By the end of the evening, I liked the watch considerably more than I had when I first put it on. Then Jaeger-LeCoultre made the decision even more difficult for me. They offered to engrave the back of the watch with the same fleur-de-lis pattern that appeared on my Chocolate Reverso, an engraving they had already told me would remain exclusive to my watches. At that point, I was probably finished. I had gone into the boutique to say hello, borrowed a watch for a podcast, and somehow ended up buying it. Once again, I had participated in what was supposed to be a conversation about watches and managed to sell one to myself. I really am an excellent salesman. At least when the customer is me. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**My Engraving**Reverso Tribute Small Seconds, burgundy](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-my-engraving)[**The Imperfect Engraving**The Chocolate Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving)[**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale “Wakaya”**Limited Editions · the same base model, as a commission](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Seconde%20Centrale) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano Summary: Edi and Deni went to New York with another brand’s watch already picked out for Deni. They came home instead with a limited-edition Reverso Duoface they had… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli # The Reverso That Started It All Edi and Deni went to New York with another brand’s watch already picked out for Deni. They came home instead with a limited-edition Reverso Duoface they had specifically told the boutique they weren’t buying — and it became the one watch in the house Edi still isn’t allowed to wear. Experience ## The Reverso That Started It All A week in a quiet New York, a watch already picked out at another boutique — and the Reverso they had told Sheila they weren’t coming to buy. Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano · 2021 Jaeger-LeCoultre was not new to us when we started interacting with the brand and the Reverso. We had known and admired the brand for years and already owned a few vintage pieces. What attracted us was what Jaeger-LeCoultre represented as a watchmaker, particularly its history of movement making and the enormous variety of watches and complications it had created. But our relationship with the brand, and the Reverso, really began in 2020, during a year when almost everything else in our lives was changing. Deni had just finished her PhD when, shortly afterward, we discovered that she was pregnant with our first child. We were thrilled. Then, almost immediately, the world shut down. Like everyone else, we suddenly found ourselves living through something none of us had experienced before. There was COVID, lockdown, uncertainty and, in the middle of all of it, a pregnancy and the anticipation of becoming parents for the first time. On December 26, our son, Brion, was born. The best day of our lives. We wanted watches to mark that chapter of our lives, not simply because of his birth, but because of everything that surrounded it. For me, we chose a Vacheron Constantin Historiques 1942. For Deni, we decided to wait. Once Brion had received the vaccinations he needed and we finally felt comfortable traveling with him, I planned a week in New York in April 2021. After such a long year at home, the trip itself felt special. I had made appointments at several watch boutiques so that Deni could try different pieces and choose the watch that would always remind her of becoming a mother. New York was still strangely quiet. Masks were everywhere, many places remained closed, and boutiques were often seeing only one client at a time. It was certainly not the New York we remembered. One of our appointments was at Jaeger-LeCoultre. We met Sheila, the boutique manager, and were very open with her from the beginning. We told her that we loved Jaeger-LeCoultre and wanted to visit, but that this particular watch for Deni was probably going to come from another brand. We already had something else in mind. She couldn’t have been nicer about it. Then she brought out a Reverso, and not just any Reverso — she brought out a limited-edition Reverso Duoface created with Casa Fagliano, in pink gold, with a deep burgundy dial on one side and a contrasting white dial on the other. Deni loved it immediately; it just spoke to her. Still, we had come to New York with another watch in mind, so we thanked Sheila and went to our appointment at the other boutique. Once there, however, everything felt different. The experience wasn’t particularly warm, to say the least, and when Deni finally had the watch we had been talking about for so long in front of her, the connection simply wasn’t there. Maybe it was the watch, but not really: it was the experience. Watches are about experience and memories, and that experience was not inviting. Whatever the reason, she looked at me and said she didn’t want the watch she had in mind anymore. We went back to the hotel, and I wrote to Sheila: “Do you still have the Reverso?” She did, and she said she was waiting for us the next day. We returned to Jaeger-LeCoultre and bought the watch we had specifically told Sheila we weren’t coming to buy. More than five years later, it remains one of the most important watches in our collection, although calling it part of “our” collection requires some clarification. It is Deni’s, completely. She loves it so much that this is the only watch I am not allowed to wear. What we couldn’t have known that day was how much that one decision would shape our collecting afterward. We had owned vintage Jaeger-LeCoultre watches before, but this was our first Reverso. It opened a door that never really closed. More Reversos followed, and our relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre became an increasingly important part of our life as collectors. Today, with all the watches that have come afterward, this one still occupies its own place. We bought it to remember the birth of our son after one of the strangest and most difficult years of our lives. Instead, it also became the beginning of another story we hadn’t planned at all: Our Reverso Story. ### About [Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/edi-deni-shipoli) For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them are usually the ones that became connected to something else: a place, a friendship, a journey, an achievement, the birth of their son Brion, or simply a moment in their lives that they wanted to remember. Their relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre began with an appreciation for the brand long before they seriously began collecting Reversos — they owned vintage pieces and admired the company’s history as a watchmaker and movement maker, but the Reverso gradually became something much more personal. That story really began in 2021, when Edi and Deni traveled to New York after an extraordinary year: Deni had completed her PhD, they had lived through the uncertainty of the pandemic, and in December 2020 their son Brion had been born. They went to New York looking for a watch to commemorate his birth and came home having unexpectedly begun a relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. That way of looking at watches sits naturally beside Edi and Deni’s work as the creators of *Watches & Politics*, a project exploring horology through history, culture, diplomacy, economics, power, and the people and institutions that shape the watch world. [Edi on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shipoli_e/)[Brion on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brionandwatches/)[Watches & Politics — YouTube](https://youtube.com/@WatchesAndPolitics)[Watches & Politics — Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7uFPFIcvfG8IwrbhXMNcjl)[Watches & Politics — Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watches-and-politics/id1822610214)[Watches & Politics — website](https://www.shipoliventures.com/watchesandpolitics) More From This Collection [**The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme)[**Our Istanbul**Reverso Tribute Monoface, green dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul)[**The Call Before the Appointment**Reverso Tribute Chronograph, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph)[**Our First Watches and Wonders**Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic)[**Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano**Limited Editions · the Fagliano editions](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Fagliano)[**Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano**Models · 2016, polo straps from Casa Fagliano](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-duoface-fagliano) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101 Summary: A friend mentioned a watch Mitch had never really considered — and before lunch was over, he’d tracked down the last one in existence. It turned out to be… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # Number One of Five A friend mentioned a watch Mitch had never really considered — and before lunch was over, he’d tracked down the last one in existence. It turned out to be number one of only five ever made, the smallest mechanical movement in the world floating inside a transparent sapphire case. Experience ## Number One of Five A friend mentions a Reverso over lunch. Before the meal is over, a phone has found the smallest mechanical movement in the world, floating in sapphire — and only five were made. Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco · Ref. 240.3.70 · 2011 At a gathering of collectors, my friend Mark mentioned a Reverso I had never considered before: the Reverso 101. He knew my interest in Jaeger-LeCoultre and thought it might intrigue me. It did. While the conversation moved on, I quietly reached for my phone and started searching. I still haven’t decided whether a smartphone is a wonderful thing for a watch collector or a very dangerous one. Within minutes, I had discovered something extraordinary. Inside the Reverso 101 was Jaeger-LeCoultre’s legendary Calibre 101, created in 1929 and famous for being the smallest mechanical movement in the world. But here, instead of being hidden inside a jeweled bracelet, the tiny movement was suspended within a transparent sapphire case, visible from both sides and decorated by hand. Only five had been made. Before lunch was even over, I sent a photograph to my contact at the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique. The watch had been released years earlier, so neither of us had much hope. She said she would see what she could find. Two weeks later, they had found one, and not just any one, they had found number one. Collectors can become strangely attached to numbers. The first piece in a tiny series carries a particular magic, and being offered number one of five felt almost impossible. The watch was quickly sent from Switzerland to the boutique in LA. It had originally been conceived as a woman’s watch, but that didn’t matter much to me. I loved the art deco design, the extraordinary little movement floating inside the sapphire case, the mother-of-pearl, and the sheer oddness of the whole thing. Years later, I still wear it happily. And despite its original designation, nobody has ever told me that I am wearing a woman’s watch. At least, not out loud. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**The Imperfect Engraving**The Chocolate Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving)[**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco**Limited Editions · Ref. 240.3.70, 5 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=240.3.70)[**Grande Reverso 101**Models · the smallest movement, in a Grande case](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-grande-101)[**Reverso 101 “Les Folies”**Series · the 101 in ten jewelled versions](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-101-les-folies) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic Summary: Three Reversos on the shortlist after Watches & Wonders 2025, two boutique visits in one week, and one that kept drawing him back: the Tribute Geographic, a… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Robin Tong Lin Wong # The Reverso That Won Me Over Three Reversos on the shortlist after Watches & Wonders 2025, two boutique visits in one week, and one that kept drawing him back: the Tribute Geographic, a blue sunburst dial on one side and a hand-lacquered world map on the other. Experience ## The Reverso That Won Me Over Three Reversos on a shortlist, two visits to the boutique in one week, and the one that kept drawing him back. Reverso Tribute Geographic · 2025 Jaeger-LeCoultre has always been my favorite maison, and the Reverso is easily one of my favorite watch lines ever created. When I heard that 2025 was going to be a big year for Reverso releases at Watches & Wonders, I was naturally excited. It was also the first Watches & Wonders since Jérôme Lambert returned to the helm of Jaeger-LeCoultre, something I was genuinely thrilled about. His return made the occasion even more special for me, and I knew I wanted to add one of the new Reversos to my collection, provided I could find something within my budget. I was fortunate enough to try on most of the new Reversos shortly after Watches & Wonders 2025, including the beautiful rose gold Or Deco with its Milanese bracelet. Choosing wasn’t easy, and I eventually narrowed it down to three favorites: the black dial Duoface, the Tribute Geographic, and the Or Deco. I visited the boutique twice over the course of a week, taking my time with each of them, but the Geographic kept drawing me back. I loved its horological complexity, particularly the fascinating Geographic complication and the gorgeous hand-lacquered world map on the reverse. The front was just as appealing, with its sunburst blue dial and big date display. There was something about having such a beautiful, classical Reverso on one side and that extraordinary world map on the other that made it stand out from the rest. In the end, the Geographic won me over. Of the three watches I had shortlisted, it felt like the most special one to add to my collection, and I was delighted with my decision. That didn’t mean I had forgotten about the Or Deco, though. I had been equally impressed by its elegant design and Milanese bracelet, so I decided to keep it on my wish list for another day. As it turned out, that day came in 2026, when I finally added the Or Deco to my collection as well. Looking back, I suppose choosing between those two Reversos was never really about deciding which one I loved more. It was simply a matter of which one I would bring home first. ### About [Robin Tong Lin Wong](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/robin-tong-lin-wong) Robin Tong Lin Wong collects from Singapore, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has always been his favourite maison. His most personal Reverso marks a professional milestone rather than a family one: the technology startup he backed as an investor and joined as an early employee, and the exit that followed. Two more came from the 2025 Watches & Wonders releases: the Tribute Geographic he chose that year, and the Or Deco he could not forget and brought home the next. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/watchthebin/) More From This Collection [**Our First Watches and Wonders**Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic)[**The Reverso I Couldn’t Forget**Reverso Or Deco Milanese](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-or-deco)[**A Reverso for a Milestone**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-nonantieme)[**Reverso Tribute Geographic, pink gold**Limited Editions · 150 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tribute%20Geographic%2C%20pink%20gold)[**Reverso Tribute Geographic**Models · 2025](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-geographic)[**Reverso Grande Taille Geographic**Limited Editions · the 1998 original, 500 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Grande%20Taille%20Geographic) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-tourbillon Summary: First seen on Jérôme Lambert’s wrist at a boutique event in 2025, and ordered just under three months later: a flying tourbillon in a steel Reverso, and a… Updated: 2026-11-02 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @decowatches # Love at First Sight First seen on Jérôme Lambert’s wrist at a boutique event in 2025, and ordered just under three months later: a flying tourbillon in a steel Reverso, and a watch he knows will never leave his collection. Experience ## Love at First Sight Seen on Jérôme Lambert’s wrist in 2025, ordered just under three months later, and never leaving. Reverso Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, stainless steel · Ref. Q392845J · 2024 I first saw this Reverso on Jérôme Lambert’s wrist at a Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique event in 2025, and it was love at first sight. I have always adored the original Reverso Tourbillon from the 1990s, so seeing this modern interpretation immediately caught my attention. There was something about the combination of the Reverso’s classical design and the flying tourbillon that I simply couldn’t get out of my head. I kept thinking about it long after the event, and just under three months later, I finally placed my order. What makes this watch particularly special to me is how much Jaeger-LeCoultre has managed to achieve within a stainless steel Reverso. On one side, the grey sunray-finished, openworked dial beautifully showcases the flying tourbillon, allowing you to admire the movement in action. Turn the case over, and there is another openworked dial with stunning hand-guilloché decoration, along with a white dial displaying the seconds disc, second time zone, and day/night indicator. I love that both sides offer something completely different, yet feel equally impressive. It is a wonderful example of how the Reverso’s original concept can accommodate some of the most sophisticated complications in watchmaking. For me, this Reverso represents the pinnacle of watchmaking. Perhaps part of what makes it so special is that it reminds me of the original Reverso Tourbillon that I have admired for so many years, while offering an entirely different and more contemporary interpretation. I knew how much I wanted it from the moment I saw it on Jérôme Lambert’s wrist, and that feeling never went away. Some watches come and go as a collection evolves, but this is one that I know will never leave mine. ### About [@decowatches](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/decowatches) A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @decowatches. His two engraved pieces trace two different threads of his life: a promise made to his wife on their honeymoon in Milan, and more than two decades spent playing guitar, including one professional stretch. A third, a steel Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, was love at first sight. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/decowatches/) More From This Collection [**The Gibson Guitar Reverso**Reverso Tribute, 40.1mm](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson)[**The Tourbillon Made My Own**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon)[**My Son’s Reverso**Reverso Classic, 45.6mm](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son)[**Reverso Tourbillon**Models · 1993, the original he always admired](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tourbillon-1993)[**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface**Models · 2018, the 50-piece forerunner](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-tourbillon-duoface) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait Summary: Two anniversaries in one year, written into the production numbers: 25 in rose gold for the liberation, 55 in steel for the nation. Both wear a deep green… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @jlc.reverso # Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries Two anniversaries in one year, written into the production numbers: 25 in rose gold for the liberation, 55 in steel for the nation. Both wear a deep green dial with scarlet numerals, and this collector found one of each. Experience ## Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries Two anniversaries in one year, written into the production numbers: 25 in rose gold for the liberation of Kuwait, 55 in steel for the nation. One collector found both. Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” (rose gold) and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” (steel) · Ref. 278.2.56 · 278.8.56 · 2016 The Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” are an important part of my Reverso collection because I was fortunate to acquire both versions created for the occasion: the rose gold edition limited to 25 pieces and the stainless steel edition limited to 55 pieces. The year 2016 marked two important anniversaries in Kuwait’s modern history: 55 years since its independence in 1961 and 25 years since its liberation in 1991 following the Gulf War. Jaeger-LeCoultre reflected these two milestones through the production numbers themselves, creating 55 examples in stainless steel and 25 in rose gold. What immediately distinguishes these watches is their deep green dial, a color that gives the Reverso an unusually rich and distinctive character. The design retains many of the classical codes associated with the historic Reverso while introducing more contemporary details, including the guilloché decoration at the center and elegant sword-shaped hands. One of my favorite details is the use of scarlet red for the numerals at 2 and 5 o’clock. Together, they form a subtle reference to the 25th anniversary of Kuwait’s liberation. Against the green dial, the red accents also recall two of the principal colors of the Kuwaiti national flag, giving the watch an additional layer of cultural meaning without making the symbolism overly explicit. For me, owning both the 25-piece rose gold edition and the 55-piece stainless steel edition makes the story especially interesting. They are two interpretations of the same historical moment, expressed through different materials and different production numbers, yet united by a common design and cultural identity. This is precisely the kind of Reverso that attracts me as a collector. Beyond its rarity or aesthetics, it tells a story about a particular place and moment in history and shows how Jaeger-LeCoultre has used the Reverso as a canvas for cultural memory as well as watchmaking. ### About [@jlc.reverso](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso) A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) More From This Collection [**The Tourbillon Made My Own**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon)[**The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn**Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun)[**A Brown Dial from 1933**Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933)[**The Reverso That Changed Everything**Reverso 60ème, Grande Taille](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-60eme)[**The two Kuwait editions**Limited Editions · 25 in rose gold, 55 in steel](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Kuwait)[**National anniversary editions**Limited Editions · made for countries and cities](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=National%20anniversary%20editions) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface Summary: For years, Linda called herself a “watch widow” — happy to love the man, not the hobby. Mitch spent months looking for the one Reverso that might change her… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # The Watch Widow For years, Linda called herself a “watch widow” — happy to love the man, not the hobby. Mitch spent months looking for the one Reverso that might change her mind, right down to a buckle she could swap herself. Experience ## The Watch Widow For years Linda loved the man and not the hobby. Mitch spent months looking for the one watch that might change her mind — right down to a buckle on every strap. Reverso Duoface For many years, watches were my world, not Linda’s. She would occasionally join me for events, especially when we were hosting something ourselves, but I always suspected she was participating more because she loved me than because she loved watches. She proudly called herself a “watch widow.” After a couple of such declarations, I began a campaign. I wanted to buy my wife a beautiful watch. Linda wanted absolutely nothing to do with the idea, and most of the pieces traditionally marketed to women made the problem worse. Add diamonds, make the dial pink or pastel, and suddenly it becomes a “lady’s watch.” I knew she would never want anything flashy. She certainly wouldn’t wear something to work that felt extravagant or drew too much attention. Eventually, after presenting her with more options than she probably wanted to see, I found one she was willing to accept: a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Duoface. There were diamonds, but they were subtle enough for her. The watch was elegant rather than flashy. And because a Reverso can take on an entirely different personality with a new strap, I added several straps in different colors. I even put a buckle on every one so she could change them herself, depending on what she was wearing or simply how she felt that day. Finally, Linda said yes. For me, it was a small victory. But over time, the watch came to mean something more. Linda had begun this journey as the self-described “watch widow,” sitting beside a husband who could happily spend an evening discussing watches she had little interest in understanding. Now there was a Reverso on her wrist. It was about finding the watch that felt like hers. And perhaps that is one of the nicest things a watch can become: not simply something another person loves and gives to you, but something you slowly make your own. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**Linda Said I Had to Buy It**Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-repeater)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**Reverso Duoface**Models · two dials, one movement, 1994](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-duoface-1994)[**Reverso Tribute Duoface Small Seconds**Models · the 2025 Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-duoface-ss-2025)[**Duoface limited editions**Limited Editions · every numbered Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Duoface) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme Summary: A weekend in New York with a nine-month-old Brion in tow, a watch that looked classical on one side and radically modern on the other, and a passing joke to… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli # The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made A weekend in New York with a nine-month-old Brion in tow, a watch that looked classical on one side and radically modern on the other, and a passing joke to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO about naming a Reverso Memovox after himself. Edi is still waiting on that last one. Experience ## The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made A long weekend in New York with a nine-month-old in tow, a watch classical on one side and unexpected on the other — and a passing joke to the CEO about a Reverso Memovox. Reverso Tribute Nonantième · 2021 Our first Reverso had opened the door to a much deeper relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. We had become friends with the people at the boutique, especially Sheila, and as the world slowly began to open again after COVID, watches became part of the way we started reconnecting with people and with life outside our home. Later in 2021, Jaeger-LeCoultre invited us to The Sound Maker exhibition in New York, a celebration of the manufacture’s long history of making watches that could be heard as well as seen: minute repeaters, chiming watches and, of course, the Memovox. That last part already meant something to us. We had started our journey with Jaeger-LeCoultre by collecting vintage Memovoxes, although our collection was still relatively modest at the time. Today, we own considerably more Memovoxes than any normal couple probably should. But the weekend was special for another reason. Brion came with us. He was only about nine months old, and after everything we had experienced during the previous year, being able to travel together and bring our baby into this world that we loved felt wonderful. He came to the events with us, joined us on a boat trip, and somehow became part of the Jaeger-LeCoultre experience before he was even old enough to know what a watch was. We spent a long weekend in New York, saw the exhibition, met members of the Jaeger-LeCoultre team who had come from Switzerland and were given the opportunity to handle some of the new watches before they had become widely available. There were extraordinary pieces there, including the Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater, but one watch kept pulling us back: the Reverso Tribute Nonantième. It had been created for the ninetieth anniversary of the Reverso, ninety years after the original appeared in 1931. On the front, it was everything we loved about a classical Reverso: elegant, restrained, with a date and moon-phase display. Then you turned it over to see the unexpected. Instead of another conventional dial, there was a jumping-hour display accompanied by minutes and a beautiful blue-lacquered day-and-night indication. It somehow looked modern and Art Deco at the same time. At that point in our collecting, it was considerably more expensive than the watches we would normally have considered buying. Deni, my enabler and partner in “crime,” told me I had to have it. Even after all the watches we have seen and handled in the years since, I still come back to the same conclusion I reached when I first saw the Nonantième: for me, it may simply be the most beautiful watch ever made. A few months later, another chapter of the story came together. Jaeger-LeCoultre invited us to Los Angeles for the opening of its new boutique in the spring of 2022, and the team managed to have the Nonantième delivered just before the trip. Once again, the three of us traveled together. Brion was now a little over a year old. Deni wore the burgundy Casa Fagliano Duoface that had started our Reverso journey, and I wore the Nonantième. By coincidence, both watches were limited to 190 pieces. By then, something else had happened that we could never have anticipated when we first walked into the New York boutique. People we had originally met through Jaeger-LeCoultre had become genuine friends, some eventually feeling more like family. What had started with an interest in watches had grown into relationships and memories that had very little to do with buying anything. During the Los Angeles weekend, I found myself talking with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO at the time, Catherine Rénier. At one point she asked me what watch I would like Jaeger-LeCoultre to make. For me, the answer was obvious: we collected Memovoxes. We loved Reversos. Why not make a Reverso Memovox? I even told her I wasn’t asking for much — they could simply name the model after me. She laughed and kindly said she would ask at the manufacture whether such a thing could be made. I told her that if Jaeger-LeCoultre could make the Nonantième, I was quite sure they could make anything. I am still waiting for my Reverso Memovox. But I have the Nonantième. And every time I turn its case over, I still see the watch that stopped both of us in our tracks in New York, at a time when our son was nine months old and the world was finally beginning to open again. Years and many watches later, I haven’t changed my mind. For me, it is still the most beautiful watch ever made. ### About [Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/edi-deni-shipoli) For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them are usually the ones that became connected to something else: a place, a friendship, a journey, an achievement, the birth of their son Brion, or simply a moment in their lives that they wanted to remember. Their relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre began with an appreciation for the brand long before they seriously began collecting Reversos — they owned vintage pieces and admired the company’s history as a watchmaker and movement maker, but the Reverso gradually became something much more personal. That story really began in 2021, when Edi and Deni traveled to New York after an extraordinary year: Deni had completed her PhD, they had lived through the uncertainty of the pandemic, and in December 2020 their son Brion had been born. They went to New York looking for a watch to commemorate his birth and came home having unexpectedly begun a relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. That way of looking at watches sits naturally beside Edi and Deni’s work as the creators of *Watches & Politics*, a project exploring horology through history, culture, diplomacy, economics, power, and the people and institutions that shape the watch world. [Edi on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shipoli_e/)[Brion on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brionandwatches/)[Watches & Politics — YouTube](https://youtube.com/@WatchesAndPolitics)[Watches & Politics — Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7uFPFIcvfG8IwrbhXMNcjl)[Watches & Politics — Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watches-and-politics/id1822610214)[Watches & Politics — website](https://www.shipoliventures.com/watchesandpolitics) More From This Collection [**The Reverso That Started It All**Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano)[**Our Istanbul**Reverso Tribute Monoface, green dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul)[**The Call Before the Appointment**Reverso Tribute Chronograph, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph)[**Our First Watches and Wonders**Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic)[**Reverso Tribute Nonantième**Limited Editions · 190 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tribute%20Nonanti%C3%A8me)[**Reverso Tribute Nonantième**Models · the 90th-anniversary piece, 2021](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-nonantieme) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-or-deco Summary: He chose the Geographic in 2025, but the Or Deco Milanese he had handled as a prototype would not leave his head. A year later he ordered one; it arrived in… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Robin Tong Lin Wong # The Reverso I Couldn’t Forget He chose the Geographic in 2025, but the Or Deco Milanese he had handled as a prototype would not leave his head. A year later he ordered one; it arrived in June 2026 and has hardly left his wrist since. Experience ## The Reverso I Couldn’t Forget He chose another Reverso in 2025. The Or Deco Milanese stayed on his mind for a year, arrived in June 2026, and has hardly left his wrist since. Reverso Or Deco Milanese · 2025 I fell in love with the Reverso Or Deco Milanese the moment I saw it in person at Watches & Wonders 2025. Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced several beautiful Reversos that year, and at that time I decided to go with the Reverso Tribute Geographic. I was drawn to its impressive horological complexity and the stunning lacquered world map on the reverse dial. A year after having the opportunity to handle a prototype of the Or Deco Milanese, I could never quite get it out of my head. There was something about the purity of its design and that beautifully crafted Milanese bracelet that stayed with me. Eventually, I gave in and placed an order. Of course, ordering it was one thing, and receiving it was another. It took until June 2026 for the watch to arrive, so patience was definitely required! But it was worth the wait, and it has dominated my wrist time ever since. What I particularly love is the bracelet. It is incredibly comfortable, with a silky, finely finished feel, yet surprisingly robust despite its elegant and dressy appearance. It also has the advantage of being easily adjustable without adding or removing links, which makes it a perfect watch to share. Although I should probably offer a fair warning to the gentlemen considering one: your partner might try to claim it! I have always loved the Reverso, but there is something particularly appealing about the simplicity of the Or Deco design combined with such an exceptionally well-made bracelet. I originally thought the Geographic would be my favorite, and I still love that watch, but the Or Deco Milanese turned out to be the one I simply couldn’t forget. Between its understated elegance, incredible comfort, and the amount of time it has spent on my wrist since arriving, it has easily become one of my all-time favorite Reversos. ### About [Robin Tong Lin Wong](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/robin-tong-lin-wong) Robin Tong Lin Wong collects from Singapore, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has always been his favourite maison. His most personal Reverso marks a professional milestone rather than a family one: the technology startup he backed as an investor and joined as an early employee, and the exit that followed. Two more came from the 2025 Watches & Wonders releases: the Tribute Geographic he chose that year, and the Or Deco he could not forget and brought home the next. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/watchthebin/) More From This Collection [**The Reverso That Won Me Over**Reverso Tribute Geographic](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic)[**A Reverso for a Milestone**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-nonantieme)[**Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds**Models · gold, on a Milanese mesh bracelet](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-monoface-ss-2025) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-60eme Summary: Five hundred pieces for the Reverso’s sixtieth birthday, and three firsts at once: the Grande Taille case, the first complications in a series Reverso, and… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @jlc.reverso # The Reverso That Changed Everything Five hundred pieces for the Reverso’s sixtieth birthday, and three firsts at once: the Grande Taille case, the first complications in a series Reverso, and the first sapphire back. Every complicated Reverso since starts here. Experience ## The Reverso That Changed Everything Five hundred pieces for the Reverso’s sixtieth birthday in 1991: a bigger case, the first complications, the first sapphire back, and the start of every complicated Reverso since. Reverso 60ème, Grande Taille · Ref. 270.2.64 · 1991 The 1991 Reverso 60ème is especially meaningful to me as a collector because it marks a turning point in the Reverso’s modern history. Created for the model’s 60th anniversary and limited to 500 pieces, it introduced the larger Grande Taille case and became the first serially produced Reverso with complications: power reserve, pointer date, and small seconds. Its gold Calibre 824 was also visible through a sapphire caseback, another Reverso first. Most importantly, the 60ème established the foundation for the complicated Reversos that followed, including the Tourbillon, Minute Repeater, Chronographe Rétrograde, Géographique, and Quantième Perpétuel. That historical role is central to its collecting value. Its importance lies not only in its limited production and age, but in representing the moment when Jaeger-LeCoultre transformed the Reverso from an iconic design into a serious platform for haute horlogerie. ### About [@jlc.reverso](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso) A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) More From This Collection [**The Tourbillon Made My Own**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon)[**The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn**Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun)[**Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries**Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” (rose gold) and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” (steel)](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait)[**A Brown Dial from 1933**Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933)[**Reverso 60ème**Models · the first complicated Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-60eme)[**The 500-piece anniversary series**Limited Editions · from the 60ème to the Perpetual Calendar, 1991–2000](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=500%20series) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second Summary: When Mitch fell for the Chocolate Reverso, someone thought to show them another watch — a rose-gold Duetto meant for Linda. It became her second Reverso… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # Linda’s Second Reverso When Mitch fell for the Chocolate Reverso, someone thought to show them another watch — a rose-gold Duetto meant for Linda. It became her second Reverso, and a quiet sign she was no longer just watching from the sidelines. Experience ## Linda’s Second Reverso Mitch fell for the Chocolate Reverso. Then someone, just for the fun of it, showed them another watch — and this one was for Linda. Reverso Duetto, rose gold When I first saw the Chocolate Reverso, I wanted it immediately. It was going to be my first Reverso, and everything about the watch appealed to me: the warm rose-gold case, the brown dial and the special leather strap that completed the look. I had already decided that this was the Reverso for me. Around the same time, someone decided, “just for the fun of it,” to show us another watch. This one was for Linda. By then, Linda already had her first Reverso, the yellow-gold Duoface that had taken me so long to convince her to accept. She wore that watch regularly, but what we were shown this time was something a little different: an elegant Duetto in rose gold and brown that happened to pair beautifully with my Chocolate Reverso, and we were both struck by it. It wasn’t simply a smaller version of my watch, but there was enough of a family resemblance between the two that they felt as though they belonged together. Linda’s Duetto had diamonds on only one side, which suited her perfectly. It gave the watch a more formal character when she wanted it, without making the entire piece feel overly decorated. And the part I particularly enjoyed was that Linda wanted it, which was a sign that she was beginning to look at other watches. This Duetto became the Reverso she wears for more formal occasions, and when I wear my Chocolate Reverso, the two watches make a wonderful pair. I suppose you could say that it also gave Linda a little more “cred” among my watch friends, although by then she hardly needed my help. I had spent years happily descending into the watch-collecting rabbit hole while Linda watched from a safe distance. Now, for the first time, I could see her getting dangerously close to the edge herself. What a wonderful turn of events (or perhaps I should have been more careful what I wished for). ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**The Imperfect Engraving**The Chocolate Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**Number One — and the Piece of Lint**Grande Reverso Ultra Thin SQ](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-lint)[**The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought**Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch)[**Reverso Duetto**Models · the Duoface rewritten for women, 1997](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-duetto-1997) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph Summary: A 9 a.m. phone call in New York, a boutique appointment two hours away, and a scramble to secure a steel Reverso chronograph before that year’s allocation… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli # The Call Before the Appointment A 9 a.m. phone call in New York, a boutique appointment two hours away, and a scramble to secure a steel Reverso chronograph before that year’s allocation ran out. It ended up finding its biggest fan not in Edi, but in his son. Experience ## The Call Before the Appointment A phone call at nine in New York, an appointment at eleven, and two hours in which a year’s allocation of steel Reverso chronographs was spoken for. Its biggest admirer turned out to be Brion. Reverso Tribute Chronograph, steel I had always been fascinated by the complicated Reversos that Jaeger-LeCoultre created beginning with the sixtieth anniversary of the Reverso in 1991. Over the following years, six extraordinary complicated models appeared, establishing an entirely new chapter in the history of a watch that had originally been created for a very different purpose. At one point, I had the perfectly reasonable collector’s idea that I should own all six. Of course, the problem with collecting watches is that there are always more watches you want than watches you will ever be able to own. Eventually, you have to make choices. So when Jaeger-LeCoultre returned to the idea of the complicated Reverso and introduced a chronograph in steel, I was immediately interested. I love gold watches, and a Reverso certainly looks beautiful in gold, but I have always felt that steel has a particular connection to the character of the Reverso. There is something about the material that suits the origins and architecture of the watch, and the idea of combining a steel Reverso with a chronograph appealed to me enormously. I remember the morning the watch was announced because Deni and I were in New York and already had an appointment at the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique later that day. At around nine in the morning, my phone rang. It was Sheila: “Edi, are you interested in a Reverso chronograph?” Apparently, the new watches had just been announced in Switzerland and her phone was already ringing continuously with people asking for one. We weren’t due at the boutique until around eleven, but she wanted to know whether I was interested before we arrived so that she could make sure she had put our name down for one before that year’s allocations were spoken for in less than two hours. “Yes. I’m interested. Put me down and we’ll see you at eleven.” A couple of hours later, Deni, Brion, and I were at the boutique looking at the new Reverso Tribute Chronograph. The front had this wonderful blue-green, almost petrol-colored dial that was difficult to describe precisely, which was part of what made it interesting. Then you flipped the case and the personality of the watch changed completely. The chronograph mechanism was exposed on the reverse, turning what looked from the front like a relatively restrained Reverso into something much more mechanical and complicated. There were precious-metal versions as well, including some extraordinarily beautiful executions, but the steel was the one that spoke to me. It was the combination I wanted: a complicated Reverso, a chronograph, a steel case and that unusual dial. There was also the question of price. By that point, watch prices across the industry had risen dramatically, and suddenly many pieces that had once seemed reasonably attainable had moved into very different territory. Here was a beautifully finished, complicated Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso chronograph in steel in the low 20s. Within the context of what was happening in the watch world at the time, it felt like an enormous amount of watch for the money. We ordered it, and I have never regretted the decision. What I didn’t expect was that the watch would eventually find another admirer in our house. Brion loves it. As he has grown up around our watches, the chronograph has become one of the complications that fascinates him most. There is something immediate about it for a child: press a button and something happens. A hand starts moving. Press it again and it stops. Press another and everything returns to zero. But this chronograph has another trick: it flips. Brion loves turning the Reverso over and discovering the mechanism on the other side, and watching his fascination with it has given me another reason to enjoy a watch I already loved. ### About [Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/edi-deni-shipoli) For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them are usually the ones that became connected to something else: a place, a friendship, a journey, an achievement, the birth of their son Brion, or simply a moment in their lives that they wanted to remember. Their relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre began with an appreciation for the brand long before they seriously began collecting Reversos — they owned vintage pieces and admired the company’s history as a watchmaker and movement maker, but the Reverso gradually became something much more personal. That story really began in 2021, when Edi and Deni traveled to New York after an extraordinary year: Deni had completed her PhD, they had lived through the uncertainty of the pandemic, and in December 2020 their son Brion had been born. They went to New York looking for a watch to commemorate his birth and came home having unexpectedly begun a relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. That way of looking at watches sits naturally beside Edi and Deni’s work as the creators of *Watches & Politics*, a project exploring horology through history, culture, diplomacy, economics, power, and the people and institutions that shape the watch world. [Edi on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shipoli_e/)[Brion on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brionandwatches/)[Watches & Politics — YouTube](https://youtube.com/@WatchesAndPolitics)[Watches & Politics — Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7uFPFIcvfG8IwrbhXMNcjl)[Watches & Politics — Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watches-and-politics/id1822610214)[Watches & Politics — website](https://www.shipoliventures.com/watchesandpolitics) More From This Collection [**Our First Watches and Wonders**Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic)[**The Reverso That Started It All**Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano)[**The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made**Reverso Tribute Nonantième](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme)[**Reverso Tribute Chronograph**Models · 2023](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-chrono)[**Reverso Tribute Chronograph, pink gold**Limited Editions · 250 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tribute%20Chronograph)[**Reverso Chronographe Rétrograde**Models · the first chronograph Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-chrono-retro) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933 Summary: A chocolate-brown dial in 1933, when nearly every dial was white or silver, and made that way only because its first owner asked. Ninety years later… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. @jlc.reverso # A Brown Dial from 1933 A chocolate-brown dial in 1933, when nearly every dial was white or silver, and made that way only because its first owner asked. Ninety years later Jaeger-LeCoultre chose it for the first edition of The Collectibles. Experience ## A Brown Dial from 1933 A chocolate-brown dial in 1933, when nearly every dial was white or silver, made that way because its first owner asked. Ninety years later, Jaeger-LeCoultre chose it for The Collectibles. Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial · Ref. 201 · 1933 This 1933 Reverso Small Seconds, Ref. 201, represents a very different aspect of what attracts me to collecting Reversos: discovering how remarkably modern the model already was in its earliest years. The watch was selected by Jaeger-LeCoultre for the first edition of The Collectibles in 2023, the Manufacture’s own program dedicated to sourcing, restoring, and offering important vintage pieces from its history. Powered by the rectangular manual-wound Calibre 410, it is housed in stainless steel and features a beautiful chocolate-brown dial. The dial is what makes this example particularly fascinating to me. During the early 1930s, when white and silver dials dominated watchmaking, LeCoultre & Cie was already experimenting with much bolder colors. Alongside black, Reverso dials in brown, red, and blue could be ordered only upon request, making surviving examples considerably rarer. To see such a rich brown dial on a watch produced in 1933 feels surprisingly contemporary, even more than ninety years later. It demonstrates that the Reverso was never simply an Art Deco watch of its time; from the beginning, it was also a platform for individuality. For me, the value of this piece lies in that connection between originality and history. It is a watch whose rarity was not created as a limited edition, but happened naturally from an individual choice made by its original owner nearly a century ago. ### About [@jlc.reverso](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso) A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) More From This Collection [**The Tourbillon Made My Own**Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon)[**The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn**Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun)[**Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries**Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” (rose gold) and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” (steel)](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait)[**The Collectibles**Series · Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own vintage programme](https://myreversostory.com/series/collectibles-capsule)[**Reverso (first series)**Models · 1931](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-1931-original)[**The lacquered colour dials**Models · 1931–1935](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-colour-dials) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-lint Summary: Number one of only fifty, handed over at a boutique opening in the snow — until a loupe revealed a speck of lint trapped beneath the crystal. Getting it… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # Number One — and the Piece of Lint Number one of only fifty, handed over at a boutique opening in the snow — until a loupe revealed a speck of lint trapped beneath the crystal. Getting it right took three trips back to Switzerland. Experience ## Number One — and the Piece of Lint Number one of fifty, handed over at a boutique opening in the snow — until a loupe found a speck of lint under the crystal. Grande Reverso Ultra Thin SQ Linda and I were invited to New York for the opening of the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique. It had been a long winter in the city, with one snowstorm after another. New Yorkers seemed thoroughly tired of it. We weren’t. We walked down Fifth Avenue playing in the snow like children. That evening was the boutique opening. The boutique was filled with special watches brought in for the occasion, along with a few celebrities. While looking through the displays, I noticed a Grande Reverso Ultra Thin SQ. Stephanie from the JLC boutique in LA reminded me that she had shown it to me before and, apparently, I hadn’t been particularly interested. Sometimes a watch needs a second meeting. The movement was beautifully skeletonized and hand-engraved on both sides, surrounded by a striking blue enamel bezel. Only fifty had been made. And this one was number one. That certainly got my attention. Stephanie took it from the display and handed it to me. The opening party was happening all around us, people talking, music, movement, but I was somewhere else entirely, studying this watch. And then I saw something. Between six and seven o’clock, underneath the sapphire crystal, was a tiny white speck. I asked for a loupe and sure enough, there it was: a tiny, wayward piece of lint inside number one of fifty. The boutique’s watchmaker, Natalie, came over, examined it and confirmed what I had seen. The watch would have to go back to Switzerland. Several months later, the watch came back. Out came the loupe and the lint was gone, but now there were scratches on the eleven and twelve o’clock markers, apparently left during the repair and back to Switzerland it went. Eventually, the watch returned for a third time, I examined it carefully. Independently no matter how hard I tried, there was nothing else for me to discover and with a small celebration at the boutique, number one came home with me. Linda has told me more than once that perhaps I should work in quality control for a watch company. I seem to have an unfortunate talent for finding things that aren’t supposed to be there. She may be right, although I am much better at finding the problems than fixing them. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**The Imperfect Engraving**The Chocolate Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving)[**The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought**Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch)[**Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931**Models · the Ultra Thin family, SQ included](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-ultrathin-1931) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic Summary: A steel-versus-pink-gold debate at midnight in a Geneva hotel room was settled by the youngest member of the family: four-and-a-half-year-old Brion wanted… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli # Our First Watches and Wonders A steel-versus-pink-gold debate at midnight in a Geneva hotel room was settled by the youngest member of the family: four-and-a-half-year-old Brion wanted the blue one. It became the watch that now stands for the whole family’s first trip to Watches and Wonders, and their first visit to the Vallée de Joux. Experience ## Our First Watches and Wonders Midnight in a Geneva hotel room, steel against pink gold, and a deciding vote cast by a four-and-a-half-year-old: Brion wanted the blue one. Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel · 2025 In 2025, we went to Watches and Wonders for the first time. Jaeger-LeCoultre had invited us as guests, with passes for the entire week, including the opening day. For anyone who has experienced Watches and Wonders, that first day is something special. It is primarily dealers and media, the halls are still relatively calm, and you have the rare opportunity to see the watches without the crowds and long lines that come later. When I say “we,” of course, I mean all three of us: Edi, Deni and Brion. At four and a half years old, our son was attending Watches and Wonders with us. The excitement had actually begun the night before. We were at the hotel waiting for midnight, when the new releases would finally become public and we could see what Jaeger-LeCoultre had prepared. It turned out to be quite a year to make our first visit. Jaeger-LeCoultre had made 2025 a year of the Reverso, with one new interpretation after another, and we spent that evening looking through the releases and talking about which ones we wanted to see the following morning. There was one watch all three of us kept coming back to: the Reverso Tribute Geographic. On the front was a beautifully restrained dial with a large date, but turning the case over revealed the reason the watch had captured us. The reverse became a world-time display, with a map of the globe surrounded by the names of twenty-four cities. There were two versions, and we genuinely struggled with the choice. The limited pink-gold version was beautiful, with its warm tones and darker world map, but there was something about the steel version that made sense to us. Its blue dial and blue globe gave it a completely different character, and I kept thinking that if we were going to own a world-time Reverso, perhaps it should actually be a watch we could travel with comfortably. Steel felt less formal and less conspicuous, something we could put on our wrist in another city and simply enjoy. Deni and I went back and forth on the metal we wanted, but Brion did not. He wanted the blue one. So the four-and-a-half-year-old member of our collecting committee cast the deciding vote. That trip also took us beyond Geneva to the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture in the Vallée de Joux. For people who love watches, it is difficult to explain what it feels like to finally visit a place you have read about for years and then see the work happening in front of you. We met the people behind the watches and saw crafts that are almost impossible to appreciate fully from photographs. We met a young enamel artist, still in her twenties, who was working on one of the extraordinary miniature enamel paintings Jaeger-LeCoultre had created that year, inspired by the Shahnameh. Some of the details were being painted using a brush made with a single horsehair. Watching someone so young perform a craft requiring that degree of patience and control made us look at these watches differently. You can know intellectually that something is hand-painted, hand-finished or hand-made, but standing beside the person actually doing it gives those words an entirely different meaning. By the end of the trip, the Geographic had come to represent much more than one of the watches introduced that year. It became our reminder of the whole experience: our first Watches and Wonders, our first visit to Geneva as a family, Brion walking the halls with us at four and a half years old, and our first journey into the Vallée de Joux and through the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture. It also unintentionally continued something we had started with our Reverso chronograph. Both were complicated Reversos, and both were in steel. Perhaps, over time, that will become a small collection of its own as Jaeger-LeCoultre introduces other complications. We will see. What we do know is that our original instinct about the Geographic was right: it has become our travel watch. Deni and I both wear it, and during our travels this past summer it spent months with us, alongside only a handful of other watches. It is complicated enough to be fascinating, practical enough to travel with, and in steel we never feel that we have to treat it as something too precious to actually use. Whenever we turn the case over and see that blue globe, we remember why we chose it. Not simply because we wanted a world-time Reverso, but because it takes the three of us back to Geneva, to the Vallée de Joux, and to a week in 2025 when our little family experienced that world together for the first time. ### About [Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/edi-deni-shipoli) For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them are usually the ones that became connected to something else: a place, a friendship, a journey, an achievement, the birth of their son Brion, or simply a moment in their lives that they wanted to remember. Their relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre began with an appreciation for the brand long before they seriously began collecting Reversos — they owned vintage pieces and admired the company’s history as a watchmaker and movement maker, but the Reverso gradually became something much more personal. That story really began in 2021, when Edi and Deni traveled to New York after an extraordinary year: Deni had completed her PhD, they had lived through the uncertainty of the pandemic, and in December 2020 their son Brion had been born. They went to New York looking for a watch to commemorate his birth and came home having unexpectedly begun a relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. That way of looking at watches sits naturally beside Edi and Deni’s work as the creators of *Watches & Politics*, a project exploring horology through history, culture, diplomacy, economics, power, and the people and institutions that shape the watch world. [Edi on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shipoli_e/)[Brion on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brionandwatches/)[Watches & Politics — YouTube](https://youtube.com/@WatchesAndPolitics)[Watches & Politics — Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7uFPFIcvfG8IwrbhXMNcjl)[Watches & Politics — Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watches-and-politics/id1822610214)[Watches & Politics — website](https://www.shipoliventures.com/watchesandpolitics) More From This Collection [**The Reverso That Won Me Over**Reverso Tribute Geographic](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic)[**The Call Before the Appointment**Reverso Tribute Chronograph, steel](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph)[**The Reverso That Started It All**Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano)[**Reverso Tribute Geographic, pink gold**Limited Editions · 150 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tribute%20Geographic%2C%20pink%20gold)[**Reverso Tribute Geographic**Models · 2025](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-geographic)[**Reverso Grande Taille Geographic**Limited Editions · the 1998 original, 500 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Grande%20Taille%20Geographic) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-scratch Summary: A dropped pen, a hand reached under a car seat, and Mitch’s heart sank — his nearly new Reverso was scratched for good. Weeks later, picking at the case, he… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # The Scratch That Wasn’t There A dropped pen, a hand reached under a car seat, and Mitch’s heart sank — his nearly new Reverso was scratched for good. Weeks later, picking at the case, he discovered the scratch had never existed at all. Experience ## The Scratch That Wasn’t There A dropped pen, a hand reached under a car seat, and a nearly new Reverso scratched for good — or so it seemed, for weeks. Reverso Tribute Nonantième I don’t like scratches on my watches. I understand that a watch is meant to be worn, and anything worn will eventually collect marks along the way, but it still bothers me. Especially when the watch is new. And especially when the scratch is caused by my own carelessness. Not long after I acquired my Reverso Tribute Nonantième, I decided to wear it to work. The Nonantième was created for the ninetieth anniversary of the Reverso and was unlike any other Reverso I owned. The front was wonderfully traditional, but turning the case over revealed something completely different: a jumping digital hour, an analog minute display, and a day-and-night indicator. After owning it for a very few weeks, one morning, I pulled into the garage at work and dropped a pen. It rolled underneath the driver’s seat and without thinking, I reached underneath with my left hand. Then I felt it: the watch scrape against something beneath the seat. My heart sank! I immediately flipped the Reverso over so I wouldn’t have to see it, taking the advantage of owning a Reverso. Throughout the day, though, I kept turning it back, maybe the scratch wasn’t as bad as I remembered, but it was. By that evening, I was annoyed with myself and embarrassed by the thought of taking a nearly new watch back to the boutique and explaining what I had done, so I put it away. A couple of weeks passed before my desire to wear the Nonantième finally became stronger than my desire to avoid looking at the damage. I flipped it over hoping that the scratch was not there or it wasn’t that bad. The scratch was still there and it was that bad. Then, driving home from work that evening and sitting in traffic, I absentmindedly began picking at the lower part of the case. Something lifted, a plastic. I peeled away a tiny piece of the protective film that I had somehow never removed when the watch was new, and with it went the scratch, there had never been a scratch on the watch at all. When I got home, I examined the watch again to see if the scratch was there, and it wasn’t. For weeks afterward, I would occasionally look at that spot just to reassure myself. I had spent weeks mourning damage that had never happened. There is probably a lesson here about not reaching underneath car seats while wearing a watch. There may also be a lesson about not worrying quite so much. I have learned the first one, I’m still working on the second. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**The Imperfect Engraving**The Chocolate Reverso](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving)[**Reverso Tribute Nonantième**Limited Editions · 190 pieces](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Tribute%20Nonanti%C3%A8me)[**Reverso Tribute Nonantième**Models · the 90th-anniversary piece, 2021](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-nonantieme) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-repeater Summary: The woman who once called herself a “watch widow” looked at the rarest watch in the room and told her husband exactly one thing: buy it. Only ten were ever… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Mitch & Linda Katz # Linda Said I Had to Buy It The woman who once called herself a “watch widow” looked at the rarest watch in the room and told her husband exactly one thing: buy it. Only ten were ever made, and Linda picked out number eight herself. Experience ## Linda Said I Had to Buy It Only ten were made, and number eight was still free. Then the woman who once called herself a “watch widow” looked at her husband and said four words. Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater · 2021 Years earlier, Linda had sat at a watch dinner and announced to a room full of collectors that she knew nothing about watches and wasn’t particularly interested in them, and designated herself a “watch widow.” I never forgot it. Fast forward to 2021, when we had been invited to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Sound Maker exhibition, a celebration of the manufacture’s long history of watches that make sound. We spent three wonderful days with the Jaeger-LeCoultre team and fellow collectors, several of whom became lasting friends. During one of our meetings, I was shown a new watch: The Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater. It was extraordinary and the skeletonized, beautifully finished, movement had a trick under its sleeve: it chimed. Clear, beautiful notes sounded from this little rectangular watch. Even the construction was unusual: the gongs had been shaped to work within the architecture of the Reverso case. Only ten were going to be made and most were already spoken for. Number one was gone, and so was number ten. But number eight was available and eight is considered particularly auspicious in Chinese culture and is strongly associated with prosperity and good fortune. I was surprised such a desirable number was still there. Then I looked at Linda. She had heard the number, and most importantly the price. And then my wife, the woman who once proudly called herself a “watch widow,” looked at me and said: “You have to get it.” I was stunned. What was more beautiful and much rarer, than a minute repeater? She went on to explain that with all the watches I owned, it didn’t make sense that I didn’t have a minute repeater in my collection. The problem: Jaeger-LeCoultre finished the watch much earlier than expected. They had said three years, it came in six months. At the time, it was stressful, but today none of that is what I think about when I hold the watch and I listen: hours, quarter hours, minutes. It brings me joy every time. And should the electricity ever go out, I am prepared. I may be sitting in complete darkness, but my Reverso can still tell me exactly what time it is. Perhaps the best part of the story, though, isn’t the repeater: it’s Linda. She had come a long way. We both had, together. ### About [Mitch & Linda Katz](https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz) For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) More From This Collection [**Linda’s Second Reverso**Reverso Duetto, rose gold](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second)[**The Watch Widow**Reverso Duoface](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface)[**Number One of Five**Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101)[**The repeating Reversos**Limited Editions · from 1994 to 2025](https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions?q=Minute%20Repeater)[**Reverso Répétition Minutes à Rideau**Models · 2011](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-rideau)[**Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater**Models · the 2025 successor](https://myreversostory.com/models#m-tribute-repeater-953) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/mitch-linda-katz Summary: For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Mitch & Linda Katz For Mitch Katz and his wife Linda, watches have never been simply objects to collect. They have become part of a life together, connected to friendships, travels, accidents, laughter, personal milestones, and the people they have met along the way. That same belief, that the real value of a watch lies in the stories surrounding it, also led Mitch to write *Time on My Hands: A Collector’s Journey in the World of Watches*, his memoir about the watches, people, and experiences that shaped his collecting life. He has since carried his love of horology into fiction with *Time Eternal*, the first in a series of mysteries set within the world of watches, with three further novels in development. Together, these ten watches tell something larger than the story of a collection: the story of Mitch and Linda, and of how, over time, watches became part of the memories they share. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/uniquelyprototype/)[Time on My Hands (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Hands-Collectors-Journey/dp/1964014530)[Time Eternal (book)](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eternal-Mitch-Katz/dp/1964014638) 10 stories in this spotlight ### Number One of Five Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco A friend mentioned a watch Mitch had never really considered — and before lunch was over, he’d tracked down the last one in existence. It turned out to be number one of only five ever made, the smallest mechanical movement in the world floating inside a transparent sapphire case. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101) ### The Watch Widow Reverso Duoface For years, Linda called herself a “watch widow” — happy to love the man, not the hobby. Mitch spent months looking for the one Reverso that might change her mind, right down to a buckle she could swap herself. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface) ### Linda’s Second Reverso Reverso Duetto, rose gold When Mitch fell for the Chocolate Reverso, someone thought to show them another watch — a rose-gold Duetto meant for Linda. It became her second Reverso, and a quiet sign she was no longer just watching from the sidelines. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second) ### The Imperfect Engraving The Chocolate Reverso A circular fleur-de-lis pattern, discovered during a dull lecture, had no business fitting a rectangular Reverso case — until an engraver in Switzerland made it work. Then a friend spotted something a photograph never had. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving) ### Number One — and the Piece of Lint Grande Reverso Ultra Thin SQ Number one of only fifty, handed over at a boutique opening in the snow — until a loupe revealed a speck of lint trapped beneath the crystal. Getting it right took three trips back to Switzerland. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-lint) ### The Watch I Designed, and the One I Bought Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale Over lunch at the Shanghai Film Festival, Mitch sketched his own watch on a napkin and pitched it to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO that same evening. The napkin watch never happened — but a boutique visit to borrow a watch for a podcast ended, somehow, with him buying it instead. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch) ### Goodbye, Wave Reverso Tribute Enamel — Hokusai, unique commission Mitch fell in love with one side of a Reverso and couldn’t live with the other. So he asked Jaeger-LeCoultre a question they don’t usually say yes to — and one of only eight became something else entirely. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-goodbye-wave) ### My Engraving Reverso Tribute Small Seconds, burgundy A pattern Mitch thought was his alone nearly went to someone else — until the manufacture realized the second request was from the same client. Today it appears, with quiet variations, on four different Reversos. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-my-engraving) ### The Scratch That Wasn’t There Reverso Tribute Nonantième A dropped pen, a hand reached under a car seat, and Mitch’s heart sank — his nearly new Reverso was scratched for good. Weeks later, picking at the case, he discovered the scratch had never existed at all. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-scratch) ### Linda Said I Had to Buy It Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater The woman who once called herself a “watch widow” looked at the rarest watch in the room and told her husband exactly one thing: buy it. Only ten were ever made, and Linda picked out number eight herself. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-repeater) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/randy-kamin Summary: Randy Kamin: The very first JLC Randy ever bought is already written into his will — engraved with the family initial, and meant for his son one day. It… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Randy Kamin 1 story in this spotlight ### My Baby Reverso The very first JLC Randy ever bought is already written into his will — engraved with the family initial, and meant for his son one day. It turned out to be the start of a collection nineteen watches deep, and counting. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/randy-kamin-first-reverso) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/edi-deni-shipoli Summary: For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli For Edi and Deni Shipoli, collecting watches has never really been about building a collection according to a plan. The watches that have stayed with them are usually the ones that became connected to something else: a place, a friendship, a journey, an achievement, the birth of their son Brion, or simply a moment in their lives that they wanted to remember. Their relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre began with an appreciation for the brand long before they seriously began collecting Reversos — they owned vintage pieces and admired the company’s history as a watchmaker and movement maker, but the Reverso gradually became something much more personal. That story really began in 2021, when Edi and Deni traveled to New York after an extraordinary year: Deni had completed her PhD, they had lived through the uncertainty of the pandemic, and in December 2020 their son Brion had been born. They went to New York looking for a watch to commemorate his birth and came home having unexpectedly begun a relationship with Jaeger-LeCoultre. That way of looking at watches sits naturally beside Edi and Deni’s work as the creators of *Watches & Politics*, a project exploring horology through history, culture, diplomacy, economics, power, and the people and institutions that shape the watch world. [Edi on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shipoli_e/)[Brion on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brionandwatches/)[Watches & Politics — YouTube](https://youtube.com/@WatchesAndPolitics)[Watches & Politics — Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7uFPFIcvfG8IwrbhXMNcjl)[Watches & Politics — Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watches-and-politics/id1822610214)[Watches & Politics — website](https://www.shipoliventures.com/watchesandpolitics) 5 stories in this spotlight ### The Reverso That Started It All Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano Edi and Deni went to New York with another brand’s watch already picked out for Deni. They came home instead with a limited-edition Reverso Duoface they had specifically told the boutique they weren’t buying — and it became the one watch in the house Edi still isn’t allowed to wear. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano) ### The Most Beautiful Watch Ever Made Reverso Tribute Nonantième A weekend in New York with a nine-month-old Brion in tow, a watch that looked classical on one side and radically modern on the other, and a passing joke to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO about naming a Reverso Memovox after himself. Edi is still waiting on that last one. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme) ### Our Istanbul Reverso Tribute Monoface, green dial Edi and Deni wanted an engraving that meant something, not a postcard — no bridge, no mosque, no obvious skyline. Istanbul jeweler Sevan Bıçakçı turned a conversation about tea, simit, and seagulls by the Bosphorus into three tiny works of art, and one of them became theirs. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul) ### The Call Before the Appointment Reverso Tribute Chronograph, steel A 9 a.m. phone call in New York, a boutique appointment two hours away, and a scramble to secure a steel Reverso chronograph before that year’s allocation ran out. It ended up finding its biggest fan not in Edi, but in his son. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph) ### Our First Watches and Wonders Reverso Tribute Geographic, steel A steel-versus-pink-gold debate at midnight in a Geneva hotel room was settled by the youngest member of the family: four-and-a-half-year-old Brion wanted the blue one. It became the watch that now stands for the whole family’s first trip to Watches and Wonders, and their first visit to the Vallée de Joux. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/sarp-vahabi Summary: Sarp Vahabi collects Reversos for the reason the watch has always invited: the blank reverse, and what people chose to put on it. Most of those engravings… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Sarp Vahabi Sarp Vahabi collects Reversos for the reason the watch has always invited: the blank reverse, and what people chose to put on it. Most of those engravings are private — an initial, a date, a message meaningful to one person and unreadable to everyone since. Occasionally one preserves something much larger, and the pleasure of the hunt lies in recognising which is which. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/watch_game_is_disgusting/)[watches.com.tr](https://watches.com.tr) 1 story in this spotlight ### The Diplomat’s Reverso Reverso monoface, steel — dial signed Golay Fils & Stahl An early steel Reverso found through an Istanbul dealer, its case back engraved with a signature and a date: 29·X·934. The signature belonged to Nicolae Titulescu, and the date was the day Atatürk received him in Ankara. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/sarp-titulescu) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/roni-madhvani Summary: Roni Madhvani is a collector whose taste has always been drawn toward the unusual. Based in Kampala, Uganda, he has built a collection around vintage… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Roni Madhvani Roni Madhvani is a collector whose taste has always been drawn toward the unusual. Based in Kampala, Uganda, he has built a collection around vintage watches with character: unusual cases, double-signed and enamel dials, clocks and pocket watches, and particularly pieces from the Art Deco period. His interest extends well beyond the watches themselves — he collects old books and catalogues, studies the history around the objects he owns, and regularly shares what he discovers with other collectors. There is also a deeply personal side to the way he collects. His family’s history stretches from Gujarat in western India to Uganda, where his grandfather, Muljibhai Madhvani, arrived as a fourteen-year-old in 1908 and eventually established the foundations of a very successful business venture. That connection to India, together with Roni’s fascination with the watches made for the Maharajas, has shaped parts of his collection. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/roni_m_29/) 1 story in this spotlight ### The Reverso of Belief Reverso with enamel and engraved portrait of Jalaram Bapa A wedding gift from his wife, later sent to Le Sentier with an unusual request: a portrait of the Gujarati saint Jalaram Bapa on the reverse. What came back was not what he had pictured — and he has cherished it ever since. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/roni-jalaram) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/farhan-hussain Summary: Farhan Hussain collects from London, where two Reversos in his collection have become tied to his two children — one ordered a week after his daughter was… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Farhan Hussain Farhan Hussain collects from London, where two Reversos in his collection have become tied to his two children — one ordered a week after his daughter was born and personalised with her name, the other bought years earlier and engraved before his son arrived. 2 stories in this spotlight ### My Daughter’s Reverso Reverso with lacquered lettering Ordered a week after his daughter was born, then sent back to Switzerland so her name could be lacquered across the reverse. He wears it carefully, because one day it will be hers. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter) ### My Son’s Reverso Reverso, black dial Bought in 2017 and engraved with his own initials in 2023 — a year before his son was born. He has occasionally wished he had waited, and then decided the initials were the better inheritance anyway. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-son) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/robin-tong-lin-wong Summary: Robin Tong Lin Wong collects from Singapore, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has always been his favourite maison. His most personal Reverso marks a professional… Updated: 2026-10-26 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Robin Tong Lin Wong Robin Tong Lin Wong collects from Singapore, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has always been his favourite maison. His most personal Reverso marks a professional milestone rather than a family one: the technology startup he backed as an investor and joined as an early employee, and the exit that followed. Two more came from the 2025 Watches & Wonders releases: the Tribute Geographic he chose that year, and the Or Deco he could not forget and brought home the next. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/watchthebin/) 3 stories in this spotlight ### A Reverso for a Milestone Reverso Tribute Nonantième The Nonantième was meant to be spoken for by the time he went looking. A meeting in Singapore with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s then CEO turned a missed allocation into the watch that marks his startup’s exit. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-nonantieme) ### The Reverso That Won Me Over Reverso Tribute Geographic Three Reversos on the shortlist after Watches & Wonders 2025, two boutique visits in one week, and one that kept drawing him back: the Tribute Geographic, a blue sunburst dial on one side and a hand-lacquered world map on the other. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic) ### The Reverso I Couldn’t Forget Reverso Or Deco Milanese He chose the Geographic in 2025, but the Or Deco Milanese he had handled as a prototype would not leave his head. A year later he ordered one; it arrived in June 2026 and has hardly left his wrist since. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-or-deco) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/decowatches Summary: A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @decowatches. His two engraved pieces trace two different threads of his life: a promise made to his wife on their… Updated: 2026-11-02 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # @decowatches A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @decowatches. His two engraved pieces trace two different threads of his life: a promise made to his wife on their honeymoon in Milan, and more than two decades spent playing guitar, including one professional stretch. A third, a steel Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, was love at first sight. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/decowatches/) 3 stories in this spotlight ### My Son’s Reverso Reverso Classic, 45.6mm Bought with his wife during their honeymoon in Milan, with a promise made that same day: whenever a first child arrived, its initials and birth date would go on the back. Three years later, he kept it. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son) ### The Gibson Guitar Reverso Reverso Tribute, 40.1mm Engraved with a 1964 Gibson ES-335 — the same year as Eric Clapton’s famous cherry red guitar — to mark more than twenty years playing guitar, including one professional stretch. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson) ### Love at First Sight Reverso Tribute Duoface Tourbillon, stainless steel First seen on Jérôme Lambert’s wrist at a boutique event in 2025, and ordered just under three months later: a flying tourbillon in a steel Reverso, and a watch he knows will never leave his collection. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-tourbillon) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/dc-watch-enthusiast Summary: A DC-area watch enthusiast whose Reverso marks a specific professional milestone: joining the Advisory Board of George Mason University’s Costello College… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # A DC Watch Enthusiast A DC-area watch enthusiast whose Reverso marks a specific professional milestone: joining the Advisory Board of George Mason University’s Costello College of Business, translated into the watch’s own hand-decorated case back rather than a literal school crest. 1 story in this spotlight ### George Mason Flower Reverso, green dial A board appointment at George Mason University’s business school became the reason for a first Reverso: green dial to the front, and on the back, the school’s colors reimagined as a hand-decorated Art Deco floral engraving rather than a literal crest. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/george-mason-flower) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/paul-stewart Summary: Paul Stewart’s Reverso carries a piece of family history few watches could: an engraved portrait of his great-great-grandfather, taken from a sketch drawn… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Paul Stewart Paul Stewart’s Reverso carries a piece of family history few watches could: an engraved portrait of his great-great-grandfather, taken from a sketch drawn generations ago by a cousin who happened to be a working artist. 1 story in this spotlight ### A Portrait from the Family Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds An empty case back bothered him for years, until he remembered a family sketch by his great-great-grandfather’s cousin, the Russian Impressionist Leonid Pasternak, and turned a century-old portrait into an engraving. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/taylor-wos Summary: Taylor Wos grew up in New York City sharing a love of Art Deco with her architect father. That shared interest became the one-of-one engraving on the back… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Taylor Wos Taylor Wos grew up in New York City sharing a love of Art Deco with her architect father. That shared interest became the one-of-one engraving on the back of her Reverso, since recognized by other collectors and once photographed for The New York Times. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/aniatronicss/) 1 story in this spotlight ### Wisdom Reverso Father and daughter shared a love of Art Deco New York, and turned it into a one-of-one engraving of Lee Lawrie’s Wisdom from Rockefeller Center, inscription and all. The watch later turned up, unplanned, in The New York Times. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/taylor-wos-wisdom) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/rashawn-smith Summary: Rashawn Smith collects under the name Fit 2 Win. His Reverso is a 2007 Jaeger-LeCoultre × Aston Martin collaboration piece, acquired secondhand from the… Updated: 2026-10-27 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Rashawn Smith Rashawn Smith collects under the name Fit 2 Win. His Reverso is a 2007 Jaeger-LeCoultre × Aston Martin collaboration piece, acquired secondhand from the original owner’s son in a sale that started as a favor and ended as a purchase. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/Rashawn__Smith/) 1 story in this spotlight ### The Aston Martin Reverso Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoultre × Aston Martin A 2007 collaboration piece built around the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, bought secondhand from the original owner’s son after a sale that started as a favor between strangers and ended as a purchase. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/rashawn-smith-astonmartin) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/haoming-wang Summary: Haoming Wang shares his watches on Instagram as @h.m.montre. His Reverso is a tribute to the musician Sarah Àlainn: a commissioned illustration… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Haoming Wang Haoming Wang shares his watches on Instagram as @h.m.montre. His Reverso is a tribute to the musician Sarah Àlainn: a commissioned illustration hand-engraved on the case back, and a strap chosen to bring back the one thing engraving could not carry, its colour. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/h.m.montre/) 1 story in this spotlight ### A Tribute in Detail and Colour Reverso A drawing of the musician Sarah Àlainn in a yellow dress, commissioned from a Sydney artist and hand-engraved on the case back. Engraving kept every detail except the yellow, so the colour came back another way: in the strap. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/haoming-wang-tribute) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/sm Summary: SM is a collector in Hong Kong who shares this story under initials. The Reverso was a surprise gift from a godfather; the dragon on its back was designed… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # SM SM is a collector in Hong Kong who shares this story under initials. The Reverso was a surprise gift from a godfather; the dragon on its back was designed over drinks and sketches with the engraver Carlos Koo. 1 story in this spotlight ### The Dragon Reverso, hand-wound, time only A blank Reverso found at a small auction in eastern France and carried to Hong Kong as a godfather’s surprise gift. Then a self-taught engraver, who is also an actor and model, cut a dragon into it in the shape of the number eight. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/sm-dragon) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/bird Summary: Bird collects Reversos with a close eye for proportion: after trying almost every size on a small wrist, the smaller vintage case won. A love of Japanese… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Bird Bird collects Reversos with a close eye for proportion: after trying almost every size on a small wrist, the smaller vintage case won. A love of Japanese city pop shows up in the straps, made in unusual colours with contrasting stitching and linings that do not match. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/birddd/) 1 story in this spotlight ### The Little Reverso from Japan Reverso, manual wind, about 35 × 19 mm Found in Japan, left behind, regretted for six months, then brought home by a friend who happened to be travelling there: a small manual-wind Reverso in the proportions it took years to find, now worn on straps in the colours of city pop. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/bird-little-reverso) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/jlc-reverso Summary: A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of… Updated: 2026-10-28 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # @jlc.reverso A Reverso collector in Thailand who shares the collection on Instagram as @jlc.reverso. The pieces here follow one thread: the Reverso as a record of history, from a coloured dial of 1933 and the first complicated Reverso of 1991 to editions made for Thailand and Kuwait, a tourbillon given a dial of its own, and Mucha’s Spring in enamel. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/jlc.reverso/) 6 stories in this spotlight ### The Reverso of the Temple of Dawn Grande Reverso Day/Night, Limited Thailand Edition One of 39 made for Thailand: three for the colours of the flag, nine for King Rama IX. A yellow dial for the light of dawn, and on the reverse, Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun) ### Two Reversos, Two Anniversaries Grande Reverso “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait” (rose gold) and “55th Anniversary of the Nation of Kuwait” (steel) Two anniversaries in one year, written into the production numbers: 25 in rose gold for the liberation, 55 in steel for the nation. Both wear a deep green dial with scarlet numerals, and this collector found one of each. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait) ### The Reverso That Changed Everything Reverso 60ème, Grande Taille Five hundred pieces for the Reverso’s sixtieth birthday, and three firsts at once: the Grande Taille case, the first complications in a series Reverso, and the first sapphire back. Every complicated Reverso since starts here. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-60eme) ### A Brown Dial from 1933 Reverso Small Seconds, stainless steel, brown dial A chocolate-brown dial in 1933, when nearly every dial was white or silver, and made that way only because its first owner asked. Ninety years later Jaeger-LeCoultre chose it for the first edition of The Collectibles. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933) ### The Tourbillon Made My Own Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, platinum, special salmon dial One of fifty platinum Tribute Tourbillon Duofaces, all made with a blue dial. Through the Bangkok boutique this collector asked the Manufacture for salmon instead, and waited more than a year to see it. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon) ### A Reverso for Spring Reverso Tribute Enamel Alfons Mucha “Spring”, yellow gold Mucha’s Spring in grand feu enamel, one of only eight. After a long search for a yellow-gold Reverso with guilloché and enamel, this collector chose Spring for its colours and for what the season means: renewal, and a new beginning. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-mucha) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/ian-cassar Summary: Ian Cassar collects from Malta. The Reverso here carries the Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre through the island’s jeweller, run by… Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Ian Cassar Ian Cassar collects from Malta. The Reverso here carries the Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre through the island’s jeweller, run by an old school friend, and it is meant one day for the next generation. 1 story in this spotlight ### A Reverso of Hope Reverso, engraved with the Cassar coat of arms The Cassar family coat of arms, engraved by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Malta: a red cross and four letters, SPES, Latin for hope. It is meant for a son who is nine today, with a message for when he is older. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/ian-cassar-spes) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/wristwatch-kitja Summary: A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @wristwatch_kitja, whose love of one red dial led to a first trip abroad made purely to find a watch. Updated: 2026-10-25 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # @wristwatch_kitja A Reverso collector known on Instagram as @wristwatch_kitja, whose love of one red dial led to a first trip abroad made purely to find a watch. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wristwatch_kitja/) 1 story in this spotlight ### The Reverso Worth Traveling For Grande Reverso Ultra Thin, Edition Spéciale Rouge A red dial that could not be bought at home, and the first time a love of watches became a reason to cross a border: the Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Rouge, a 2012 boutique edition for the Reverso’s eightieth year. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/kitja-rouge) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/win Summary: Win started looking at watches in high school. The first Reverso, a Dual Time on an ostrich strap, was a mother’s offer, set aside for a week and sold in… Updated: 2026-10-28 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # Win Win started looking at watches in high school. The first Reverso, a Dual Time on an ostrich strap, was a mother’s offer, set aside for a week and sold in the meantime. Almost twenty years on, a Reverso Duoface brought the whole moment back. 1 story in this spotlight ### The Reverso That Waited Twenty Years Reverso Duoface A mother’s offer, a Reverso on final sale, and a promise to wait one week. The watch was gone. Almost twenty years later, another Reverso Duoface brought it all back. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/win-duoface) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/collectors/thefinesttastesclub Summary: A collector known on Instagram as @thefinesttastesclub, drawn to the Reverso’s design and to the history it carries. This 1930s example, sold through… Updated: 2026-11-02 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Collector Spotlight # @thefinesttastesclub A collector known on Instagram as @thefinesttastesclub, drawn to the Reverso’s design and to the history it carries. This 1930s example, sold through Favre-Leuba in colonial India, turned up in West Bengal in 2026 with the traces of a removed engraving still on its back. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/thefinesttastesclub/) 1 story in this spotlight ### A Reverso from Another India Reverso, steel and gold, retailed by Favre-Leuba & Co., India A 1930s Reverso sold through Favre-Leuba in colonial India, found in West Bengal in 2026. On its back, a blue lacquer border and the traces of an engraving someone removed, for reasons that may never be known. [Read the Full Story](https://myreversostory.com/stories/finesttastes-india) Share Your Story ## Every Reverso has a second side. If your watch carries an engraving, a memory, or a story worth telling, we'd like to hear it. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso Summary: Made for Commemorating Italo Balbo. Among the earliest documented personalised Reversos, engraved with a map and route commemorating Italo Balbo’s mass… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1933 # The Balbo Reverso Made for Commemorating Italo Balbo. Hand engraving **Year**1933 **Craft**Hand engraving **Made for**Commemorating Italo Balbo Among the earliest documented personalised Reversos, engraved with a map and route commemorating Italo Balbo’s mass transatlantic formation flight to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Barely two years after the patent, the blank steel back was already being used to record history rather than merely survive it. Source: Time and Watches; JLC Heritage More Pièces Uniques [**The Roger Feutz “Gardien Acrobate” Reverso**1932 · Blue dial · hand-engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roger-feutz-gardien-acrobate-reverso)[**The Carmen Chaplin Heart Reverso**2016 · Hand-engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/carmen-chaplin-heart-reverso)[**The Charlie Chaplin Reverso**2026 · Hand engraving, available to order](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/charlie-chaplin-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roger-feutz-gardien-acrobate-reverso Summary: Made for Roger Feutz, goalkeeper, FC Lausanne-Sports. A blue-dialled Reverso Standard, one of a set given in 1932 to the players of Lausanne-Sports after… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1932 # The Roger Feutz “Gardien Acrobate” Reverso Made for Roger Feutz, goalkeeper, FC Lausanne-Sports. Blue dial · hand-engraved case-back **Year**1932 **Craft**Blue dial · hand-engraved case-back **Made for**Roger Feutz, goalkeeper, FC Lausanne-Sports A blue-dialled Reverso Standard, one of a set given in 1932 to the players of Lausanne-Sports after the club won the 1931–32 Swiss championship — each case engraved with the club’s initials and the individual player’s name, distributed through Spécialités Horlogères S.A. This particular watch belonged to Roger Feutz, the team’s goalkeeper, known to Swiss football fans as “le gardien acrobate” (the acrobat goalkeeper); he died in 2003 at 94. The Reverso itself was barely a year old at the time — among the earliest recorded examples of what would now be called a sports sponsorship in watchmaking. The piece surfaced publicly only in 2025, rediscovered and exhibited by Maison Riondet at FAB Paris, and appears in neither the standard reference works nor Manfred Fritz’s otherwise exhaustive *Reverso — La légende vivante*. Source: Montres de Luxe, July 2025; Maison Riondet, FAB Paris 2025 More Pièces Uniques [**The Balbo Reverso**1933 · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso)[**The Carmen Chaplin Heart Reverso**2016 · Hand-engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/carmen-chaplin-heart-reverso)[**The Charlie Chaplin Reverso**2026 · Hand engraving, available to order](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/charlie-chaplin-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scuola-grande-di-san-rocco-reverso Summary: Made for Displayed at the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique, Venice. A yellow gold Reverso Grande Taille whose case-back reproduces the main marble staircase of… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2016 # The Scuola Grande di San Rocco Reverso Made for Displayed at the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique, Venice. Grand feu miniature enamel **Year**2016 **Craft**Grand feu miniature enamel **Made for**Displayed at the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique, Venice A yellow gold Reverso Grande Taille whose case-back reproduces the main marble staircase of Venice’s Scuola Grande di San Rocco — the confraternity house famous for its Tintoretto cycle, whose restoration Jaeger-LeCoultre has sponsored since 2013. Unveiled at the 73rd Mostra (Venice Film Festival), the piece works almost entirely in a narrow band of stone-grey tones, since the marble subject left little room for colour contrast; the straight architectural lines fought the curved case surface throughout, and the firing process flattened the marble’s texture more than expected. Three weeks of work, 32 dryings at 230°C, and 15 firings at 800°C. Announced alongside a Facebook campaign — each “like” during one week in September 2016 triggered a donation toward the restoration — which drew over 2,500 likes and led to a final €15,000 gift to the Scuola. Source: MasterHorologer, Sept 2016; MyWatch EN, Sept 2016; Luxsure, Sept 2016 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Wimbledon” Cloisonné Enamel Reverso**1940s · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wimbledon-cloisonne-enamel-reverso)[**The Roland Garros 1952 Reverso**1952 · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères · engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roland-garros-1952-reverso)[**The Cloisonné Polo Player Reverso**1937 · Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/cloisonne-polo-player-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/carmen-chaplin-heart-reverso Summary: Made for Carmen Chaplin, actress and JLC ambassador. A Reverso Classic Medium engraved with a heart, freehand-drawn by actress Carmen Chaplin… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2016 # The Carmen Chaplin Heart Reverso Made for Carmen Chaplin, actress and JLC ambassador. Hand-engraved case-back **Year**2016 **Craft**Hand-engraved case-back **Made for**Carmen Chaplin, actress and JLC ambassador A Reverso Classic Medium engraved with a heart, freehand-drawn by actress Carmen Chaplin — granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and a Jaeger-LeCoultre ambassador — as the opening gesture of the same San Rocco restoration campaign above. At the manufacture’s lounge during the 2016 Venice Film Festival, guests were invited to sketch a heart in a digital guestbook to pledge support for the restoration; Chaplin’s sketch was the first, and the one chosen to be engraved onto this watch. Actress Zhao Wei and other guests contributed sketches of their own to the same project. Source: Luxsure, Sept 2016 More Pièces Uniques [**The Charlie Chaplin Reverso**2026 · Hand engraving, available to order](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/charlie-chaplin-reverso)[**The Roger Feutz “Gardien Acrobate” Reverso**1932 · Blue dial · hand-engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roger-feutz-gardien-acrobate-reverso)[**The Balbo Reverso**1933 · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/charlie-chaplin-reverso Summary: Made for Lionel Meylan boutique exclusive, Vevey. Not a single watch but a bespoke engraving offered exclusively through Lionel Meylan’s boutique in Vevey… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2026 # The Charlie Chaplin Reverso Made for Lionel Meylan boutique exclusive, Vevey. Hand engraving, available to order **Year**2026 **Craft**Hand engraving, available to order **Made for**Lionel Meylan boutique exclusive, Vevey Not a single watch but a bespoke engraving offered exclusively through Lionel Meylan’s boutique in Vevey, on any Reverso the client chooses: the instantly recognisable silhouette of Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, seen from behind — bowler hat, cane, oversized trousers, turned-out feet. The idea came from Julien Meylan and was approved by the Chaplin family and by Bubbles Inc., which controls the Chaplin estate; Vevey and neighbouring Corsier-sur-Vevey were Chaplin’s home for his final decades, and the Manoir de Ban there, now a museum, counts Jaeger-LeCoultre as a partner. Chaplin’s daughter Annie Chaplin has called the result “an imprint of the eternal Vagabond created with class, luxury, and finesse.” Source: Lionel Meylan, 2026 More Pièces Uniques [**The Carmen Chaplin Heart Reverso**2016 · Hand-engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/carmen-chaplin-heart-reverso)[**The Roger Feutz “Gardien Acrobate” Reverso**1932 · Blue dial · hand-engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roger-feutz-gardien-acrobate-reverso)[**The Balbo Reverso**1933 · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/balbo-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-for-emergency Summary: Made for Charity campaign, Venice Film Festival. A red heart lacquered across the entire case-back, made for a 2011 campaign timed to the Reverso’s 80th… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2011 # “Reverso for Emergency” Made for Charity campaign, Venice Film Festival. Red lacquer case-back **Year**2011 **Craft**Red lacquer case-back **Made for**Charity campaign, Venice Film Festival A red heart lacquered across the entire case-back, made for a 2011 campaign timed to the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and the 68th Venice Film Festival, in support of Emergency’s Salam Centre for cardiac surgery in Khartoum, Sudan. Photographer Valeria Golino shot friends, colleagues, and her then-partner Riccardo Scamarcio wearing the watch with a hand over the heart for a Vanity Fair Italia portfolio titled “Il cuore è altrove” (“The Heart Is Elsewhere”) — Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Patricia Arquette, Ferzan Özpetek and Isabella Ferrari among them — before the watches appeared on the Venice red carpet. Jaeger-LeCoultre committed to funding ten cardiac operations at the Salam Centre, one for each night of the ten-night festival; the watches themselves were never for sale. Emergency’s own 2011 financial report records that Jaeger-LeCoultre later donated three examples — catalogued at Christie’s as lots 312–314, sold without reserve or premium for the charity’s benefit, one identified as a steel Grande Reverso Ultra Thin, ref. Q2788520, its back in red lacquer with the Salam Centre logo. The idea plays on the Reverso’s own origin story: a case built to protect a mechanical heart, turned instead into a message about protecting human ones. Source: Vanity Fair Italia, 24 Aug 2011; Emergency Annual Report 2011; Christie’s, May 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**“A Rose for Emergency”**2012 · Red lacquer case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-rose-for-emergency-reverso)[**The General Douglas MacArthur Reverso**1937 · Engraved monogram in black lacquer](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso)[**The Charlie Chaplin Reverso**2026 · Hand engraving, available to order](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/charlie-chaplin-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-rose-for-emergency-reverso Summary: Made for Charity campaign, Venice Film Festival. The following year’s chapter of the same partnership: a red rose in lacquer, its stem forming the word… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2012 # “A Rose for Emergency” Made for Charity campaign, Venice Film Festival. Red lacquer case-back **Year**2012 **Craft**Red lacquer case-back **Made for**Charity campaign, Venice Film Festival The following year’s chapter of the same partnership: a red rose in lacquer, its stem forming the word “for” as it runs toward Emergency’s circled-E emblem — “A Rose for Emergency,” spelled out entirely in one image, with no maison or festival branding anywhere on the case-back. Made for the 69th Venice Film Festival in support of Emergency’s maternity centre in Anabah, Afghanistan, surrounded by the rose garden that gave the campaign its symbol; actress Cristiana Capotondi, the project’s patron, visited the centre that July. Jaeger-LeCoultre funded the centre for the length of the festival, timed to the roughly ten births a day the centre was seeing — over 100 expected across the festival’s run. Men’s and women’s Grande Reverso Ultra Thin versions were made; Emergency’s 2012 annual report confirms two were donated by Jaeger-LeCoultre and later sold at auction, with proceeds going entirely to the Anabah centre. Source: Emergency Annual Report 2012; Jaeger-LeCoultre press materials, Aug 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**“Reverso for Emergency”**2011 · Red lacquer case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-for-emergency)[**The General Douglas MacArthur Reverso**1937 · Engraved monogram in black lacquer](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso)[**The “Wimbledon” Cloisonné Enamel Reverso**1940s · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wimbledon-cloisonne-enamel-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wimbledon-cloisonne-enamel-reverso Summary: A stainless steel Reverso (case No. 24624) whose cloisonné enamel dial depicts a tennis player against a green grass ground — read by specialists as a… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1940s # The “Wimbledon” Cloisonné Enamel Reverso Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères **Year**1940s **Craft**Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères **Made for**Unknown A stainless steel Reverso (case No. 24624) whose cloisonné enamel dial depicts a tennis player against a green grass ground — read by specialists as a Wimbledon reference, since a closely related dial with a red clay ground (read as Roland Garros) is separately documented. The dial is stamped 104*009 on its edge, in the numbering system used by Stern Frères, the Geneva firm that supplied cloisonné dials to Patek Philippe, Rolex, Omega and Jaeger-LeCoultre alike — 104 is Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own house code in that system, and the digits after the star identify the specific design. A comparable clay-ground “tennis” dial sold at Christie’s in 2018 for more than CHF 50,000; the green-grass version here was, as far as the consignor could establish, the first of its kind to appear at auction at all. Source: Auction house cataloguing, cloisonné tennis dial group More Pièces Uniques [**The Roland Garros 1952 Reverso**1952 · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères · engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roland-garros-1952-reverso)[**The Cloisonné Polo Player Reverso**1937 · Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/cloisonne-polo-player-reverso)[**The Wrist Reverso “Topaz” (Alfons Mucha)**c. 1999–2000 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wrist-reverso-topaz-alfons-mucha) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roland-garros-1952-reverso Summary: Made for Possibly presented to Jaroslav Drobný. A steel Staybrite Reverso (case No. 467193) whose cloisonné enamel dial — stamped 104*014, the “tennis… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1952 # The Roland Garros 1952 Reverso Made for Possibly presented to Jaroslav Drobný. Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères · engraved case-back **Year**1952 **Craft**Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères · engraved case-back **Made for**Possibly presented to Jaroslav Drobný A steel Staybrite Reverso (case No. 467193) whose cloisonné enamel dial — stamped 104*014, the “tennis player” design in the Stern Frères numbering system — shares its maker with the Wimbledon-ground dial elsewhere in this archive. The case-back is engraved “Roland Garros 1952,” alongside a facsimile signature of René Lacoste and Lacoste’s crocodile emblem; Lacoste, a former French Open champion himself, had founded his clothing house in 1933 and was closely tied to the tournament. Auction house research considers it highly probable, though unconfirmed, that Lacoste presented this specific watch to that year’s men’s singles champion, the Czech player Jaroslav Drobný — who also won Roland Garros the year before, in 1951, and Wimbledon in 1954. Named for the aviator and WWI hero, the Roland Garros stadium was built in 1928 for France’s first Davis Cup entry. Source: Christie’s lot notes, Reverso Roland Garros 1952 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Wimbledon” Cloisonné Enamel Reverso**1940s · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wimbledon-cloisonne-enamel-reverso)[**The Cloisonné Polo Player Reverso**1937 · Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/cloisonne-polo-player-reverso)[**The Wrist Reverso “Topaz” (Alfons Mucha)**c. 1999–2000 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wrist-reverso-topaz-alfons-mucha) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/cloisonne-polo-player-reverso Summary: Made for Initials “AJ”. A steel Reverso, ref. 1101 (case No. 25027, movement No. 74350), fitted at some later point with a cloisonné enamel dial depicting a… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1937 # The Cloisonné Polo Player Reverso Made for Initials “AJ”. Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials **Year**1937 **Craft**Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials **Made for**Initials “AJ” A steel Reverso, ref. 1101 (case No. 25027, movement No. 74350), fitted at some later point with a cloisonné enamel dial depicting a polo player in action — an appropriate choice for a case shape born on the polo field, even though the dial itself was added after the watch’s 1937 manufacture rather than at the factory. Runs the octagonal-shaped, nickel-finished calibre 411 with 15 jewels and a rotating sweep centre-seconds disc built into the rectangular back-plate, a genuinely unusual complication for the period. The case-back carries engraved initials “AJ,” whose owner is not otherwise documented. Source: Auction house cataloguing, ref. 1101 More Pièces Uniques [**The Roland Garros 1952 Reverso**1952 · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères · engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roland-garros-1952-reverso)[**The Wrist Reverso “Topaz” (Alfons Mucha)**c. 1999–2000 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wrist-reverso-topaz-alfons-mucha)[**The “Wimbledon” Cloisonné Enamel Reverso**1940s · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wimbledon-cloisonne-enamel-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wrist-reverso-topaz-alfons-mucha Summary: Made for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own archive/museum. A Grande Taille wristwatch carrying the same Topaz miniature that Jaeger-LeCoultre also produced as one of… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · c. 1999–2000 # The Wrist Reverso “Topaz” (Alfons Mucha) Made for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own archive/museum. Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel **Year**c. 1999–2000 **Craft**Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel **Made for**Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own archive/museum A Grande Taille wristwatch carrying the same Topaz miniature that Jaeger-LeCoultre also produced as one of four jewelled Reverso pocket watches in its “Pierres Précieuses” set (catalogued elsewhere in this archive) — reproducing Alfons Mucha’s 1900 lithograph *The Precious Stones: Topaz*, one of four panels personifying gemstones as women, alongside Ruby, Amethyst and Emerald. Whether this wrist version was ever offered for sale, or exists only as an archive/prototype example held by the manufacture itself, isn’t established by any source found so far; it’s catalogued here as a unique piece for that reason, distinct from the four confirmed pocket watches. Almost certainly built on the same Grande Taille platform as the contemporary Mucha Four Seasons watches — 18k yellow gold, manual movement, white enamel dial, small seconds — though this specific reference has not been confirmed. Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre archive photography More Pièces Uniques [**The Cloisonné Polo Player Reverso**1937 · Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/cloisonne-polo-player-reverso)[**The Tamara de Lempicka Quartet**2003 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/tamara-de-lempicka-quartet-reverso)[**The Roland Garros 1952 Reverso**1952 · Cloisonné enamel dial, Stern Frères · engraved case-back](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/roland-garros-1952-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/tamara-de-lempicka-quartet-reverso Summary: Made for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own archive — never offered for sale. Four Grande Taille Reversos shown at the Geneva watch fair (SIHH) in 2003, each case-back… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2003 # The Tamara de Lempicka Quartet Made for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own archive — never offered for sale. Grand feu enamel miniature painting **Year**2003 **Craft**Grand feu enamel miniature painting **Made for**Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own archive — never offered for sale Four Grande Taille Reversos shown at the Geneva watch fair (SIHH) in 2003, each case-back enamelled with a miniature reproduction of a different painting by Tamara de Lempicka, the Art Deco portraitist — and, unlike almost everything else in this archive, never produced for sale at all. One collector who saw them has written that he has “forever dreamed” of the set since. Pieces like this exist in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own accumulated stock of enamel work for reasons that have nothing to do with commerce: some are works in progress, others demonstration pieces the manufacture keeps specifically to show at exhibitions, since reproducing a painting in enamel miniature demands that the enameller match not just the original artist’s draughtsmanship at a fraction of the scale, but the exact colour of the source work as well. Individual titles for the four Lempicka paintings reproduced are not documented in the source describing them. Source: Collector account, SIHH 2003 More Pièces Uniques [**The Wrist Reverso “Topaz” (Alfons Mucha)**c. 1999–2000 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wrist-reverso-topaz-alfons-mucha)[**The Cloisonné Polo Player Reverso**1937 · Cloisonné enamel dial · sweep centre seconds · engraved initials](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/cloisonne-polo-player-reverso)[**The “Reverso II” Enamel Coat of Arms**1980s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-ii-enamel-coat-of-arms) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/big-dipper-reverso Summary: A steel Reverso built around a double dial with a 24-hour display, its specially made blue starburst dial mapping the stars of the Big Dipper (Ursa Major)… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2000 # The “Big Dipper” Reverso Double dial, 24-hour display, custom starburst dial **Year**2000 **Craft**Double dial, 24-hour display, custom starburst dial **Made for**Unknown **Reference**272’854 A steel Reverso built around a double dial with a 24-hour display, its specially made blue starburst dial mapping the stars of the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) across the face rather than showing a conventional astronomical complication. Case No. 2’190’694, dated by Christie’s to circa 2000. The kind of one-off constellation dial that turns a Reverso into something closer to a wearable star chart than a watch. Source: Christie’s cataloguing, ref. 272’854 More Pièces Uniques [**The Tamara de Lempicka Quartet**2003 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/tamara-de-lempicka-quartet-reverso)[**The “Reverso II” Enamel Coat of Arms**1980s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-ii-enamel-coat-of-arms)[**The Wrist Reverso “Topaz” (Alfons Mucha)**c. 1999–2000 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wrist-reverso-topaz-alfons-mucha) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-ii-enamel-coat-of-arms Summary: Made for No. 185413. An 18k yellow gold reversible wristwatch with an enamelled coat of arms on the case-back, fitted with an 18k yellow gold deployant… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1980s # The “Reverso II” Enamel Coat of Arms Made for No. 185413. Enamel coat of arms **Year**1980s **Craft**Enamel coat of arms **Made for**No. 185413 **Reference**1410031 / 1560663 An 18k yellow gold reversible wristwatch with an enamelled coat of arms on the case-back, fitted with an 18k yellow gold deployant clasp signed by Cartier rather than Jaeger-LeCoultre — a detail auction cataloguing leaves unexplained, though rival maisons occasionally supplied straps, clasps or cases for one another’s watches earlier in the 20th century, particularly when sold through shared retail or family connections. Source: Antiquorum cataloguing, No. 185413 More Pièces Uniques [**The Steel Enamelled Coat of Arms Reverso**1950s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/steel-enamelled-coat-of-arms-reverso)[**The Tamara de Lempicka Quartet**2003 · Grand feu enamel miniature painting](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/tamara-de-lempicka-quartet-reverso)[**The Onyx Bracelet Coat of Arms Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms · extensible steel bracelet with onyx plates](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/onyx-bracelet-coat-of-arms-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/steel-enamelled-coat-of-arms-reverso Summary: Made for Movement No. 17644. A steel Reverso with an enamelled coat of arms on the case-back, movement No. 17644, case No. 11215 — continuing, two decades… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1950s # The Steel Enamelled Coat of Arms Reverso Made for Movement No. 17644. Enamel coat of arms **Year**1950s **Craft**Enamel coat of arms **Made for**Movement No. 17644 A steel Reverso with an enamelled coat of arms on the case-back, movement No. 17644, case No. 11215 — continuing, two decades on, the same personalisation tradition that produced the 1930s coat-of-arms Reversos elsewhere in this archive, this time on a steel rather than precious-metal case. Source: Antiquorum cataloguing, movement no. 17644 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Reverso II” Enamel Coat of Arms**1980s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-ii-enamel-coat-of-arms)[**The Onyx Bracelet Coat of Arms Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms · extensible steel bracelet with onyx plates](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/onyx-bracelet-coat-of-arms-reverso)[**The “Wiener Cercle” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel medallion](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wiener-cercle-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/onyx-bracelet-coat-of-arms-reverso Summary: A steel gentleman’s Reverso whose case-back carries a red and yellow polychrome enamel coat of arms set against a black ground — paired with an extensible… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The Onyx Bracelet Coat of Arms Reverso Polychrome enamel coat of arms · extensible steel bracelet with onyx plates **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms · extensible steel bracelet with onyx plates **Made for**Unknown A steel gentleman’s Reverso whose case-back carries a red and yellow polychrome enamel coat of arms set against a black ground — paired with an extensible steel bracelet decorated with black onyx plates, an unusually decorative bracelet treatment for a 1930s sports watch. Coat-of-arms Reversos from this decade are typically documented with plain leather straps; the onyx-plated bracelet here is a genuine rarity within that group. Source: Antiquorum cataloguing, 1930s More Pièces Uniques [**The Steel Enamelled Coat of Arms Reverso**1950s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/steel-enamelled-coat-of-arms-reverso)[**The “Wiener Cercle” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel medallion](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wiener-cercle-reverso)[**The “Reverso II” Enamel Coat of Arms**1980s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-ii-enamel-coat-of-arms) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wiener-cercle-reverso Summary: Made for A Vienna gentlemen’s club. A yellow gold Reverso whose case-back carries an oval medallion reading “WIENER CERCLE” around a standing knight in… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The “Wiener Cercle” Reverso Made for A Vienna gentlemen’s club. Polychrome enamel medallion **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel medallion **Made for**A Vienna gentlemen’s club A yellow gold Reverso whose case-back carries an oval medallion reading “WIENER CERCLE” around a standing knight in armour bearing a flag — almost certainly the badge of a Vienna gentlemen’s club or circle (“cercle” being French for “circle” or club) active in the interwar period. One of a set of nine 1930s Reversos photographed together and published on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, in a chapter titled “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” captioned: “A fine collection of Reversos decorated with intricate, coloured coats of arms. All these examples date from the thirties.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The Onyx Bracelet Coat of Arms Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms · extensible steel bracelet with onyx plates](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/onyx-bracelet-coat-of-arms-reverso)[**The “Sans Peur” Griffin Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/sans-peur-griffin-reverso)[**The Steel Enamelled Coat of Arms Reverso**1950s · Enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/steel-enamelled-coat-of-arms-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/sans-peur-griffin-reverso Summary: Made for Possibly Clan Sutherland, Scotland — not confirmed. A steel Reverso whose case-back carries a red winged lion or griffin rampant on a pentagonal… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The “Sans Peur” Griffin Reverso Made for Possibly Clan Sutherland, Scotland — not confirmed. Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Made for**Possibly Clan Sutherland, Scotland — not confirmed A steel Reverso whose case-back carries a red winged lion or griffin rampant on a pentagonal shield beneath a coronet, with a scrolled banner beneath reading “SANS PEUR” — French for “without fear.” That motto is best known as the war cry and clan motto of Clan Sutherland in Scotland, though the Sutherland crest badge is traditionally a wildcat rather than a griffin, so the match isn’t certain; “Sans Peur” has also been used as a motto by other families and regiments over the centuries. One of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Wiener Cercle” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel medallion](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wiener-cercle-reverso)[**The “HMS Victory” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel badge](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/hms-victory-reverso)[**The Onyx Bracelet Coat of Arms Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms · extensible steel bracelet with onyx plates](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/onyx-bracelet-coat-of-arms-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/hms-victory-reverso Summary: Made for Royal Navy — HMS Victory. A steel Reverso decorated with a Royal Navy badge: a running horse on a red oval, ringed with the lettering “O·H·M·S” (On… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The “HMS Victory” Reverso Made for Royal Navy — HMS Victory. Polychrome enamel badge **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel badge **Made for**Royal Navy — HMS Victory A steel Reverso decorated with a Royal Navy badge: a running horse on a red oval, ringed with the lettering “O·H·M·S” (On His Majesty’s Service) above and “VICTORY” below, a royal crown at the top and a laurel wreath beneath framing the initials “R·N.” The wording all but confirms a direct connection to HMS Victory, Nelson’s Trafalgar flagship, permanently berthed at Portsmouth and also the name used for the Royal Navy’s Portsmouth shore establishment through the twentieth century — making this one of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume that is, unusually, tied to a specific, identifiable institution rather than an unattributed family or club. Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Sans Peur” Griffin Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/sans-peur-griffin-reverso)[**The House of Savoy Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/house-of-savoy-reverso)[**The “Wiener Cercle” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel medallion](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/wiener-cercle-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/house-of-savoy-reverso Summary: Made for Kingdom of Italy — House of Savoy. A steel Reverso whose case-back carries a red shield bearing a white cross beneath a royal crown — the basic… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The House of Savoy Reverso Made for Kingdom of Italy — House of Savoy. Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Made for**Kingdom of Italy — House of Savoy A steel Reverso whose case-back carries a red shield bearing a white cross beneath a royal crown — the basic arms of the House of Savoy, adopted as the state arms of the Kingdom of Italy itself from unification in 1861 until the monarchy’s abolition in 1946. The shield sits inside a circular black-and-gold border carrying a repeating decorative or pseudo-lettered motif, in a style consistent with the collar of an Italian royal order (the Order of the Crown of Italy and the Military and Civil Orders of Savoy all used a red-and-white Savoy cross at their centre); which specific order, if any, isn’t confirmed from the photograph alone. One of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The “HMS Victory” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel badge](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/hms-victory-reverso)[**The A.S. Roma Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-s-roma-reverso)[**The “Sans Peur” Griffin Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/sans-peur-griffin-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-s-roma-reverso Summary: Made for Associazione Sportiva Roma — now in the Jaeger-LeCoultre museum. A steel Reverso carrying the historic crest of A.S. Roma, the Italian football… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The A.S. Roma Reverso Made for Associazione Sportiva Roma — now in the Jaeger-LeCoultre museum. Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Made for**Associazione Sportiva Roma — now in the Jaeger-LeCoultre museum A steel Reverso carrying the historic crest of A.S. Roma, the Italian football club founded in 1927: the Capitoline Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus on a yellow field in the shield’s upper half, and the intertwined gold monogram “ASR” (Associazione Sportiva Roma) on red in the lower half. This is specifically the illustrated 1934 version of the crest, the same shield-and-wolf design the club reintroduced in 1997 and again in 2025’s “progressive return” to its historic badge — making this one of the more confidently identifiable pieces in the group of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship.” A separate page of the same volume, showing this watch again on a tan leather strap, confirms it is now part of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own museum collection. Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 and facing page; club crest history confirmed via multiple club and press sources More Pièces Uniques [**The House of Savoy Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/house-of-savoy-reverso)[**The Crescent and Mullets Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/crescent-and-mullets-reverso)[**The “HMS Victory” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel badge](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/hms-victory-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/crescent-and-mullets-reverso Summary: Made for Unidentified. A steel Reverso whose case-back carries a crowned shield: a red band across the top bearing a crescent moon flanked by two mullets… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The Crescent and Mullets Reverso Made for Unidentified. Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Made for**Unidentified A steel Reverso whose case-back carries a crowned shield: a red band across the top bearing a crescent moon flanked by two mullets (heraldic stars), above a shield quartered diagonally in white and black, a small gold shield at its centre and a red lion in the lower field, with a scrolled ribbon beneath. Crescents and mullets together are a recurring device across a number of British family arms, but nothing in the source identifies which family or institution this specific combination belongs to. One of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The A.S. Roma Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-s-roma-reverso)[**The “Nec Timide Nec Tarde” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nec-timide-nec-tarde-reverso)[**The House of Savoy Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/house-of-savoy-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nec-timide-nec-tarde-reverso Summary: Made for Unidentified. A steel Reverso with a quartered shield alternating navy fields charged with gold rampant lions and red fields each charged with… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The “Nec Timide Nec Tarde” Reverso Made for Unidentified. Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Made for**Unidentified A steel Reverso with a quartered shield alternating navy fields charged with gold rampant lions and red fields each charged with three silver bells, above a scrolled motto banner reading “NEC TIMIDE NEC TARDE” — roughly, “neither timidly nor slowly.” It closely echoes the better-documented Latin motto “Nec temere, nec timide” (“neither rashly nor timidly”), used historically by the town of Oswestry, the city of Gdańsk, and several British armigerous families including Bailey and Forbes — though none of those known arms match this specific lion-and-bell quartering, so the exact institution behind this version remains unconfirmed. One of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The Crescent and Mullets Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/crescent-and-mullets-reverso)[**The “Fideliter” Herons Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/fideliter-herons-reverso)[**The A.S. Roma Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-s-roma-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/fideliter-herons-reverso Summary: Made for Unidentified. A steel Reverso with a shield divided into black-and-white lozenge-patterned quarters, three white herons or egrets standing in the… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The “Fideliter” Herons Reverso Made for Unidentified. Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Polychrome enamel coat of arms **Made for**Unidentified A steel Reverso with a shield divided into black-and-white lozenge-patterned quarters, three white herons or egrets standing in the upper and lower fields and three red roundels each centred with a white cinquefoil (five-petalled flower) across the middle band, above a scrolled banner reading “FIDELITER” — Latin for “faithfully.” “Fideliter” is a common heraldic motto used by numerous unrelated families and institutions, and herons are frequently used as canting (punning) charges for surnames like Heron or Herne, but nothing in the source narrows this to a specific one. One of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Nec Timide Nec Tarde” Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nec-timide-nec-tarde-reverso)[**The Crescent and Mullets Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/crescent-and-mullets-reverso)[**The A.S. Roma Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-s-roma-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/mj-monogram-reverso Summary: Made for Initials “MJ”. A steel Reverso engraved simply with the interlocked initials “MJ” inside a hexagonal outline — no enamel, no colour, no heraldry.… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The “MJ” Monogram Reverso Made for Initials “MJ”. Engraved monogram, no colour **Year**1930s **Craft**Engraved monogram, no colour **Made for**Initials “MJ” A steel Reverso engraved simply with the interlocked initials “MJ” inside a hexagonal outline — no enamel, no colour, no heraldry. Included in the same photographed group as the eight coat-of-arms Reversos elsewhere in this archive specifically as a contrast: the accompanying book text discusses both monograms and coats of arms as period decoration techniques, and this piece represents the plainer of the two. One of nine 1930s Reversos published together on page 78 of a Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” which quotes an unnamed technical textbook’s rule for engraving of any kind: “but above all, it must be beautiful.” Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship,” p.78 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Aéroclub Suisse de Bâle” Reverso**1933 · Engraved emblem and lettering](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/aeroclub-suisse-de-bale-reverso)[**The Heidelberg Vineyard Reverso**Engraved coat of arms, matched to a physical object](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/heidelberg-vineyard-reverso)[**The Scherb Family Reverso**Engraved private coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scherb-family-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/aeroclub-suisse-de-bale-reverso Summary: Made for Presented to pilot Alphonse Kammacher. A steel Reverso engraved with a winged “ACS” emblem and the word “BASEL” beneath — a gift from the Aéroclub… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1933 # The “Aéroclub Suisse de Bâle” Reverso Made for Presented to pilot Alphonse Kammacher. Engraved emblem and lettering **Year**1933 **Craft**Engraved emblem and lettering **Made for**Presented to pilot Alphonse Kammacher A steel Reverso engraved with a winged “ACS” emblem and the word “BASEL” beneath — a gift from the Aéroclub Suisse de Bâle (the Swiss Aero Club’s Basel chapter) to its “meritorious pilot,” Alphonse Kammacher, in 1933. Per the same Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage volume that documents it, the watch also carried the inscription “Mit Dank für die Siege” (“With thanks for the victories”), and its presentation was accompanied by the battle cry “On a gagné” (“We won”) — a piece of triumphalism the book notes “raised some eyebrows” given the tense European political climate of the early 1930s. Remarkably, the book reports that Sirio Vernati, a member of that same winning team, still wore the watch decades later, at the time of the book’s writing. Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “In Praise of Craftsmanship” (facing page 78) More Pièces Uniques [**The “MJ” Monogram Reverso**1930s · Engraved monogram, no colour](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/mj-monogram-reverso)[**The Heidelberg Vineyard Reverso**Engraved coat of arms, matched to a physical object](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/heidelberg-vineyard-reverso)[**The Scherb Family Reverso**Engraved private coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scherb-family-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/heidelberg-vineyard-reverso Summary: Made for A vineyard owner near Heidelberg, Germany. A yellow gold Reverso, on a brown leather strap, engraved with an ornate armorial figure — a robed… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique # The Heidelberg Vineyard Reverso Made for A vineyard owner near Heidelberg, Germany. Engraved coat of arms, matched to a physical object **Craft**Engraved coat of arms, matched to a physical object **Made for**A vineyard owner near Heidelberg, Germany A yellow gold Reverso, on a brown leather strap, engraved with an ornate armorial figure — a robed, staff-bearing figure set within scrollwork and grape-vine motifs. Per Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own heritage volume, the owner, who ran a small vineyard near Heidelberg, had the engraving copied directly from the artistic heraldic decoration already carved into the iron door of an old oak wine barrel that was “the pride of his cellar” — a barrel bearing the maker’s name “Seeger,” a date reading “1855 … 1955” and “500 Jahr,” and a German rhyming inscription roughly translating to “drinking makes you cheerful, so drink wine with God, and you will be cheerful and blessed your whole life long.” The book frames this as a demonstration of the Reverso’s flexibility as a canvas: rather than a family coat of arms or a club badge, this owner chose to reproduce the specific decorative emblem of an object he prized in his own life. Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication (chapter on personalisation, facing the “Heraldry for Beginners” chapter) More Pièces Uniques [**The “Aéroclub Suisse de Bâle” Reverso**1933 · Engraved emblem and lettering](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/aeroclub-suisse-de-bale-reverso)[**The Scherb Family Reverso**Engraved private coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scherb-family-reverso)[**The “MJ” Monogram Reverso**1930s · Engraved monogram, no colour](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/mj-monogram-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scherb-family-reverso Summary: Made for The Scherb family, Basel. A two-tone gold Reverso, on a brown leather strap, engraved with a cormorant holding a fish in its beak — the private… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique # The Scherb Family Reverso Made for The Scherb family, Basel. Engraved private coat of arms **Craft**Engraved private coat of arms **Made for**The Scherb family, Basel A two-tone gold Reverso, on a brown leather strap, engraved with a cormorant holding a fish in its beak — the private coat of arms of the Scherb family of Basel, per Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own heritage volume, in a chapter titled “Heraldry for Beginners.” The book explains the charge directly: the cormorant with a fish alludes to the family’s ancestral livelihood as fishermen on the Rhine. The same page illustrates the arms of the Vallée de Joux itself — combining a bear, a monk, and crossed weapons and keys, emblems typical of the municipalities in JLC’s own home valley — as a point of comparison between a civic coat of arms and a genuine private family one like the Scherbs’. Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre heritage publication, “Heraldry for Beginners,” p.72 More Pièces Uniques [**The Heidelberg Vineyard Reverso**Engraved coat of arms, matched to a physical object](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/heidelberg-vineyard-reverso)[**The “Aéroclub Suisse de Bâle” Reverso**1933 · Engraved emblem and lettering](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/aeroclub-suisse-de-bale-reverso)[**The Prince Aage of Denmark Reverso**1934 · Engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/floreat-etona-reverso Summary: Made for Unknown — an enduring mystery. It bears the arms and motto of Eton College — Floreat Etona, “may Eton flourish”. And it is a ladies’ model. Eton… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1933 # The “Floreat Etona” Reverso Made for Unknown — an enduring mystery. Enamelled crest **Year**1933 **Craft**Enamelled crest **Made for**Unknown — an enduring mystery It bears the arms and motto of Eton College — *Floreat Etona*, “may Eton flourish”. And it is a ladies’ model. Eton admitted only male pupils, so the likeliest explanation is a gift from a pupil to a girlfriend, or a master to his wife. The archive has never established who owned it, which leaves open the far more romantic possibility the Yearbook itself entertains: that it belonged to the first female pupil at Eton, in the early 1930s. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 — “Reverso Confidential” More Pièces Uniques [**The “Maharani” Reverso**1936 · Miniature enamel portrait](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso)[**The “Fideliter” Herons Reverso**1930s · Polychrome enamel coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/fideliter-herons-reverso)[**The British Racing Drivers’ Club Reverso**1937 · Enamelled club emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/british-racing-drivers-club-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso Summary: Made for Prince Aage of Denmark (1887–1940). The company archive holds a letter sent from Algiers in 1934 congratulating the maison on a Reverso that had… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1934 # The Prince Aage of Denmark Reverso Made for Prince Aage of Denmark (1887–1940). Engraving **Year**1934 **Craft**Engraving **Made for**Prince Aage of Denmark (1887–1940) The company archive holds a letter sent from Algiers in 1934 congratulating the maison on a Reverso that had withstood the conditions of southern Morocco. It was signed by a Danish prince who had traded a colonel’s commission in the Danish army for the French Foreign Legion, and who commanded legion corps in Morocco as *capitaine à titre étranger*. Proof, in the maison’s own files, that the Reverso was worn not only by sportsmen but by soldiers. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The Amelia Earhart Reverso**1935 · Engraved map](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso)[**The Scherb Family Reverso**Engraved private coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scherb-family-reverso)[**The Heidelberg Vineyard Reverso**Engraved coat of arms, matched to a physical object](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/heidelberg-vineyard-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso Summary: Made for Commemorating Amelia Earhart. Engraved with a map of the Americas and the words MEXICO – NEW YORK, MAY 8 1935. Earhart had flown 1,126 km across… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1935 # The Amelia Earhart Reverso Made for Commemorating Amelia Earhart. Engraved map **Year**1935 **Craft**Engraved map **Made for**Commemorating Amelia Earhart Engraved with a map of the Americas and the words MEXICO – NEW YORK, MAY 8 1935. Earhart had flown 1,126 km across the Gulf of Mexico along the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, completing the first Mexico–New York flight in 13 hours and 5 minutes. Two years later she disappeared over the Pacific at the height of her fame. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The Prince Aage of Denmark Reverso**1934 · Engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso)[**The Maharaja of Jaipur Reverso**1930s · Engraved coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharaja-of-jaipur-reverso)[**The Scherb Family Reverso**Engraved private coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/scherb-family-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso Summary: Made for Probably Kanchan Prabha Devi. The earliest documented enamelled Reverso: a yellow-gold case carrying a miniature enamel portrait of an Indian… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1936 # The “Maharani” Reverso Made for Probably Kanchan Prabha Devi. Miniature enamel portrait **Year**1936 **Craft**Miniature enamel portrait **Made for**Probably Kanchan Prabha Devi The earliest documented enamelled Reverso: a yellow-gold case carrying a miniature enamel portrait of an Indian woman. It was bought in Mumbai by a Lufthansa captain during the 1990s and entered the manufacture’s own collection in 2004. Research across Indian and Swiss archives points to *Kanchan Prabha Devi* — born 1914, eldest daughter of the Maharaja of Panna, who on her seventeenth birthday became the second wife of the Maharaja of Tripura, a princely state near what is now the Bangladesh border. The identification has never been proved beyond doubt, and the watch remains the most enigmatic of the early Reversos. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso*; JLC Yearbook FIVE More Pièces Uniques [**The British Racing Drivers’ Club Reverso**1937 · Enamelled club emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/british-racing-drivers-club-reverso)[**The “Floreat Etona” Reverso**1933 · Enamelled crest](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/floreat-etona-reverso)[**The Rama Reverso**1949 · Miniature enamel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/rama-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharaja-of-jaipur-reverso Summary: Made for Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur. Engraved with the arms of the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur — moderniser of Rajasthan and a polo champion of… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1930s # The Maharaja of Jaipur Reverso Made for Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur. Engraved coat of arms **Year**1930s **Craft**Engraved coat of arms **Made for**Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur Engraved with the arms of the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur — moderniser of Rajasthan and a polo champion of international standing. Of all the personalised Reversos, this is the one that closes the circle most exactly: the watch invented on an Indian polo field, engraved for the man who was arguably the era’s greatest Indian polo player. LeCoultre calibre 410, steel. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The Amelia Earhart Reverso**1935 · Engraved map](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso)[**The Edward VIII Reverso**1937 · Engraved royal arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/edward-viii-reverso)[**The Prince Aage of Denmark Reverso**1934 · Engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/prince-aage-of-denmark-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/british-racing-drivers-club-reverso Summary: Made for A BRDC member. The BRDC was founded in 1928 over a series of legendary dinners hosted by Dr J.D. Benjafield, after he and Sammy Davis won the 1927… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1937 # The British Racing Drivers’ Club Reverso Made for A BRDC member. Enamelled club emblem **Year**1937 **Craft**Enamelled club emblem **Made for**A BRDC member The BRDC was founded in 1928 over a series of legendary dinners hosted by Dr J.D. Benjafield, after he and Sammy Davis won the 1927 Le Mans 24 Hours in a wrecked Bentley — repaired by torchlight, headlights replaced with a hand torch. The club’s emblem shows the *Razor Blade*, at 47 cm the narrowest racing car of its day. The link runs deeper than decoration: Jaeger supplied dashboard instruments to Bugatti, Bentley, Maserati, Panhard and Aston Martin’s predecessor Bamford & Martin. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The “Maharani” Reverso**1936 · Miniature enamel portrait](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso)[**The Rama Reverso**1949 · Miniature enamel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/rama-reverso)[**The Reverso à Éclipses by Zep**2011 · Miniature enamel behind a shutter mechanism](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-a-eclipses-by-zep) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/edward-viii-reverso Summary: Made for King Edward VIII. Engraved with a crown, EDWARD VIII and the date 1937 — the year of a coronation that never happened. The ceremony had been set… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1937 # The Edward VIII Reverso Made for King Edward VIII. Engraved royal arms **Year**1937 **Craft**Engraved royal arms **Made for**King Edward VIII Engraved with a crown, EDWARD VIII and the date 1937 — the year of a coronation that never happened. The ceremony had been set for 12 May 1937, which explains both the date and the crown. Edward abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson; the watch was engraved anyway and still carries the trace of a dream of grandeur that gave way to a love story. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The Maharaja of Jaipur Reverso**1930s · Engraved coat of arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharaja-of-jaipur-reverso)[**The Swiss national football team Reversos**1938 · Engraved dedication](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/swiss-national-football-team-reversos)[**The Amelia Earhart Reverso**1935 · Engraved map](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/amelia-earhart-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/rama-reverso Summary: An enamelled miniature of the Hindu deity Rama — hero of the Ramayana, in whom some Indian scholars see the ancestor of the Western fairy-tale prince. Shown… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1949 # The Rama Reverso Miniature enamel **Year**1949 **Craft**Miniature enamel **Made for**Unknown An enamelled miniature of the Hindu deity Rama — hero of the *Ramayana*, in whom some Indian scholars see the ancestor of the Western fairy-tale prince. Shown by the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2009 in *Maharaja: the Splendour of India’s Royal Courts*, and a reminder that the Reverso’s relationship with the subcontinent never really ended. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The Reverso à Éclipses by Zep**2011 · Miniature enamel behind a shutter mechanism](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-a-eclipses-by-zep)[**The British Racing Drivers’ Club Reverso**1937 · Enamelled club emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/british-racing-drivers-club-reverso)[**The “Maharani” Reverso**1936 · Miniature enamel portrait](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-a-eclipses-by-zep Summary: Made for Pièce unique, sold for charity. Made for the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and decorated by Philippe Chappuis — “Zep”, creator of the comic Titeuf.… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2011 # The Reverso à Éclipses by Zep Made for Pièce unique, sold for charity. Miniature enamel behind a shutter mechanism **Year**2011 **Craft**Miniature enamel behind a shutter mechanism **Made for**Pièce unique, sold for charity Made for the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and decorated by Philippe Chappuis — “Zep”, creator of the comic *Titeuf*. Turning a small wheel above the crown opens two shutters to reveal the drawing beneath: Titeuf climbing inside the watch’s gear train, the artist’s nod to Chaplin in *Modern Times*. The image was reproduced in miniature enamel by one of the manufacture’s own enamellers, more than eighty hours of work. It was sold at Artcurial in Paris on 29 November 2011, with the proceeds going to the Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies. Source: Artcurial, *Jaeger-LeCoultre Unique Auction*, Paris, 29 Nov 2011, lot 519 More Pièces Uniques [**The Rama Reverso**1949 · Miniature enamel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/rama-reverso)[**The British Racing Drivers’ Club Reverso**1937 · Enamelled club emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/british-racing-drivers-club-reverso)[**The “Maharani” Reverso**1936 · Miniature enamel portrait](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/maharani-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/swiss-national-football-team-reversos Summary: Made for The 1938 Swiss World Cup squad. Bought from the retailer Gübelin by the Swiss Football Association and presented to the national side after the… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1938 # The Swiss national football team Reversos Made for The 1938 Swiss World Cup squad. Engraved dedication **Year**1938 **Craft**Engraved dedication **Made for**The 1938 Swiss World Cup squad Bought from the retailer Gübelin by the Swiss Football Association and presented to the national side after the 1938 World Cup in France. Switzerland’s win over the Germany side carried unmistakable political weight in the Europe of 1938, and the watches went out inscribed with thanks for the victories. Decades later at least one member of that team was still wearing his. A reminder that the engraved Reverso was never only an aristocratic object — it was also how a country said thank you. Source: Fritz, *Reverso: The Living Legend* More Pièces Uniques [**A Hidden Message**2010s · Hand-engraved Chinese poem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-hidden-message-reverso)[**The Detail Is in the Dragon**2010s · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/detail-is-in-the-dragon-reverso)[**The Edward VIII Reverso**1937 · Engraved royal arms](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/edward-viii-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-hidden-message-reverso Summary: Made for Peter Lee, for his wife Yin Sze · Hong Kong SAR, China. Peter Lee spent days perfecting a poem for his wife Yin Sze to mark their tenth… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2010s # A Hidden Message Made for Peter Lee, for his wife Yin Sze · Hong Kong SAR, China. Hand-engraved Chinese poem **Year**2010s **Craft**Hand-engraved Chinese poem **Made for**Peter Lee, for his wife Yin Sze · Hong Kong SAR, China Peter Lee spent days perfecting a poem for his wife Yin Sze to mark their tenth anniversary, then walked into the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique in Hong Kong and asked for the whole thing engraved on the case. Chinese poems are written vertically, in columns running top to bottom and ordered right to left. It reads: *“It is my honour to have you as my wife, I love your kindness, our lonely single days are at an end, and we shall live happily together ever after.”* But it works in two directions. Read horizontally, left to right, the top row says *“love you forever”* and the bottom row says *“Yin Sze, the wonderful wife”* — two more messages hidden inside the first, on a watch whose whole idea is that something is concealed until you turn it over. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The Swiss national football team Reversos**1938 · Engraved dedication](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/swiss-national-football-team-reversos)[**The Detail Is in the Dragon**2010s · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/detail-is-in-the-dragon-reverso)[**A Father’s Treasure**2018 · Engraved from a child’s drawing](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-fathers-treasure-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/detail-is-in-the-dragon-reverso Summary: Made for Juliano Cazarré · Brazil. The Brazilian actor Juliano Cazarré had his favourite tattoo engraved on his Reverso: a tiger and a dragon, locked… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2010s # The Detail Is in the Dragon Made for Juliano Cazarré · Brazil. Hand engraving **Year**2010s **Craft**Hand engraving **Made for**Juliano Cazarré · Brazil The Brazilian actor Juliano Cazarré had his favourite tattoo engraved on his Reverso: a tiger and a dragon, locked together. They are not decoration. They are his two eldest children — the tiger and the dragon are their signs in the Chinese horoscope. In his own words: *“These powerful animals are considered complementary opposites, and together form an unbeatable unit, and in that way they are just like my sons, so different from each other but inseparable in my love for them.”* Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**A Hidden Message**2010s · Hand-engraved Chinese poem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-hidden-message-reverso)[**A Father’s Treasure**2018 · Engraved from a child’s drawing](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-fathers-treasure-reverso)[**The Swiss national football team Reversos**1938 · Engraved dedication](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/swiss-national-football-team-reversos) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-fathers-treasure-reverso Summary: Made for Cho Hyunchul · Seoul, South Korea. For his birthday in 2018, Cho Hyunchul’s five-year-old son Yoonjae painted his portrait — a round face, one eye… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2018 # A Father’s Treasure Made for Cho Hyunchul · Seoul, South Korea. Engraved from a child’s drawing **Year**2018 **Craft**Engraved from a child’s drawing **Made for**Cho Hyunchul · Seoul, South Korea For his birthday in 2018, Cho Hyunchul’s five-year-old son Yoonjae painted his portrait — a round face, one eye larger than the other, a few strokes of hair. It meant enough that his father wanted it with him every day, so he had it engraved on the back of a Reverso Classic bought in Seoul that May, complete with the date and the words *“from YJ”* in the boy’s own hand. It is his most prized possession, and he is already planning to give it away: *“When my son is a grown man, and perhaps himself the father of his own family, I will give him the watch to remind him of the touching moment when he gave his father this wonderful birthday gift.”* Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The Detail Is in the Dragon**2010s · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/detail-is-in-the-dragon-reverso)[**The General Douglas MacArthur Reverso**1937 · Engraved monogram in black lacquer](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso)[**A Hidden Message**2010s · Hand-engraved Chinese poem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-hidden-message-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso Summary: Made for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Five engraved letters — D MAC A — turn an otherwise typical 1930s steel Reverso into one of the most historically loaded… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1937 # The General Douglas MacArthur Reverso Made for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Engraved monogram in black lacquer **Year**1937 **Craft**Engraved monogram in black lacquer **Made for**Gen. Douglas MacArthur Five engraved letters — *D MAC A* — turn an otherwise typical 1930s steel Reverso into one of the most historically loaded watches the maison owns. In 2015 it became the most expensive Reverso ever sold at auction, bought by Jaeger-LeCoultre for its own museum after fierce bidding took it to almost nine times its low estimate. The craftsmanship is not exceptional and the black lacquer around the monogram is slightly chipped; it is the wrist it sat on that made the price. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* (Jaeger-LeCoultre) More Pièces Uniques [**A Father’s Treasure**2018 · Engraved from a child’s drawing](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-fathers-treasure-reverso)[**The Marchioness of Milford Haven Reverso**2010s · Diamond-set night dial, engraved cradle](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/marchioness-of-milford-haven-reverso)[**The Detail Is in the Dragon**2010s · Hand engraving](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/detail-is-in-the-dragon-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/marchioness-of-milford-haven-reverso Summary: Made for Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven. A polo player and long-standing ambassador for the model, given a genuinely blank canvas to mark a… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2010s # The Marchioness of Milford Haven Reverso Made for Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven. Diamond-set night dial, engraved cradle **Year**2010s **Craft**Diamond-set night dial, engraved cradle **Made for**Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven A polo player and long-standing ambassador for the model, given a genuinely blank canvas to mark a decade of collaboration. A plain white dial on the front; flip it and the reverse is midnight blue with diamonds for stars. The personal engraving went somewhere unexpected — the inner face of the cradle that carries the case — and holds her children’s initials, a pair of crossed polo sticks, and a marquess’s coronet for her husband. Worn on a blue Casa Fagliano strap. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The General Douglas MacArthur Reverso**1937 · Engraved monogram in black lacquer](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso)[**A Father’s Treasure**2018 · Engraved from a child’s drawing](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/a-fathers-treasure-reverso)[**The “Liverbird” Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge**2010s · Engraving filled in red](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/liverbird-grande-reverso-1931-rouge) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/giovanni-soldini-reverso Summary: Made for Giovanni Soldini, solo yachtsman. A watch that commemorates a rescue at sea. In February 1999, during the third leg of the Around Alone solo… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 1999 # The Giovanni Soldini Reverso Made for Giovanni Soldini, solo yachtsman. Unique commissioned piece **Year**1999 **Craft**Unique commissioned piece **Made for**Giovanni Soldini, solo yachtsman A watch that commemorates a rescue at sea. In February 1999, during the third leg of the Around Alone solo round-the-world race, Soldini picked up a Mayday from Isabelle Autissier — the first woman to complete a solo competitive circumnavigation — whose boat had capsized. He turned back, found her, and took her aboard. He still won the race, in 116 days, and received the Legion of Honour from the French government for the rescue. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The Marchioness of Milford Haven Reverso**2010s · Diamond-set night dial, engraved cradle](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/marchioness-of-milford-haven-reverso)[**The “Liverbird” Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge**2010s · Engraving filled in red](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/liverbird-grande-reverso-1931-rouge)[**The General Douglas MacArthur Reverso**1937 · Engraved monogram in black lacquer](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/general-douglas-macarthur-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/liverbird-grande-reverso-1931-rouge Summary: Made for Xiaomo Xiong, collector. A Chinese collector bought a Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge specifically in order to engrave it. The back carries the… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2010s # The “Liverbird” Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge Made for Xiaomo Xiong, collector. Engraving filled in red **Year**2010s **Craft**Engraving filled in red **Made for**Xiaomo Xiong, collector A Chinese collector bought a Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge specifically in order to engrave it. The back carries the Liverbird, the phoenix-like symbol of the city of Liverpool and of Liverpool Football Club, engraved in the same red as the dial. He drew it himself on a computer and reshaped it to fit the case — a case-back designed by its own owner rather than by the atelier. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The “Newport” Reverso**2000s · Engraved horse’s head](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/newport-reverso)[**The Marchioness of Milford Haven Reverso**2010s · Diamond-set night dial, engraved cradle](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/marchioness-of-milford-haven-reverso)[**The Nathalie Decoster Reverso**2000s · Engraved message and artist’s emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nathalie-decoster-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/newport-reverso Summary: Made for Mrs. Mazeaud, France. A gift in yellow gold whose surprise lay on the reverse: the engraved head of Newport, an Anglo-Arab horse foaled in 1982 and… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2000s # The “Newport” Reverso Made for Mrs. Mazeaud, France. Engraved horse’s head **Year**2000s **Craft**Engraved horse’s head **Made for**Mrs. Mazeaud, France A gift in yellow gold whose surprise lay on the reverse: the engraved head of Newport, an Anglo-Arab horse foaled in 1982 and the last bred by his owner before his death. Injured in transport and left lame, Newport was spared on the instructions of the owner’s son, who put him out to pasture in his father’s memory. The horse recovered fully, became French three-day-eventing champion in 1992, competed at the Barcelona Olympics, and took second in the team event at the 1997 European championships. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The “Liverbird” Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge**2010s · Engraving filled in red](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/liverbird-grande-reverso-1931-rouge)[**The Nathalie Decoster Reverso**2000s · Engraved message and artist’s emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nathalie-decoster-reverso)[**The “Barbearia Corleone” Reverso**2010s · Engraved emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/barbearia-corleone-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nathalie-decoster-reverso Summary: Made for A gift for her seven-year-old son. The French sculptor Nathalie Decoster had a Reverso engraved for her son at seven: “My darling Louis, I love you… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2000s # The Nathalie Decoster Reverso Made for A gift for her seven-year-old son. Engraved message and artist’s emblem **Year**2000s **Craft**Engraved message and artist’s emblem **Made for**A gift for her seven-year-old son The French sculptor Nathalie Decoster had a Reverso engraved for her son at seven: *“My darling Louis, I love you madly”*, alongside her own emblem — a motif she calls “the passing of time”, which she describes as the symbol of all her work. He is grown now, and wears it every day. In her words, she never expected it would become so important to him: “Now I really see this Reverso as a gift for a lifetime.” Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The “Newport” Reverso**2000s · Engraved horse’s head](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/newport-reverso)[**The “Barbearia Corleone” Reverso**2010s · Engraved emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/barbearia-corleone-reverso)[**The “Liverbird” Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge**2010s · Engraving filled in red](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/liverbird-grande-reverso-1931-rouge) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/barbearia-corleone-reverso Summary: Made for Bruno Van Enck, São Paulo. The emblem of a chain of São Paulo barber shops modelled on 1940s New York — a moustached and bearded skull. The owner… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2010s # The “Barbearia Corleone” Reverso Made for Bruno Van Enck, São Paulo. Engraved emblem **Year**2010s **Craft**Engraved emblem **Made for**Bruno Van Enck, São Paulo The emblem of a chain of São Paulo barber shops modelled on 1940s New York — a moustached and bearded skull. The owner had it tattooed on himself to mark his first year in business, then had the same death’s head engraved on the back of his Reverso. Proof that the case-back tradition never belonged exclusively to princes and generals. Source: Foulkes, *Reverso* More Pièces Uniques [**The Nathalie Decoster Reverso**2000s · Engraved message and artist’s emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/nathalie-decoster-reverso)[**The “Newport” Reverso**2000s · Engraved horse’s head](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/newport-reverso)[**The “Liverbird” Grande Reverso 1931 Rouge**2010s · Engraving filled in red](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/liverbird-grande-reverso-1931-rouge) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/pavonia-reverso Summary: Made for A British art collector. A British collector asked the maison to reproduce, on his own Reverso, the painting he loved most in his collection… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Pièce Unique · 2009 # The “Pavonia” Reverso Made for A British art collector. Miniature enamel painting **Year**2009 **Craft**Miniature enamel painting **Made for**A British art collector A British collector asked the maison to reproduce, on his own Reverso, the painting he loved most in his collection: Frederic Leighton’s *Pavonia* (1858–59). Miklós Merczel of the Métiers Rares atelier had to reproduce it in under 6 cm² while keeping the lifelike vibrancy of the original. The name comes from the Latin *pavo*, peacock — for the feathers fanning behind the sitter’s hair. Source: JLC Yearbook FIVE, 2012 More Pièces Uniques [**The Reverso à Éclipses by Zep**2011 · Miniature enamel behind a shutter mechanism](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/reverso-a-eclipses-by-zep)[**The Rama Reverso**1949 · Miniature enamel](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/rama-reverso)[**The British Racing Drivers’ Club Reverso**1937 · Enamelled club emblem](https://myreversostory.com/pieces-uniques/british-racing-drivers-club-reverso) Know This Piece? ## Every Reverso has a second side. If you own this watch, have photographed it, or can document its history, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/xu-beihong Summary: Three ink horses, each translated from a square metre of paper to two square centimetres of enamel. A trio built around Xu Beihong (1895–1953), the Chinese… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel “Xu Beihong” Three ink horses, each translated from a square metre of paper to two square centimetres of enamel. **Introduced**2025 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel · miniature painting · guillochage **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 · manual-wound · 42 h reserve **Case**45.6 × 27.4 × 9.73 mm, 18k white gold **Pieces in set**3 A trio built around Xu Beihong (1895–1953), the Chinese painter whose ink-and-wash horses helped define modern Chinese art — and, with the Lunar Year of the Horse arriving in February 2026, a deliberately timed subject. It isn’t the first time Jaeger-LeCoultre has used his work: a different Xu Beihong trio appeared in 2018 as part of a set dedicated to several artists. This version keeps the format — three case-backs, three paintings — in the classic 45.6 × 27.4 mm Grande Taille case. Each back takes roughly 80 hours of miniature enamel painting in the Métiers Rares atelier to shrink a canvas originally over a square metre onto a surface of about two square centimetres; the fronts pair translucent flinqué grand feu enamel with hand-guilloché patterns cut on a traditional hand-operated rose engine. Ref. Q39334B1–B3, 10 pieces of each, roughly US$150,000–153,000 at launch. Sources: [SJX — introduction](https://watchesbysjx.com/2025/10/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-enamel-xu-beihong.html) · [Watch Collecting Lifestyle](https://www.watchcollectinglifestyle.com/home/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-xu-beihong-review) Click any piece to turn it over ### “The Running Horse” Ref. Q39334B3 Xu Beihong, ink on paper A single horse caught mid-gallop, its form suggesting motion beyond the physical. The dial is Evergreen Pine Green grand feu enamel over a 120-line sunray guilloché — pine standing, in Chinese symbolism, for unwavering strength and vitality. ### “Two Horses” Ref. Q39334B2 Xu Beihong, ink on paper One dark horse, one pale, in synchronized motion — a study in the kind of paired opposites classical Chinese thought would read as yin and yang. The dial runs Distant Mountain Blue grand feu enamel over a barleycorn guilloché, the blue standing in for peaks lost in morning mist. ### “The Standing Horse” Ref. Q39334B1 Xu Beihong, ink on paper Stillness charged with held power — a horse at rest but clearly not at ease. The dial pairs a 120-line herringbone guilloché with Crimson Dawn Orange grand feu enamel, echoing the warm light of the original ink landscape at sunrise. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/alfons-mucha Summary: Three of the four panels from Mucha’s “The Seasons” (1896), each framed in hand-engraved gold. A second 2018 trio, distinct from the Seurat/Xu… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel — Alfons Mucha Three of the four panels from Mucha’s “The Seasons” (1896), each framed in hand-engraved gold. **Introduced**2018 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting · guillochage · hand engraving **Edition size**8 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822A/2 **Case**45.5 × 27.4 × 9.7 mm — Summer in white gold, Spring and Autumn in yellow gold **Pieces in set**3 A second 2018 trio, distinct from the Seurat/Xu Beihong/Hokusai set released earlier that year: three of the four panels from Alfons Mucha’s *The Seasons*, his celebrated 1896 series of decorative panels — Winter is the one season left out, for reasons Jaeger-LeCoultre never explained. It wasn’t the manufacture’s first attempt at the set: a complete run of all four seasons appeared in 1996, 25 pieces each, painted by Miklos Merczel, then JLC’s Head Enamel Artist (since retired). This 2018 revival used three different, more junior hands to reinterpret the theme. Each case-back miniature sits inside a frame that is entirely hand-engraved and hand-carved — unusual even by Métiers Rares standards, since the engraving happens after enamelling, working a special chisel around the fired miniature without disturbing it. Reproducing Mucha’s Art Nouveau line at roughly 3 by 2 cm meant working with a far more limited palette than Mucha himself had, while planning ahead for how each oxide colour would shift after firing at 800°C and again during cooling — a minimum of fifteen firings per watch between the base coats, the miniature itself, and six to eight protective top layers. Mucha had already inspired Jaeger-LeCoultre before this trio, in the 1996 "The Seasons" itself, the 1999 "Precious Gemstones", and the 2001 "Clair de Lune". Eight pieces of each reference, boutique-only, roughly €95,500 for the set of three at launch. Sources: [James Magazine](https://www.jamesmagazine.it/art/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-alfons-mucha/) · [GMT Post](https://www.gmtpost.com/post/the-new-jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-alfons-mucha) · [Watch I Love](https://watchilove.com/2018/11/jaeger-lecoultre-presents-the-new-reverso-tribute-enamel-alfons-mucha/) · [Deployant — hands-on](https://deployant.com/important-watches-jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-alfons-mucha/) Click any piece to turn it over ### “Summer” Ref. Q39334M1 Alfons Mucha, 1896, from “The Seasons” · white gold White gold case with a blue Grand Feu enamel front dial — the season rendered in the same deep, saturated colour family as a summer sky, guillochéd in sunburst under the transparent enamel to harmonise with the miniature on the reverse. ### “Spring” Ref. Q39314M2 Alfons Mucha, 1896, from “The Seasons” · yellow gold Mucha personifies the season as a young blonde woman in a translucent white dress, standing beneath a flowering tree. The flowing lines of the dress fought the enamel’s protective top layers, which flatten spontaneity in a drawing this fluid — getting them right took extensive research and repeated trials, as did the small details: the white flowers in her hair, the birds, the densely detailed background. Over 100 hours total for the caseback: roughly 70 of enamel painting, 30 of hand engraving for the sculpted frame around the miniature. ### “Autumn” Ref. Q39314M3 Alfons Mucha, 1896, from “The Seasons” · yellow gold The same sunburst guilloché as Spring, under a different-coloured translucent lacquer. Mucha’s Autumn is a playful, bountiful figure set among a rich tapestry of autumnal plants, fruit and flowers, a wreath of chrysanthemums in her long auburn hair, gathering grapes from an abundant vine — a fairly direct metaphor for the season’s harvest. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-101-les-folies Summary: Time made small enough to become jewellery, and jewellery built to keep time. Officially named “Les Folies,” this is the Reverso pushed as far into… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso 101 “Les Folies” Time made small enough to become jewellery, and jewellery built to keep time. **Introduced**c.1990–early 2000s **Crafts**Gem-setting around the calibre 101 movement, integrated bracelets **Edition size**10 confirmed references, quantities per reference not documented **Movement**Calibre 101 **Case**11 × 27.5 mm, 18k gold, various colours **Pieces in set**10 Officially named “Les Folies,” this is the Reverso pushed as far into jewellery as Jaeger-LeCoultre has ever taken it: a genuine reversible case, small enough to sit on the wrist as a bracelet rather than a watch, built entirely around the calibre 101 — the movement JLC developed in 1929 and which still holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest mechanical watch movement ever made. At 14 × 4.85 × 3.4 mm and roughly one gram, its 98 parts are assembled by hand by only two watchmakers at the manufacture today, a job that takes a full month per movement; the same calibre, in the same era, powered the diamond-set watch Queen Elizabeth II wore to her own coronation. What sets Les Folies apart from an ordinary Calibre 101 wristwatch is that the idea of rotation doesn’t stop at the case: individual gem-set links of the bracelet itself also swivel through 360°, so the whole object can be reconfigured between a plain-faced bracelet and a fully jewelled one. Across the range, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own catalogue cites 723 diamonds available across the various settings. Ten references are confirmed so far, spanning yellow, pink and white gold, integrated gem-set bracelets and black leather straps, plain diamond-set versions, ruby and emerald combinations, and one fully multi-gem “rainbow” bracelet mixing sapphires, rubies, emeralds and diamonds together. Other expressions of the same calibre 101 movement — a larger platinum “Grande Reverso 101,” a five-piece white gold Art Déco version, and even a Reverso built as a ring rather than a wristwatch — are catalogued separately in the Limited Editions and Pièces Uniques sections of this archive, since they don’t share the integrated swivelling-bracelet concept that defines Les Folies specifically. Click any piece to turn it over ### Yellow gold, diamonds and emeralds Ref. 280.197.702 (M) Calibre 101 Yellow gold set with diamonds and emeralds, on a matching yellow gold bracelet also set with diamonds and emeralds. ### Yellow gold, diamonds only Ref. 280.12.01 (M) Calibre 101 Yellow gold set with diamonds, on a matching yellow gold bracelet also set with diamonds — the yellow gold counterpart to the plain pink and white gold diamond-only references elsewhere in this range. ### White gold, fully pavé diamonds, black leather strap Calibre 101 White gold entirely set with diamonds, but on a black leather strap rather than an integrated gem-set bracelet — unlike most of the range, which pairs its gem-setting with a matching metal bracelet. Reference and precise diamond count not yet confirmed. ### White gold, decorated with diamonds, black leather strap Calibre 101 White gold with a partial rather than fully pavé diamond setting, also on a black leather strap — a more restrained sibling to the fully paved white gold strap version above. Reference not yet confirmed. ### White gold, diamonds and emeralds Calibre 101 White gold set with diamonds and emeralds — the white gold counterpart to the yellow gold diamonds-and-emeralds reference above. Reference not yet confirmed. ### Pink gold, diamonds only Ref. 280.292.702 (M) Calibre 101 The simplest expression in the range: 18k pink gold set with diamonds throughout, on a matching pink gold bracelet also set with diamonds — no coloured stones, letting the case’s own rotation and the bracelet’s articulated links carry the design. ### Pink gold, diamonds and rubies Ref. 280.245.702 (M) Calibre 101 Pink gold set with diamonds and rubies, paired with a crocodile strap rather than an integrated bracelet — the strap’s pink gold buckle is itself set with diamonds, carrying the gem-setting through to the clasp. ### White gold, fully diamond-set Ref. 280.392.702 (M) · also cited as 280.3.70 Calibre 101 White gold, entirely set with diamonds — by one auction house’s count, 236 stones — on a matching white gold bracelet also fully diamond-set. Sold for roughly US$87,500 when new; the case and bracelet elements alike rotate through 360°. ### White gold, diamonds and rubies Ref. 280.945.702G (M) Calibre 101 The white gold counterpart to the pink gold diamonds-and-rubies piece above: a crocodile strap with a white gold, diamond-set buckle, the case itself set with diamonds and rubies together. ### White gold, multi-gem “rainbow” bracelet Ref. 280.330.004 (M) Calibre 101 The most elaborate reference in the range: a white gold case set with diamonds, on a bracelet mixing baguette-cut sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds together — a genuine multi-gem, multi-colour treatment rather than a single accent stone against a diamond field. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-precious-stones Summary: Four gemstone women from 1900, and the one time this whole enamel programme left the wrist entirely. Every other Mucha Reverso in this archive is a… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Montre de Poche “Pierres Précieuses” — Alfons Mucha Four gemstone women from 1900, and the one time this whole enamel programme left the wrist entirely. **Introduced**1999–2000 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel · gem-setting **Edition size**Production quantities not documented **Movement**Calibre 822 (Topaze, Améthyste) / Calibre 823 (Rubis, Emeraude) **Case**18k white or yellow gold, pocket-watch form, set with diamonds and matching gemstone baguettes **Pieces in set**4 Every other Mucha Reverso in this archive is a wristwatch. These four are not — they’re Reverso *Montres de poche*, full pocket watches with the reversible case flipped up on a hinge inside a jewelled cradle, the enamel miniature mounted where a fob watch’s portrait would traditionally sit. The subject is Mucha’s *The Precious Stones*, four 1900 lithographed panels personifying Topaz, Amethyst, Ruby and Emerald as women dressed and lit to match each gem’s colour. Jaeger-LeCoultre made all four in enamel: Topaze and Améthyste first in 1999, Rubis and Emeraude following in 2000 on an updated calibre. Every case is set with diamonds and baguette-cut stones matching its gem, and the cradle itself can be personalised with an enamelled monogram in a colour keyed to the watch’s palette. This places the series squarely in the earliest years of Miklos Merczel’s enamel workshop — after the 1996 Four Seasons, in the same run of years as Clair de Lune and Étoile du Matin — though unlike those wrist pieces, exact production numbers for Pierres Précieuses have not surfaced in any source we’ve found; we’re leaving that figure blank rather than borrowing the Four Seasons’ 25-piece run without evidence. Click any piece to turn it over ### “Topaze” After Alfons Mucha, The Precious Stones: Topaz, 1900 The dreamiest of the four figures, per the Mucha Foundation’s own description of the original — auburn hair, a circular mosaic halo, and an ochre-and-turquoise palette that Jaeger-LeCoultre’s enamellers had to rebuild almost from scratch, since the original lithograph’s colours had faded well past their original intensity by the 1990s. Miklos Merczel: “the difficulty lay in finding shades which corresponded to the variations of topazes and amethysts chosen by Mucha, particularly as the original colours had lost much of their intensity and we had to accentuate them in order to restore their full radiance and depth.” ### “Améthyste” After Alfons Mucha, The Precious Stones: Amethyst, 1900 A field of violet and mauve tones built to track the natural colour range of amethyst itself, paired with Topaze as the first half of the set in 1999. The two were explicitly conceived together — JLC’s own launch copy calls them “odes to women and to lovers of horological beauty,” each cradle’s monogram enamelled in a shade pulled from its own watch’s palette. ### “Rubis” After Alfons Mucha, The Precious Stones: Ruby, 1900 Arrived a year after Topaze and Améthyste, on the newer calibre 823 rather than 822. Miklos Merczel again: “we had to find the palette of shades inherent to each stone and choose those which correspond to the choices made by Mucha … we accentuated the various hues of ruby and emerald to enable them to glow with their full radiance and express their symbolism.” White gold case set with brilliant and baguette-cut diamonds. ### “Emeraude” After Alfons Mucha, The Precious Stones: Emerald, 1900 The fourth and final panel of the set, paired with Rubis on the same calibre 823 platform in 2000 — completing all four Precious Stones in enamel, a full decade before Mucha next returned to the Reverso in 2018. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-etoile-clairdelune Summary: Morning star and moonlight, both sides of the case enamelled — and, by the enameller’s own account, where his Reverso work began. A pairing of two Mucha… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso “Étoile du Matin et Clair de Lune” — Alfons Mucha Morning star and moonlight, both sides of the case enamelled — and, by the enameller’s own account, where his Reverso work began. **Introduced**1996 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel dial and case-back, Miklos Merczel **Edition size**25 sets of 2, in a wooden presentation box **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**26 × 42 mm, 18k yellow gold **Pieces in set**2 A pairing of two Mucha allegories — *L’Étoile du Matin (The Morning Star) and *Clair de Lune* (Moonlight, 1902) — sold together in a limited run of 25 sets, each delivered in its own wooden presentation box. Christie’s has catalogued the same pairing in English as “The Moon and the Stars,” dating it to circa 1996 — the same year as JLC’s better-known Four Seasons set, making 1996 an unusually productive first year for Miklos Merczel’s enamel atelier rather than a single release. Unlike the later Aurore/Crépuscule pairing, where only the case-back carries the enamel miniature and the dial stays a plain printed white, both faces of these two watches are enamelled: dial and case-back alike, in grand feu. Merczel himself has said Clair de Lune was in fact his very first enamelled Reverso model — “I started enamelling the backgrounds of the Reverso, and my first model was Mucha’s ‘Clair de Lune’” — which would put it right at the start of the same year as the Four Seasons, rather than clearly before or after it. One auction house catalogued a single example of Clair de Lune as a run of 24 rather than 25; we’ve gone with the 25-set figure since it comes directly from Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own launch brochure and is corroborated by Christie’s cataloguing of the pair.* Click any piece to turn it over ### “L’Étoile du Matin” (The Morning Star) Ref. 276 14 01 (M) After Alfons Mucha A figure haloed in radiating light, one arm raised to shield or greet the dawn — grand feu enamel on both the case-back miniature and the dial itself, rather than the case-back alone. Manual calibre 822; crocodile strap with an 18k yellow gold folding buckle. ### “Clair de Lune” (Moonlight) Ref. 276 14 02 (M) After Alfons Mucha, 1902 Mucha’s 1902 allegory of the moon, read by contemporary auction cataloguing as unusually sensual for the artist — a red-haired figure wrapped in green beneath a crescent moon on a deep blue ground. By Miklos Merczel’s own account, this was the design that started his entire enamelled-Reverso practice, before the Four Seasons, before Aurore and Crépuscule, before any of it. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-aurore-crepuscule Summary: Dawn and dusk, painted in 1899, put back on the wrist for the turn of the following century. A pair rather than a trio or a set of four: two Grande Taille… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso “Aurore et Crépuscule” — Alfons Mucha, 1999 Dawn and dusk, painted in 1899, put back on the wrist for the turn of the following century. **Introduced**1999 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting, Miklos Merczel **Edition size**25 sets of 2 (50 watches total) **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**42 × 26 mm, 18k yellow gold **Pieces in set**2 A pair rather than a trio or a set of four: two Grande Taille Reversos built around Alfons Mucha’s 1899 panels *Aurore* (Dawn) and *Crépuscule* (Dusk), painted by Mucha himself right at the turn of the previous century. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own launch material draws the parallel directly: one figure covers her body at nightfall, the other hesitates to disrobe as a new day breaks — read at the time as mankind’s uncertainty facing an unknown future, and picked up again by Miklos Merczel’s atelier for the turn of the millennium a hundred years later. The gold case-back is sandwiched between coats of white enamel first, so it won’t warp under the 850°C firing; the miniature is then built up in layers with a brush tapered to a single hair, each layer fired separately, with the artist having to predict how every colour will shift once it comes out of the kiln, intensifying the palette layer by layer until the final image reads true. Twenty-five sets of two were made, sold together rather than separately, in 18k yellow gold. Click any piece to turn it over ### “Aurore” (Dawn) Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’952’322) After Alfons Mucha, 1899 The hesitant counterpart to Crépuscule: a figure caught at the moment of a new day breaking, read by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own material as the more hopeful half of the pair. White enamel dial with subsidiary seconds at six; manual calibre 822; black leather strap with an 18k yellow gold deployant clasp. ### “Crépuscule” (Dusk) Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’952’325) After Alfons Mucha, 1899 Mucha’s own words for the painting, per Jaeger-LeCoultre’s launch material: “the shivering form of this woman covering herself at the close of the day illustrates mankind’s fears and hesitations in the face of an unknown future.” Same case, dial, and movement specification as Aurore — the two were conceived and sold as a single dawn/dusk statement rather than as two independent watches. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-four-seasons-1996 Summary: The set that started it all: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first enamelled Reverso, and the only Reversos ever made with true enamel dials. Not to be confused with the… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso “Four Seasons” — Alfons Mucha, 1996 The set that started it all: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first enamelled Reverso, and the only Reversos ever made with true enamel dials. **Introduced**1996 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting **Edition size**25 sets of 4 (100 watches total) **Movement**Calibre 822 · manual-wound **Case**28 × 42 × 11 mm, 18k yellow gold **Pieces in set**4 Not to be confused with the three-piece Mucha set from 2018 elsewhere in this archive — this is the original, and the watch that began Jaeger-LeCoultre’s modern enamel programme entirely. In 1991 Miklos Merczel, a Hungarian-trained watchmaker who had moved through Cartier’s complications department before joining LeCoultre, spotted an antique enamelled pocket watch at the Basel Fair. Self-taught from there, he earned the title of Master Enameller in 1995, and in 1996 unveiled his first enamelled Reverso set: four watches after Alfons Mucha’s *The Seasons*, one of the most recognisable Art Nouveau images of the 1890s. Each case-back carries a painted enamel portrait of a woman personifying her season; the dials are white enamel with painted Arabic numerals, a blue minute track, and blued steel épée hands — the only Reversos, before or since, built with a genuinely enamelled dial rather than a lacquered or guilloché one. Twenty-five sets of four were made, all in 18k yellow gold, and sold as complete sets rather than individually — which makes a full matching set, rather than a single watch, the rare thing to find today. Sources: [Antiquorum — complete set](https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/jaeger-lecoultre-lot-164-11) · [Sotheby’s — Spring](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference-2) · [Sotheby’s — Summer](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference) · [Sotheby’s — Autumn](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference-3) · [Sotheby’s — Winter](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference-4) Click any piece to turn it over ### “Spring” Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’000) After Alfons Mucha, 1896 A fair maiden stands under blossoming trees, celebrating rebirth with a lyre in hand; bright flowers and green leaves surround her, and her translucent white dress reads as purity — spring cast as the innocent opening act of the year. ### “Summer” Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’003) After Alfons Mucha, 1896 A woman rests against a blossoming poppy field, dipping her feet into a cool lake, a red flower crown against fiery hair and a deep blue sky behind her — heat and abundance held in the same image. ### “Autumn” Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’002) After Alfons Mucha, 1896 A crimson-haired figure gathers grapes from a laden vine, a chrysanthemum wreath in her hair, set against a tangerine harvest landscape — the same imagery Jaeger-LeCoultre would echo again in its 2018 Mucha revival. ### “Winter” Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’001) After Alfons Mucha, 1896 A bashful figure in a green cape cradles a small bird against the cold, snow covering the ground around her — winter read not as an ending but as patience, life held in reserve until spring returns. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/caspar-david-friedrich Summary: An 8-day movement, two Romantic seascapes, and a technique Jaeger-LeCoultre had never used before. A small 2002 follow-on to the Mucha and… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso “Émail Friedrich” — Caspar David Friedrich An 8-day movement, two Romantic seascapes, and a technique Jaeger-LeCoultre had never used before. **Introduced**2002 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel over hand-guilloché, opaline finish **Edition size**5 pieces per painting (10 watches total) **Movement**Calibre 875 · manual-wound · 8-day power reserve **Case**29 × 46.5 mm, 18k yellow gold **Pieces in set**2 A small 2002 follow-on to the Mucha and Warhol/Lichtenstein enamel sets Miklos Merczel’s atelier had already produced — this time built around two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, the German Romantic landscape painter known for solitary figures set against mist, night sky, or ruin. Merczel has described this set as the first time the atelier laid an opaline finish over a guilloché base rather than painting straight onto plain white enamel, giving the dial a faint pearlescent translucency the earlier Mucha and artist sets didn’t have. The watch itself is unusually serious hardware to carry a miniature painting: calibre 875 is a manual-wound movement with an 8-day power reserve, small seconds, and a date — a genuine grande complication base rather than the simpler dial/time-only calibres used for most of the enamel programme. Five pieces of each painting, yellow gold, 10 watches in total. Sources: [WatchProSite — overview](https://www.watchprosite.com/digest/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-caspar-friedrich-overview/) · [Phillips — “Mondaufgang am Meer”](https://www.phillips.com/detail/jaegerlecoultre/197718) · [Worldtempus — Merczel interview](https://en.worldtempus.com/article/watches/trends-and-style/jaeger-lecoultre-a-van-gogh-for-the-wrist-22349.html) Click any piece to turn it over ### “Mondaufgang am Meer” (Moonrise by the Sea) Ref. 246.1.15, Q3761409 After Caspar David Friedrich, 1822 Three silhouetted figures look out to sea as the moon rises through a band of violet cloud — one of Friedrich’s best-known Romantic seascapes, its quiet horizon line reproduced in a case-back roughly 3 cm across, limited to 5 pieces. ### “Die Lebensstufen” (The Stages of Life) Ref. 246.1.15, Q3761408 After Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835 Friedrich’s late allegory of ageing: figures and ships at different distances from the shore, read together as stages of a single life — one of his most personal, and most quietly melancholic, compositions. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/arte-portuguesa Summary: Five Portuguese artists, twelve years, one watch each turned into a private commission. Launched in 2000 by Pedro Torres, an art and watch collector who ran… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso / Arte Portuguesa Five Portuguese artists, twelve years, one watch each turned into a private commission. **Introduced**2000–2012 **Crafts**Enamel, engraving, hand-painted miniature — technique varies by artist **Edition size**20–40 pieces per edition (see individual pieces) **Movement**Calibre 822 / 822/2, manual-wound **Case**Grande Taille / Grande Reverso 976, various metals **Pieces in set**5 Launched in 2000 by Pedro Torres, an art and watch collector who ran Torres Distribuição — Jaeger-LeCoultre’s distributor in Portugal — Reverso/Arte Portuguesa invited major Portuguese artists to use the Reverso’s case-back as a canvas for their own interpretation of time. Each edition paired a numbered, limited Reverso with a silkscreen print of the artwork, hand-signed by the artist; the case-back additionally carries the edition number, movement number, and the artist’s name. Editions ran from 20 to 40 pieces (plus one artist’s proof, given to the artist). Júlio Pomar opened the series in 2000 and returned in a later year with a sculptural piece for the round Master Control line — counted separately from the Reverso editions below — which is generally why Julião Sarmento’s 2012 pair is referred to as the “sixth edition” despite being only the fifth Reverso in the set. Sources: [MasterHorologer — Sarmento, 6th edition](https://masterhorologer.com/2012/06/06/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-arte-portuguesa-sixth-edition-in-association-with-portuguese-artist-juliao-sarmento/) · [Espiral do Tempo — 20 years retrospective](https://espiraldotempo.com/icones-20-anos-depois-recordar-a-colecao-reverso-arte-portuguesa/) · [Espiral do Tempo — a reader’s story](https://espiraldotempo.com/um-leitor-uma-historia-reverso-arte-portuguesa-no-pulso/) · [Estação Chronographica, May 2012](https://estacaochronographica.blogspot.com/2012/05/chegado-ao-mercado-jaeger-lecoultre_30.html) Click any piece to turn it over ### Júlio Pomar — the hare and the tortoise 2000 · Reverso Date, white gold Pomar, one of 20th-century Portugal’s major painters and known for recurring animal imagery, chose Aesop’s fable of the hare and the tortoise to represent time — “the hare seems to be keeping the beat, and the tortoise asks why it’s making so much noise,” in his own words. Base model: Reverso Date in white gold, with a pointer date and an off-centre day window. Example No. 1 was auctioned for charity through Casa do Artista, opening at roughly 3,500 contos and closing at 5,150 (about €25,000). ### Manuel Cargaleiro — cosmos and azulejo 2001 · Reverso Or Déco, white gold Cargaleiro, a painter, printmaker and ceramicist, called his own style “lyrical abstraction.” His engraved composition pairs a spiral — his personal symbol for eternal return — with three red spheres standing for the cosmos, over an azulejo-tile pattern referencing Portugal’s best-known decorative art form; the blue is the sea, the palette a nod to the flag of Geneva. Base model: Reverso Or Déco, white gold case, floral numerals. No. 1 sold for €20,500 at a Cabral Moncada charity auction benefiting pianist Maria João Pires’s Centro para o Estudo das Artes de Belgais; retail was €18,750. ### Paula Rego — woman and pelican Ref. 270.2.62 2002 · Grande Taille, rose gold Rego — later recognised as the most internationally significant Portuguese painter of her generation — chose an image she had returned to across her career: a woman kissing a pelican, a bird said to feed its young from its own body, in an embrace she describes as reading like Leda and the Swan. In her words, the image carries “some complicity on the part of the woman, otherwise she would have fled,” and doubles as a study of who dominates whom — “eternal time,” repeating endlessly. Base model: Reverso Grande Taille in rose gold, signature on the dial. 40 pieces at €21,900 including the print. ### José de Guimarães — the serpent 2003 · Reverso Gran’Sport, steel The first Arte Portuguesa edition in steel rather than gold, the first on a Gran’Sport case, the first with a strap designed specifically for it, and the first with the artist’s signature engraved directly on the case. Guimarães used a serpent — a symbol of eternity in some African traditions he draws on — with one green eye and one red eye, the colours of the Portuguese flag, over a mottled white ground reproducing the relief texture of his original drawing. 40 pieces at €9,750, the most accessible edition in the series. ### Julião Sarmento — the female form 2012 · Grande Reverso 976, rose gold or steel The sixth Arte Portuguesa commission overall (fifth in a Reverso case, following Pomar’s separate Master Control sculpture piece), issued as two parallel editions: 20 in rose gold with a black dial and a round small-seconds sub-dial (€17,900), 30 in steel with a rectangular small-seconds sub-dial (€9,900). Sarmento’s engraved female silhouette — the recurring subject of his career — is paired with a silkscreen print in dark yellow for the gold version and black-and-white for the steel. “It has to do with the space a woman occupies, and with an indeterminate time in which she simply exists — not a fleeting time, an eternal one,” Sarmento has said of the theme. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/hodler-tribute Summary: Three Swiss lake landscapes, for the 100th anniversary of the painter’s death. Marking the centenary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death in 1918 — one of… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel — Ferdinand Hodler Three Swiss lake landscapes, for the 100th anniversary of the painter’s death. **Introduced**2018 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting · hand-guilloché and engraved dial **Edition size**8 pieces per reference (24 watches total) **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.5 × 27.4 mm, 18k white gold **Pieces in set**3 Marking the centenary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death in 1918 — one of Switzerland’s most significant 19th-century painters, known for a style he called “parallelism,” a symbolist take on landscape built around repetition and symmetry — Jaeger-LeCoultre reproduced three of his Swiss lake paintings in enamel across a purpose-built white gold case. Each dial is finished with a fine hand-guilloché and engraved basket-weave pattern under translucent enamel, its colour chosen to echo the mood of the landscape on the case-back; each miniature took an enameller more than fifty hours to complete, reproducing a canvas many times the size of the finished 3 cm² case-back. Eight pieces of each subject, twenty-four watches in total, sold exclusively through Jaeger-LeCoultre boutiques. Click any piece to turn it over ### “Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc in Morning Light” Ref. Q39334H1 After Ferdinand Hodler The Alps reflected in still water at first light — a mirror effect Hodler returned to often — rendered under a light sky-blue translucent enamel chosen to match the softness of the blue and white shades in the original. ### “Lake Thun with Symmetric Reflections, Painted Before Sunrise” Ref. Q39334H2 After Ferdinand Hodler, 1904 A pine-green enamel dial, chosen after the rocks at the base of the original painting suggested the right shade — the water’s transparency lets the lakebed show through, a detail the enameller had to carry over from canvas to case-back. ### “Thunersee mit symmetrischer Spiegelung” (Lake Thun with Symmetric Mirroring) Ref. Q39334H3 After Ferdinand Hodler, 1909 Painted between Thun and Interlaken, this is generally reckoned the most sought-after of the three subjects. A calm blue enamel dial mirrors the sky reflected across Hodler’s lake. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/famous-artists Summary: The trio that started it all — three painting techniques, none of them ever attempted in enamel miniature at Jaeger-LeCoultre before. Before Hidden… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel — Famous Artists The trio that started it all — three painting techniques, none of them ever attempted in enamel miniature at Jaeger-LeCoultre before. **Introduced**2018 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting · guillochage **Edition size**8 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 mm, white gold **Pieces in set**3 Before Hidden Treasures, before Hokusai’s Waterfalls, before Shahnameh or Xu Beihong’s horses came back in 2025 — there was this: the first Reverso trio built explicitly around reproducing three painting techniques never before attempted in enamel miniature at the manufacture. Pointillism, Chinese ink wash, and Japanese woodblock printing, each picked through one representative master and one representative work: Georges Seurat, Xu Beihong, and Katsushika Hokusai. Each dial is hand-guillochéd in a pattern that echoes its case-back — lozenges for Seurat, lengthwise geometric lines for Xu Beihong, small waves for Hokusai — under translucent Grand Feu enamel colour-matched to the painting behind it. Eight pieces of each, white gold, boutique-only. Sources: [GMT Post](https://www.gmtpost.com/post/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel) · [Swisswatches Magazine](https://swisswatches-magazine.com/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-models/) Click any piece to turn it over ### Georges Seurat — “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” Ref. Q39334P1 Georges Seurat, 1884–1886 Pointillism had never been attempted in enamel at the manufacture, so the enameller had to invent the tools for it — including an extremely fine, frequently-replaced brush. The original painting is nearly 2 by 3 metres and took Seurat two years and over 60 preparatory sketches; here it’s reduced to about 3 cm², painted in a deliberately darker shade than the source to compensate for the way the enamel’s protective top layers dull colour on firing. Roughly 70 hours of work, not counting the research to find the right colour balance. The dial’s lozenge guilloché sits under deep green translucent enamel. ### Xu Beihong — Two Horses Ref. Q39334C1 Xu Beihong A different Xu Beihong from the pair added to the archive in 2025: this one draws two horses out of an original painting over 5 metres wide, showing ten horses galloping through a landscape. Ink wash painting is built on movement and near-monochrome restraint, both of which fight against enamel’s glassy protective layers — the artisan had to find a way to keep the horses’ energy legible, down to individual strands of mane, while working in a palette close to black and white. The dial’s lengthwise guilloché sits under an opalescent ivory enamel meant to read like mother-of-pearl. ### Katsushika Hokusai — “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” Ref. Q39334T1 Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831 The same watch now also catalogued on the Hokusai Waterfalls series page — it carries the same Q39334T-prefix reference scheme as that later waterfall cycle, but it actually launched here, in 2018, as the third leg of this original artists’ trio, well before the waterfalls series existed. The dial’s small-wave guilloché sits under an ocean-deep blue enamel that has to read as calm sky and turbulent water in the same piece — by the enameller’s own account, the hardest of the three commissions, combining the fine detail of the Seurat with the compositional restraint of the Xu Beihong. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/chinese-zodiac Summary: A different animal each Lunar New Year, engraved into a background it was enamelled onto first. An ongoing run of Lunar New Year editions, one animal at a… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel — Chinese Zodiac A different animal each Lunar New Year, engraved into a background it was enamelled onto first. **Introduced**2022– **Crafts**Grand feu enamel · modelled engraving **Edition size**10 pieces (Horse) · made-to-order (Tiger, Dragon, Snake) **Movement**Calibre 822 / 822A/2 · manual-wound · 42 h reserve **Case**45.5–45.6 × 27.4 × 9.73 mm, 18k pink gold **Pieces in set**4 An ongoing run of Lunar New Year editions, one animal at a time — Tiger (2022), Dragon (2023), Snake (2024, for the 2025 New Year), and Horse (2025, for the 2026 New Year). All four share the same unusual sequence: the case-back is painted with black enamel first, leaving the animal’s silhouette bare, then fired and polished to a glassy finish before a master engraver works the reserved area in low relief using modelled engraving — roughly 55 to 80 hours per watch, entirely by hand, on a surface that can’t be repaired if the enamel chips. Every piece pairs the engraved back with a matching black grand feu enamel dial, so the animal is the only thing on the watch that isn’t glass-smooth. Sources: [SJX — Tiger](https://watchesbysjx.com/2022/01/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-tiger.html) · [SJX — Dragon](https://watchesbysjx.com/2023/12/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-dragon.html) · [JLC Press — Snake](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/presenting-the-reverso-tribute-enamel-snake/) · [JLC Press — Horse](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/introducing-the-reverso-tribute-enamel-horse/) Click any piece to turn it over ### “Tiger” Ref. Q39324K1 2022 · Year of the Tiger A first for Jaeger-LeCoultre in recent memory: figurative engraving combined with enamel on the same surface. The tiger leaps from black clouds, its stripes picked out afterward in black lacquer; 55 hours of engraving on a caseback already coated in fired enamel. Made to order rather than numbered, roughly €90,000 before tax at launch. ### “Dragon” Ref. Q39324D1 2023 · Year of the Wood Dragon A dragon coiled in clouds against the same stark black ground, its scales finished in black rhodium once the engraving is complete. Ten gravers, up to 80 hours of work — longer than the Tiger a year earlier. Made to order, roughly US$107,000 before tax at launch. ### “Snake” Ref. Q39324D2 2024 · Year of the Snake A snake emerging from a wreath of golden clouds, its scales hand-drawn in black rhodium against sandblasted cloud texture for contrast. Ten chisels, 80 hours of modelled engraving on the pre-enamelled back; getting the black grand feu right took five or six enamel layers and 24 hours of firing and cooling alone — 16 for the back, 8 for the dial — before half a day of polishing. Made to order, presented for the 2025 Lunar New Year. ### “Horse” Ref. Q39324D3 2025 · Year of the Horse The fourth in the series, and the first limited to a fixed edition of 10 rather than made to order. A horse’s head and forelegs appear to leap from sand-blasted golden clouds, mane and muzzle drawn in black rhodium for contrast; the engraver used ten differently sized chisels and modelled engraving — sculpting for depth rather than flat outline — across 80 hours of work on the enamelled back. Presented ahead of the Lunar New Year at Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Dream Shaper exhibition in Shanghai, September 2025. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/hidden-treasures Summary: Three paintings that were all lost and found again. For the Reverso’s 90th anniversary, the Métiers Rares atelier reproduced three paintings chosen not only… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel “Hidden Treasures” Three paintings that were all lost and found again. **Introduced**2021 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel · miniature painting · guillochage **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 mm, white gold **Pieces in set**3 For the Reverso’s 90th anniversary, the Métiers Rares atelier reproduced three paintings chosen not only for their beauty but for their provenance: each had vanished for decades and was assumed lost forever. The artists were picked because all three were active in the era that produced the Reverso itself — spanning 19th-century Realism, Post-Impressionism, and the Viennese Secession. Jaeger-LeCoultre approached the museums now holding the works to agree the interpretations and colours. Sources: [Jaeger-LeCoultre](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/news/watchmaking/reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures) · [Hodinkee — the enameller](https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/meet-the-woman-mastering-the-masters-for-jaeger-lecoultre) · [Quill & Pad](https://quillandpad.com/2022/02/05/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures-stories-of-lost-and-found/) · [Revolution](https://revolutionwatch.com/jaeger-lecoutre-introduces-the-reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures-collection/) · [Watchonista](https://www.watchonista.com/articles/closer-look/closer-look-jaeger-lecoultres-new-reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures-collection) Click any piece to turn it over ### Klimt — “Portrait of a Lady” Ref. Q39334K1 Gustav Klimt, 1917 The only known “double” portrait by Klimt, painted over an earlier one — a fact undiscovered until 1996, when art student Claudia Maga spotted that the underlying portrait had been missing since 1912. Klimt had reportedly fallen in love with a young woman who then died suddenly; he painted over her portrait to ease the loss. In the late 1990s the work was stolen days before an exhibition in Italy, and found shortly afterwards by a gardener — stuffed into a crevice in a stone wall under ivy, inside a waterproof bag, in perfect condition. On the watch, a barleycorn guilloché dial in green Grand Feu enamel echoes the painting’s background. ### Van Gogh — “Sunset at Montmajour” Ref. Q39334V1 Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Painted near Arles in 1888 and long dismissed as not being by Van Gogh at all — it spent years in an attic after being declared a fake. It was finally authenticated in 2013, one of very few full-size Van Gogh canvases confirmed in modern times. The dial’s sunray guilloché in Grand Feu enamel plays against the case-back’s reproduction of the artist’s heavy impasto brushwork. ### Courbet — “View of Lake Leman” Ref. Q39334C2 Gustave Courbet, 1876 Painted in the last years of Courbet’s life, in exile in Switzerland on the shore of Lake Geneva — within sight of the valley where the Reverso would be made half a century later. A herringbone guilloché dial in misty grey-blue Grand Feu enamel picks up the painting’s soft, atmospheric palette. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/hokusai Summary: An eight-year cycle: every waterfall Hokusai ever printed. The longest artistic project in the Reverso’s history. It began in 2018 with The Great Wave off… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel — Hokusai An eight-year cycle: every waterfall Hokusai ever printed. **Introduced**2018 – 2026 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature · flinqué guilloché dials **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 × 9.73 mm, white gold **Pieces in set**9 The longest artistic project in the Reverso’s history. It began in 2018 with *The Great Wave off Kanagawa*, then turned to Hokusai’s eight-print series *A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces* — the first time falling water was treated as a subject in ukiyo-e, and one of the earliest uses of the then-new Prussian blue pigment. Jaeger-LeCoultre released them a few at a time across 2021, 2022, 2023 and finally 2026, completing all eight. Each case-back is built from around fourteen layers of enamel fired successively, roughly 100 hours per watch, reproducing a composition at about 2 cm² — including the original Japanese inscriptions at near-microscopic scale. Sources: [Jaeger-LeCoultre — Hokusai](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/eu-en/news/watchmaking/reverso-tribute-enamel-hokusai) · [JLC — Kiyotaki Waterfall Q39334T8](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-tribute/reverso-tribute-enamel-hokusai-kiyotaki-waterfall-q39334t8) · [Hodinkee](https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-hokusai-waterfalls-series) · [Monochrome](https://monochrome-watches.com/introducing-jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-katsushika-hokusai-waterfalls-series-watches-and-wonders-specs-price-pics/) · [WatchProSite guide](https://www.watchprosite.com/digest/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-hokusai-guide-2/) Click any piece to turn it over ### The Great Wave off Kanagawa Ref. Q39334T1 2018 The first Hokusai on a Reverso, and not part of the waterfalls cycle — the most reproduced image in Japanese art, reduced to the size of a case-back. ### Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain, Shimotsuke Ref. Q39334T2 2021 The first of the waterfalls series. “Kirifuri” means falling mist — the print shows tiny figures dwarfed by the cascade, a favourite Hokusai device for scale. ### The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road Ref. Q39334T3 2022 The most abstract print in the series: the water emerges from a near-perfect circle in the rock, said to resemble the head of the Amida Buddha. ### The Waterfall Where Yoshitsune Washed His Horse, Yoshino Ref. Q39334T4 2023 · lozenge guilloché dial A legend rather than a landscape: the warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune washing his horse at the falls in Yamato Province. ### The Waterfall at Ono on the Kisokaidō Road Ref. Q39334T5 2023 · barleycorn guilloché dial A traveller’s view from the old Kisokaidō highway, one of the two great routes between Edo and Kyoto. ### Rōben Waterfall at Ōyama, Sagami Province Ref. Q39334T7 2026 · barleycorn guilloché, walnut-brown enamel Pilgrims purifying themselves beneath the falls at Ōyama — a site of ritual ablution, which Hokusai renders as bodies braced against falling water. ### Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita, Tōkaidō Ref. Q39334T8 2026 · wavy guilloché, emerald enamel Named for the Kannon shrine beside it, on the Tōkaidō — the coastal road immortalised in Hiroshige’s fifty-three stations. ### Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province Ref. Q39334T6 2026 Subject of one of Japan’s best-known filial-piety legends, in which the falls run with sake for a devoted son. ### The Falls at Aoigaoka in the Eastern Capital Ref. Q39331T9 2026 The eighth and final print — and an urban one, a waterfall inside Edo itself, closing a cycle begun eight years earlier. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/monet-venice Summary: Three Monets, each shrunk from a metre wide to 25 × 20 mm. Made for the Homo Faber biennial in Venice. Monet arrived in the city with his wife in autumn… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel “Venice Series” — Monet Three Monets, each shrunk from a metre wide to 25 × 20 mm. **Introduced**2024 **Crafts**Miniature painting · enamelling · guillochage **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 × 9.73 mm, white gold **Pieces in set**3 Made for the Homo Faber biennial in Venice. Monet arrived in the city with his wife in autumn 1908 and at first declared it “too beautiful to paint”; he then chose a dozen sites and painted each repeatedly at different hours to catch the changing light. The challenge here was reducing canvases over 65 × 92 cm onto a surface of 25 × 20 mm, while faking the impasto of the original brushwork so the miniature keeps its depth. The San Giorgio miniature alone took roughly 70 hours. Each dial beneath is hand-guilloché — about eight hours of work — under translucent coloured enamel. Sources: [SJX](https://watchesbysjx.com/2024/09/monets-venice-in-miniature-enamel-by-jaeger-lecoultre.html) · [Fratello](https://www.fratellowatches.com/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel/) · [JLC — San Giorgio Maggiore](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/sa-en/watches/reverso/reverso-tribute/reverso-tribute-enamel-monet-san-giorgio-maggiore-q39334m4) · [JLC — The Grand Canal](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/sa-en/watches/reverso/reverso-tribute/reverso-tribute-enamel-monet-the-grand-canal-q39334m5) · [JLC — The Doge’s Palace](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/sa-en/watches/reverso/reverso-tribute/reverso-tribute-enamel-monet-the-doge-s-palace-q39334m6) Click any piece to turn it over ### San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk Ref. Q39334M4 Claude Monet, 1908 The island opposite St Mark’s Square, painted as the sun set behind it. Monet reduces the buildings almost to silhouette and gives the picture over to light, colour and reflection. The miniaturised reproduction required roughly 70 hours of work. ### The Grand Canal Ref. Q39334M5 Claude Monet, 1908 The view down the Grand Canal past the mooring poles toward Santa Maria della Salute — one of the sites Monet returned to again and again at different hours. ### The Doge’s Palace Ref. Q39334M6 Claude Monet, 1908 The palace seen from the water, its Gothic arcades dissolving into the lagoon’s reflected light. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/turner-venice Summary: Venice again — but fifty years earlier, and through English eyes. A second Venetian series, released for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s participation in the Homo Faber… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel “Turner Series” Venice again — but fifty years earlier, and through English eyes. **Introduced**2025 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel · paillonnage · miniature painting **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 mm, white gold **Pieces in set**4 A second Venetian series, released for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s participation in the Homo Faber Biennale at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on San Giorgio Maggiore. Turner was already 44 when he first reached Venice, his imagination primed by Shakespeare and Byron; he visited in late summer, when humidity softened the outlines of buildings and the lagoon became a mirror. Across his career he produced roughly 150 watercolours and as many as 900 drawings, often at astonishing speed. All four watches use *paillonnage* — strips of silver foil laid beneath the enamel — to give the water a texture and glint before it is painted over. Sources: [JLC — Turner Q39334W4](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-tribute/reverso-tribute-enamel-turner-q39334w4) · [Oracle of Time](https://oracleoftime.com/jaeger-lecoultre-launch-reverso-tribute-enamel-turner-series-for-homo-faber-venice/) · [Mr Watchmaster](https://mrwatchmaster.com/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-turner-series-shines-a-light-on-venice/) · [The Hour Markers](https://www.thehourmarkers.com/articles/jeager-le-coultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-turner) · [Watch Collecting Lifestyle](https://www.watchcollectinglifestyle.com/home/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-turner-series-venice) Click any piece to turn it over ### Venice, the Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore Ref. Q39334W1 J.M.W. Turner, 1834 The site of the Homo Faber exhibition itself, painted by Turner in 1834. The soft green of the water is echoed by both the green alligator strap and the dial on the reverse. ### Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute Ref. Q39334W2 J.M.W. Turner, 1835 Turner frames the city from inside the porch of the Salute, using the architecture as a proscenium arch for the light beyond. ### Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Customhouse Ref. Q39334W3 J.M.W. Turner Three Venetian landmarks compressed into one composition — the Bridge of Sighs, the Doge’s Palace and the Dogana together. ### Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Ref. Q39334W4 J.M.W. Turner, 1840 A darker foreground set against glowing reflected light. When Turner exhibited this 1840 work he paired it with two lines adapted from Byron: “I stood upon a bridge, a palace and a prison on each hand” — a lament for the fallen Venetian Republic. A wavy, lavender-tinted guilloché dial (41 lines, 369 lathe passages) evokes the rippling light on the canals. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/shahnameh Summary: The Persian Book of Kings, in four miniatures. Scenes from the Shahnameh — the 10th-century Persian epic by Ferdowsi, one of the longest poems ever written… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Tribute Enamel “Shahnameh” The Persian Book of Kings, in four miniatures. **Introduced**2025 **Crafts**Grand feu enamel over guilloché gold **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 mm **Pieces in set**4 Scenes from the *Shahnameh* — the 10th-century Persian epic by Ferdowsi, one of the longest poems ever written by a single author, and the foundation of Persian literary identity. Painting it in miniature enamel is a deliberate echo: the Shahnameh’s own manuscript tradition is one of illuminated miniatures, so this is a miniature art form rendered in another miniature art form. Sources: [JLC Press](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/reverso-tribute--enamel-shahnameh/) · [SJX](https://watchesbysjx.com/2025/08/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-shahnameh.html) · [Revolution](https://revolutionwatch.com/a-closer-look-jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-shahnameh-review/) · [The Watch Pages — “Faridun Tests His Sons”](https://www.thewatchpages.com/watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-shahnameh-faridun-tests-his-sons-q39334s2) Click any piece to turn it over ### Siyavush Plays Polo before Afrasiyab Ref. Q39334S1 Ferdowsi, c. 1525–30 (Met folio, attrib. Qasim ibn ‘Ali) The one Shahnameh scene that shows polo directly: the rival Turanian king Afrasiyab challenges the Persian hero Siyavush to a match, and loses. A fitting subject for a Reverso, given the watch’s own origin on the polo field. Vivid blue Grand Feu enamel over a sunray guilloché dial (120 lines, 7 hours of engraving plus 8 of enamelling) echoes the sky in the painting. ### Faridun Tests His Sons Ref. Q39334S2 Ferdowsi, c. 1525–35 (Aga Khan Museum folio, attrib. Aqa Mirak) One of the epic’s central parables: the king Faridun disguises himself as a dragon to test the courage of his three sons before dividing his kingdom between them. Their reactions — flight, recklessness, and judgement — decide their inheritance and set the tragedy in motion. A herringbone guilloché dial (120 lines, 7 hours) in light blue Grand Feu enamel matches the landscape where the sons confront the dragon. ### Saam Comes to Mount Alburz Ref. Q39334S3 Ferdowsi, c. 1535 (Museum für Islamische Kunst folio, attrib. commissioned by Sultan Muhammad) The warrior Saam abandoned his white-haired newborn son Zal on Mount Alburz, believing the boy demonically marked; the mythical bird Simurgh raised the child, and Saam later returned in regret to seek forgiveness and reclaim him. A wavy guilloché dial (32 lines, 7 hours) in translucent green Grand Feu enamel echoes the painting’s palette. ### Rustam Pursues Akvan Ref. Q39334S4 Ferdowsi, c. 1530–35 (Aga Khan Museum folio, attrib. Muzaffar ‘Ali) Rustam — son of Zal, grandson of Saam, the most celebrated champion of Persian folklore — is sent to slay a wild ass threatening the Shah’s horses. As his lasso touches its neck, the animal vanishes, revealing itself as Akvan, a demon in disguise. A lozenge guilloché dial (980 lines, 7 hours) in rich green Grand Feu enamel matches the painting’s vegetation. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/precious-flowers Summary: Three rare crafts at once, on a case-back the size of a stamp. Floral compositions on the Reverso One, notable because each piece combines three separate… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso One “Precious Flowers” Three rare crafts at once, on a case-back the size of a stamp. **Introduced**2021 – 2024 **Crafts**Enamel · hand engraving · gem-setting **Edition size**10 pieces per reference **Movement**Reverso One **Case**White or pink gold **Pieces in set**8 Floral compositions on the Reverso One, notable because each piece combines three separate Métiers Rares disciplines simultaneously — enamelling, hand engraving and gem-setting — rather than showcasing one. The series was extended with further hibiscus designs after the original quartet. Sources: [JLC — Precious Flowers](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/news/watchmaking/reverso-one-precious-flowers) · [JLC — new Precious Flowers](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/news/watchmaking/new-reverso-one-precious-flowers) · [JLC — Sea Green Arums Q3292434](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-one/reverso-one-precious-flowers-q3292434) · [JLC — Purple Arums Q3292435](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-one/reverso-one-precious-flowers-q3292435) · [The Watch Pages — Hibiscus](https://www.thewatchpages.com/watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-one-precious-flowers-hibiscus-enamel-q3292422) · [Watch Collecting Lifestyle](https://www.watchcollectinglifestyle.com/home/jaeger-lecoutlre-reverso-one-precious-flowers-introducing) Click any piece to turn it over ### Blue Arums Ref. Q3293401 Enamel, diamond-set foliage “A symbol of admiration and appreciation.” The blooms are enamelled in graduated shades of blue against a light blue lacquered background, while the foliage is fully diamond-set. The winding crown carries a reverse-set diamond, and grain-set diamonds wrap the case from front to back. ### Sea Green Arums Ref. Q3292434 Enamel, full snow-setting “A symbol of charm and passion.” A fully diamond-set model in sea green — flowers and leaves are enamelled, and the entire background is snow-set, a technique that takes roughly an hour to set just five or six stones. In total the gem-setting on this piece runs to 95 hours, wrapping seamlessly from the case-sides to the bezel. ### Pink Arums Ref. Q3292430 Enamel, 409 diamonds · 2.59 ct Pink gold with a mother-of-pearl dial and a black lacquered case-back for contrast, the blooms enamelled in graduated pink over foliage fully set with 409 diamonds (2.59 ct). Reverse-set diamond on the crown; shiny pink alligator strap. Manual-wound calibre 846, 38-hour power reserve, limited to 10 pieces. ### Purple Arums Ref. Q3292435 Enamel, 626 diamonds · 1.98 ct Purple arums on pink gold, symbolising charm and passion. Flowers and leaves are fully enamelled and the background snow-set with 626 diamonds (1.98 ct) — about 95 hours of gem-setting, wrapping from the case-back around to the bezel. Shiny green alligator strap; manual-wound calibre 846, 38-hour power reserve; 10 pieces. ### White Lilies Ref. Q3293420 Relief engraving, enamel, 335 diamonds · 2.44 ct White lilies — purity, devotion, honour — on a white gold case whose back is relief-engraved: the background metal sculpted away so only the raised floral outline remains, each bloom hand-engraved to replicate petal texture. Leaves are enamelled in a rich blue, stamens in light blue, and the sky-blue background is laid with tissue-fine wafers of mother-of-pearl. 335 grain-set diamonds (2.44 ct) wrap front to back; reverse-set diamond crown. Shiny blue alligator strap; manual-wound calibre 846; 10 pieces. ### Hibiscus Diamonds Ref. Q3292423 Enamel, paillonnage, diamond-setting Blue hibiscus flowers in Grand Feu champlevé enamel — 12 colour trials to get the shade transitions right, roughly 30 hours of enamelling — with stamens accented in 24-carat gold leaf beneath the enamel. Set against snow-set diamonds like the Birds of Paradise piece; the gadroons and lugs carry a further ~523 diamonds (2.02 ct), 20 hours of setting. 150 hours of Métiers Rares craftsmanship in total. ### Hibiscus Enamel Ref. Q3292422 Grand feu enamel, paillonnage, 157 diamonds · 1.25 ct The tropical hibiscus in tones evoking a sun-drenched lagoon — the first Métiers Rares Reverso One to run Grand Feu enamel across the full background, over the convex case-sides and onto the dial. Flowers and leaves use 12 enamel colours across nine layers; paillonnage accents the golden stamens with 24-carat gold leaf beneath the enamel. Gadroons and lugs carry ~157 diamonds (1.25 ct). 50 hours of enamelling plus 22 of gem-setting — 72 hours of Métiers d’Art work. Bespoke shiny blue alligator strap, tinted to match. ### Birds of Paradise Ref. Q3292421 Grand feu champlevé enamel, 331 diamonds · 1.64 ct Freedom and joy, rendered as a bird-of-paradise flower carved from the flat gold case-back before enamelling. Shaped 24-carat gold leaf pieces sit beneath the orange and gold tones; the enameller layers 19 pigments across up to nine layers, roughly 60 hours of work. Snow-set diamonds — nine hand-set sizes, 331 stones (1.64 ct), 65 hours — surround the flower for continuous sparkle. Custom-dyed shiny green alligator strap. 125 hours of Métiers Rares craftsmanship in total. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/precious-colours Summary: The colour-led companion to Precious Flowers. A continuation of the Précieux line opened by Precious Flowers, this time organised around colour and stone… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso One “Precious Colours” The colour-led companion to Precious Flowers. **Introduced**2025 **Crafts**Enamel · gem-setting · lacquer **Edition size**Limited edition **Movement**Reverso One **Case**Gold **Pieces in set**3 A continuation of the Précieux line opened by Precious Flowers, this time organised around colour and stone rather than botanical subject. Sources: [JLC Press](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/reverso-one--precious-colours/) · [Jaeger-LeCoultre](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/news/watchmaking/reverso-one-precious-colours) · [Watch Collecting Lifestyle](https://www.watchcollectinglifestyle.com/home/aeger-lecoultre-reverso-one-precious-flowers-and-reverso-one-precious-colors) Click any piece to turn it over ### Precious Colours — Green — The green colourway of the set. Jaeger-LeCoultre has not issued individual reference numbers for the three Precious Colours variants, so the dash here is intentional rather than unconfirmed. ### Precious Colours — Blue — The blue colourway of the set. As with the others, no individual reference number is issued. ### Precious Colours — Pink — The pink colourway of the set. As with the others, no individual reference number is issued. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/cordonnet-jewellery Summary: The 1930s cord strap, remade in gold and diamonds. A direct descendant of the 1936 Reverso Cordonnet, which was worn on a plain black silk cord in keeping… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso One Cordonnet Jewellery The 1930s cord strap, remade in gold and diamonds. **Introduced**2013–2021 **Crafts**Full pavé diamond setting, twisted rope-style bracelet **Edition size**Limited edition **Movement**Calibre 844 **Case**Duetto or reversible, gold **Pieces in set**2 A direct descendant of the 1936 Reverso Cordonnet, which was worn on a plain black silk cord in keeping with 1930s fashion. The “cordonnet” idea has been reinterpreted more than once since: a 2021 Duetto version pairs a diamond-set cord with mother-of-pearl and onyx dials, while an earlier 2013 piece used a diamond-set twisted rope bracelet — visually closer to a woven cord rendered in gold and stones than to a fabric strap — on a small reversible case. Sources: [Luxe Magazine](https://www.luxe-magazine.com/en/article/11657-jaeger_lecoultre_reverso_one_cordonnet_sparkling_elegance.html) · [Watches News](https://www.watches-news.com/reverso-one-cordonnet-jewellery/) · [Lifetime Magazine](https://lifetimemagazine.co/jaeger-lecoultre-the-reverso-one-duetto-jewellery/) Click any piece to turn it over ### Cordonnet Jewellery Pavé diamond, mother-of-pearl / onyx Mother-of-pearl on the day dial, onyx on the night dial, with the cord itself set in diamonds. No individual reference number is issued for this piece. ### Diamond rope bracelet, lapis lazuli and pavé dials 2013 · white gold, full pavé A small reversible Reverso on a fully diamond-set, twisted rope-style bracelet in white gold — one face a lapis lazuli dial signed simply “Reverso,” the other a fully pavé diamond dial. Promoted by Jaeger-LeCoultre for the 70th Venice International Film Festival (28 August – 7 September 2013, hashtag #JLCliveMOSTRA), shot against Piazza San Marco’s colonnade and the winged lion of St Mark. No reference number has been confirmed for this piece; details here are drawn from the promotional photography alone. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/vallee-merveilles Summary: A new nature series — first stop, Hawaii and Japan. The opening capsule of a new ongoing series dedicated to the natural world, from “the world’s last… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso One “La Vallée des Merveilles” A new nature series — first stop, Hawaii and Japan. **Introduced**2026 **Crafts**Enamel · paillonnage · gem-setting · lacquer **Edition size**20 pieces per reference **Movement**Calibre 846 **Case**Reverso One, pink or white gold **Pieces in set**3 The opening capsule of a new ongoing series dedicated to the natural world, from “the world’s last pristine places to the artistry of the most beautiful gardens”. Announced at Watches and Wonders 2026 under Jaeger-LeCoultre’s “Valley of Inventions” theme, with mother-of-pearl dials and the in-house calibre 846. Sources: [Jaeger-LeCoultre](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/la-vallee-des-merveilles) · [Master Horologer](https://masterhorologer.com/2026/04/29/jaeger-lecoultre-la-vallee-des-merveilles/) · [Mr Watchmaster](https://mrwatchmaster.com/jaeger-lecoultre-introduces-la-vallee-des-merveilles-capsule-collection/) · [WatchPro](https://www.watchpro.com/jaeger-lecoultre-the-vallee-des-merveilles-watch/) · [JLC — Hibiscus Syriacus Q3292424](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-one/reverso-one-hibiscus-syriacus-q3292424) · [JLC — Hibiscus Rosa Q3292425](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-one/reverso-one-hibiscus-rosa-q3292425) · [JLC — The Sakura Q3293426](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/reverso/reverso-one/reverso-one-sakura-q3293426) Click any piece to turn it over ### “Hibiscus Syriacus” Ref. Q3292424 Hawaii · white gold A hummingbird sipping nectar from a blue hibiscus — the first of the two Hawaii-inspired pieces. ### “Hibiscus Rosa” Ref. Q3292425 Hawaii · pink gold A hummingbird poised over a vivid red hibiscus, the emblematic flower of Hawaii. ### The Sakura Ref. Q3293426 Japan The third piece of the capsule, celebrating Japan with cherry blossom. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/secret-necklace Summary: The Reverso taken off the wrist entirely — twice over, decades apart. The Reverso worn as a necklace turns out to have two distinct chapters. In the 1990s… Updated: 2026-09-16 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso Secret Necklace The Reverso taken off the wrist entirely — twice over, decades apart. **Introduced**1990s–2023 **Crafts**Gem-setting · jewellery **Edition size**Unique / very limited **Movement**Calibre 846 (vintage Pendentif) or unspecified (2023 Secret Necklace) **Case**Reverso as pendant **Pieces in set**5 The Reverso worn as a necklace turns out to have two distinct chapters. In the 1990s, Jaeger-LeCoultre catalogued a “Reverso Pendentif”: a cross-shaped 18-carat gold mount, its edges diamond-set, holding a small reversible Reverso watch that pivots on cabochon-sapphire posts within the frame — the ordinary reversible mechanism, simply relocated from the wrist to a pendant on a navy silk cord. Then in 2023, at Watches & Wonders Geneva, the idea returned in a completely different form: a High Jewellery bolo-cord necklace with the Reverso case built into a sliding pendant, presented as the latest step in a genuinely old thread of feminine Reversos worn as brooches, handbag clips, or pendants since shortly after the 1931 original. It follows more specific precedent too: the vintage reference table separately includes a unisex *pendant* Reverso (ref. 205) from the 1930s. The 2023 line has appeared in several colourways: an all-diamond bolo cord with black onyx tassel tips, and beaded versions mixing gemstones — turquoise and coral, or onyx and jade — with pavé gold segments. Sources: [Jaeger-LeCoultre](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/news/watchmaking/reverso-secret-necklace) · [Watches and Wonders](https://www.watchesandwonders.com/en/geneva-2023/brands/jaeger-lecoultre/reverso/reverso-secret-necklace) · [The Hour Markers](https://www.thehourmarkers.com/articles/jaegerlecoultre-takes-the-secret-route-with-the-reverso-secret-necklace) Click any piece to turn it over ### “Reverso Pendentif” — diamond loop Ref. 465.110.001 (M) 18-carat gold, Calibre 846 An earlier, distinct pendant design from the same catalogue family as the ref. 465.1.86 piece cited above: a cross-shaped 18-carat gold mount, its outer edges set with diamonds, holding a small reversible Reverso watch that pivots on two cabochon-sapphire posts within the frame — the miniature reversible mechanism carried over intact, just set inside jewellery rather than worn on the wrist. Worn on a navy silk cord through a diamond-set loop. This reference’s reverse panel (opposite the dial) is left as plain polished gold. ### “Reverso Pendentif” — diamond and sapphire loop Ref. 465.110.005 (M) 18-carat gold, Calibre 846 The sibling reference to the piece above, sharing the same cross-shaped gold and diamond mount, cabochon-sapphire pivot posts, and navy cord — but with the suspension loop set with diamonds and baguette-cut sapphires together rather than diamonds alone, and its reverse panel (opposite the dial) fully pavé-set with diamonds instead of left plain. ### Diamond bolo necklace with black onyx tassels White gold, full pavé diamond, black onyx The most restrained colourway in the line: a fully pavé diamond bolo cord, with no coloured beads strung along its length, converging into a diamond-set Reverso pendant whose case-back carries an Art Deco geometric pattern in black against the diamond field. The cord continues below the pendant as two diamond-set strands, each ending in a long black onyx cylindrical tassel tipped with a diamond. Confirmed via Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own Watches & Wonders 2023 presentation of the Reverso Secret Necklace — likely the base design the turquoise/coral and onyx/jade beaded colourways build from. ### Turquoise and coral bolo necklace Gem-set gold, gemstone beads A bolo-style necklace of two bead strands — round turquoise beads alternating with coral-pink beads and diamond-pavé gold segments — that converge into a pavé gold Reverso pendant with an Art Deco geometric pattern picked out in turquoise, coral, and black across the case-back. Below the pendant, the cord continues as two diamond-set gold strands, each ending in a turquoise cylindrical tassel tip capped with a diamond. No written description or reference is available for this piece; details here are drawn from photographs alone. ### Onyx and jade bolo necklace Gem-set gold, gemstone beads The same bolo-necklace construction as the turquoise and coral version, in a different palette: black onyx beads alternating with jade-green beads and diamond-pavé gold segments, converging into a pavé gold Reverso pendant whose Art Deco case-back pattern is picked out in green and black rather than turquoise and coral. The tassel tips at the end of each cord are jade rather than turquoise. As with the piece above, no written description or reference number is available; details here are drawn from photographs alone. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mrporter-cities Summary: Eight cities, eight engraved skylines — sold only through MR PORTER. The largest set of commemorative Reversos ever made, and a genuinely modern answer to… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Jaeger-LeCoultre × MR PORTER — City Editions Eight cities, eight engraved skylines — sold only through MR PORTER. **Introduced**2021 & 2023 **Crafts**Hand-engraved case-back **Edition size**Limited edition per city **Movement**Calibre 822/2 · 19 jewels · 21,600 vph · 42 h **Case**45.6 × 27.4 × 9.73 mm, stainless steel **Pieces in set**8 The largest set of commemorative Reversos ever made, and a genuinely modern answer to the 1930s engraved case-back. MR PORTER launched the collaboration in 2021 for its own tenth anniversary with five cities — Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris and New York — each carrying a hand-engraved landmark on the reverse. Two years later the series continued with three more: Los Angeles, Singapore and Sydney. All are built on the Reverso Classic Monoface Small Seconds in steel, with a silvered dial, guilloché centre, petrol-blue hands and a Casa Fagliano strap — the same Argentine polo bootmaker who makes the Fagliano edition straps. Sources: [MR PORTER — The Journal](https://www.mrporter.com/en-us/journal/watches/exclusive-watches-reverso-limited-edition-carrera-24684090) · [MR PORTER — limited editions](https://www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/designer/jaeger-lecoultre/luxury-watches/exclusives-and-limited-editions) · [Mr Stateless — Sydney](https://mrstateless.com/introducing-the-jaeger-lecoultre-x-mr-porter-reverso-sydney-city-limited-edition/) · [Time+Tide — Sydney](https://timeandtidewatches.com/jaeger-lecoultre-x-mr-porter-reverso-classic-monoface-small-seconds-sydney-introducing/) · [European Watch — New York Q385852Y](https://www.europeanwatch.com/watch/jaeger-lecoultre-q385852y-reverso-classique-new-york-city-mr-port-49976) · [Watch Advice](https://www.watchadvice.com.au/21990/mr-porter-x-jaeger-lecoultre-watch-collaboration-pays-homage-to-sydney/) Click any piece to turn it over ### New York Ref. Q385852Y 2021 · first wave The Statue of Liberty engraved on the case-back, rendered as a radiating figure. Part of the original five released for MR PORTER’s tenth anniversary. ### London Ref. Q385852L 2021 · first wave Engraved with the Queen Elizabeth II Tower and the Palace of Westminster, as viewed from Westminster Bridge. ### Paris Ref. Q385852P 2021 · first wave Engraved with the Eiffel Tower. ### Milan Ref. Q385852M 2021 · first wave Engraved with the Gothic spires of the Duomo. ### Hong Kong Ref. Q385852H 2021 · first wave Engraved with Hong Kong’s iconic skyline and harbour. ### Los Angeles Ref. Q385852 2023 · second wave The Los Angeles skyline seen from the seafront, against the Santa Monica mountains. ### Singapore Ref. Q385852G 2023 · second wave Marina Bay Sands with its three towers and SkyPark, alongside the ArtScience Museum. ### Sydney Ref. Q385852E 2023 · second wave The harbour, with the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/collectibles-capsule Summary: Every Reverso the maison has quietly resurfaced through its own certified pre-owned programme. Not new watches — old ones, brought back. The Collectibles is… Updated: 2026-10-29 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # The Collectibles — Reverso Across Every Capsule Every Reverso the maison has quietly resurfaced through its own certified pre-owned programme. **Introduced**2023– **Crafts**Sourced, authenticated and restored in-house **Edition size**22 Reverso watches across seven capsules so far, 1931–2003 **Movement**Tavannes 063, 051 · JLC 410, 411, 413, 437, 438, 822, 823, 840, 848, 849R-SQ **Case**Original vintage cases, museum-grade restoration **Pieces in set**22 Not new watches — old ones, brought back. *The Collectibles* is Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own certified pre-owned programme, launched in 2023 for the manufacture’s 190th anniversary: it sources, authenticates and restores museum-grade vintage pieces in a dedicated atelier in the Vallée de Joux, where ten master watchmakers overhaul each watch and missing components are recreated by hand from historical references or pulled from the archives. The programme was built around seventeen emblematic models from the 1920s to the early 1970s — not just the Reverso, but the Duoplan, Memovox, Powermatic, Geomatic and others alongside it — though later capsules have also brought back Reversos from 1972 and from the early 2000s. Seven capsules have been presented so far, travelling from the Vallée de Joux to Los Angeles, Singapore, Paris, New York, London and Hong Kong. Only one — the fifth, in New York — was devoted entirely to the Reverso, with eight watches spanning 1931 to 1937. Every other capsule mixed Reversos in among the other model lines; this page collects all of them, grouped by capsule. Only the fourth capsule (Paris) had no Reverso in its offering, as it was dedicated to the Duoplan model. We will add other Reversos as they are offered in the upcoming capsules around the world. Sources: [Jaeger-LeCoultre — The Collectibles](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/jaeger-lecoultre-collectibles-history) · [JLC Press — Fifth Capsule (New York)](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/introducing-the-collectibles/) · [JLC Press — Sixth Capsule (London)](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/introducing-the-collectibles-vi/) · [Jaeger-LeCoultre — Reverso Platinum Number One (Hong Kong)](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/collectibles/reverso-platinum-number-one-qve21664) · [Jaeger-LeCoultre — Reverso Platinum Number Two (Hong Kong)](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/collectibles/reverso-platinum-number-two-qve21764) · [Jaeger-LeCoultre — Reverso 1931 Cordonnet (Hong Kong)](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/watches/collectibles/reverso-1931-cordonnet-qve90101) · [JLC Press — Third Capsule (Singapore)](https://press.jaeger-lecoultre.com/third-edition-of-the-collectibles-in-singapore/) · [Fratello — Sixth Capsule](https://www.fratellowatches.com/jaeger-lecoultre-presents-its-sixth-the-collectibles-capsule-collection/) · [Fratello — eight curated Reversos (NY)](https://www.fratellowatches.com/eight-curated-jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-watches-from-the-1930s/) · [aBlogtoWatch — New York](https://www.ablogtowatch.com/jaeger-lecoultre-the-collectibles-the-fifth-capsule-collection-present-8-vintage-reverso-watches/) · [Worn & Wound — inside the capsule](https://wornandwound.com/inside-jaeger-lecoultres-reverso-collectibles-capsule-how-the-brand-is-redefining-vintage-watch-curation/) · [Watch Collecting Lifestyle — New York](https://www.watchcollectinglifestyle.com/home/jaeger-lecoultre-collectibles-fifth-capsule-vintage-reverso) · [Hodinkee — Second Capsule (LA)](https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jaeger-lecoultre-introduces-its-second-vintage-capsule-of-the-collectibles) · [Hodinkee — First Capsule (Vallée de Joux)](https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jaeger-lecoultre-raids-its-archives-for-a-new-vintage-watch-collection) Click any piece to turn it over **Capsule I — Vallée de Joux**January 2023 · the programme’s launch ### Reverso Small Seconds Ref. QV020101 1933 · Staybrite steel · calibre 410 A Staybrite steel example from 1933 — 90 years old at the time of sale — with a lacquered toffee-brown dial still perfectly intact. Colour on a Reverso dial was a deliberate provocation in its day: LeCoultre offered blue, red and brown dials on request even as the rest of the industry stayed with traditional silver, marketing black and colour alike as "the dial of the future." This particular dial is signed "Jaeger Fab Suisse." Powered by the rectangular manual-winding LeCoultre calibre 410, on a new dark brown calfskin strap. **Capsule II — Los Angeles**June 2023 ### Reverso Central Seconds Ref. QV020102 1930s · calibre 437 An uncommon vintage Reverso with a black dial and central seconds — far less common than the two-hand or subsidiary-seconds versions from the same decade, and rarer still with a luminous black dial. Dates to the 1930s and runs the calibre 437. Matthieu Sauret, the programme’s curator, has described pieces like this as a "travelling museum watch." **Capsule III — Singapore**October 2024 · 10 pieces, first Asia capsule ### Reverso Small Seconds Ref. QV020100 1930s · men’s A men’s Reverso with the subsidiary-seconds layout at six o’clock that defined the model through the 1930s, shown alongside the ladies’ 1934 piece below as the capsule’s two Reverso entries in a ten-watch set that otherwise spanned the Duoplan, Powermatic and Memovox lines. ### Reverso Lady Ref. QVE50101 1934 · steel A ladies’ Reverso from 1934 with a rare, eye-catching chocolate dial in a steel case — one of three women’s pieces in the Singapore capsule, alongside a Duoplan Coulissante and an avant-garde Calibre 101 bracelet watch. **Capsule V — New York**5–23 February 2026 · eight watches, all Reverso, 1931–1937 ### Reverso 1931, black dial Ref. QVE65101 1931 · men’s · Tavannes calibre Described at launch as “the dial of the future” — black was radical in 1931, when silver dominated. Railway minute track and trapezoidal indexes, both of which directly informed today’s Reverso Tribute aesthetic. ### Reverso 1936, two-tone Ref. QVE10800 1936 · men’s · steel & 9K yellow gold (350/1000) Runs the calibre 410, the first movement JLC developed specifically for the Reverso, with small seconds at six. The two-tone case was a practical idea as much as an aesthetic one: gold combined with harder metal made a watch more robust than solid gold while staying elegant. ### Reverso 1937, small seconds Ref. QVE10100 1937 · men’s · calibre 413 The manufacture’s fourth in-house Reverso movement. Its black dial carries the name *Jaeger-LeCoultre* for the first time — marking the 1937 merger of the two houses, and dating the watch precisely to that year. ### Reverso 1931 Dame, yellow & white gold Ref. QVE50300 1931 · women’s · 18K (750/1000) A white gold cradle with yellow gold lugs and case. Its dial replaces the minute track with corner brackets at each of the four corners — a detail carried straight into today’s Reverso One collection. ### Reverso 1931 Dame, double signature Ref. QVE65100 1931 · women’s · steel Heat-blued hands and a rare double signature on the dial — evidence of limited deliveries to selected retailers whose own names appeared alongside the manufacture’s. On a blue strap. ### Reverso 1931 Cordonnet Ref. QVE90100 1931 · women’s The cord-strap Reverso — the ancestor of the modern Reverso One Cordonnet, worn on a slim silk cord in keeping with 1930s fashion. ### Reverso 1931 Dame, black dial Ref. QVE50103 1931 · women’s · 18K The women’s counterpart to the black-dialled 1931 piece above — the same radical break from the era’s silver dials, scaled down to the smaller 1931 Dame case with plain baton markers and no minute track. ### Reverso 1931 Dame, black dial with numbers Ref. QVE50102 1931 · women’s · 18K A variant of the black-dial 1931 Dame with Arabic numerals in place of plain batons — the eighth piece of the New York capsule, completing the set at five women’s watches to three men’s. **Capsule VI — London**15 June – 18 July 2026 · 7 Reverso + 5 other model lines, 12 pieces total ### Reverso 1931 Ref. QVE10101 1931 · men’s · Tavannes calibre 063 The bold black dial with railroad minute track and elongated trapezoidal indexes, fitted with the Tavannes calibre 063 — a pragmatic early solution before Jaeger-LeCoultre began developing its own shaped movements in 1933. On a hand-crafted black calfskin strap. ### Reverso 1931 Dame Ref. QVE50104 1931 · women’s · steel · Tavannes calibre 051 Cased in steel and powered by the Tavannes calibre 051, showing how quickly the model adapted for different wearers: the men’s minute track gives way to bracket-like corner markers and refined Art Deco corners with trapezoidal indexes — details echoed today in the Reverso One collection. Black calfskin strap. ### Reverso Central Seconds — the Doctor’s Reverso Ref. QVE20300 1938 · steel · calibre 411 Steel-cased and running the manufacture calibre 411, its central seconds display marks five-second intervals aligned with elongated hour markers — designed for taking a pulse at a glance. The practicality earned it a lasting nickname among the doctors who wore it: the "Doctor’s Reverso." Black calfskin strap. ### Reverso Small Seconds, two-tone Ref. QVE20105 1941 · steel & 18K yellow gold (750/1000) · calibre 438 Steel paired with 18K yellow gold, its case stamped with the eagle-head hallmark for French gold. Runs the manufacture calibre 438 with small seconds at six — a configuration introduced in 1933 that became one of the defining signatures of early Reverso design. Light-brown calfskin strap with cream stitching. ### Reverso Corvo Ref. QVEREV01 1972 · steel · calibre 840 · one of 200 A pivotal chapter in the Reverso’s survival: when the post-war era and the quartz crisis turned taste toward purely functional watches, Giorgio Corvo bought the maison’s final 200 unused Reverso cases in 1972 and fitted them with the mechanical calibre 840. Said to have sold out within a month to Italian clients, the Corvo proved demand for the design had never really gone away — and helped pave the way for its 1990s revival. Silver dial, black calfskin strap. ### Reverso Sun Moon Ref. QVE27033 2000 · 18K white gold (750/1000) · calibre 823 A product of the 1990s complication revival, when Jaeger-LeCoultre began fitting the Reverso with sapphire display backs to show off its new generation of complication calibres. The manual-winding calibre 823 (first developed in 1999) drives a black dial tracking the sun through a rotating 24-hour disc, with a moon-phase at six and a power reserve at eleven, framed by a railway track and Arabic numerals. Paired with a black Cordovan strap by Casa Fagliano, the Argentinian polo bootmaker. ### Reverso Art Deco Ref. QVE27734 2003 · 18K white gold (750/1000) · skeletonised calibre 822 The sapphire caseback’s other consequence: skeletonisation, first introduced to the line in 1995. This 2003 example pairs a hand-decorated, skeletonised calibre 822 — blued screws, hand-engraved bridges in a barleycorn motif — with a salmon-toned solid silver dial combining hand-guilloché patterns with vertical brushing, dauphine hands and trapezoidal indexes. Archival records suggest no more than ten were made a month. Black Cordovan strap by Casa Fagliano. **Capsule VII — Hong Kong**October 2026 ### Reverso 1931 Cordonnet Ref. QVE90101 1931 · women’s · steel · Tavannes calibre T051 A second 1931 Cordonnet, after the one in the New York capsule. Numerals in place of baton markers, and small corner brackets in place of the minute track, show how quickly the first Reverso was adapted for women. Steel case, with the Tavannes calibre T051 that powered the Reverso in its first year while LeCoultre & Cie developed shaped movements of its own. ### Reverso Platinum Number One Ref. QVE21664 2001 · platinum (950/1000) · skeletonised calibre 849R-SQ · one of 500 One of two platinum Reversos introduced at the turn of the century, each limited to 500 pieces, after the 1990s had brought a new generation of complicated Reverso calibres behind sapphire case backs. Number One shows its movement: the calibre 849R-SQ, skeletonised and adapted for the 42.2 mm case, with hand-engraved bridges and both sides of the barrel engraved, so the mainspring itself can be seen. The blue sapphire in the crown is picked up by blued hands and a blue Cordovan strap by Casa Fagliano. ### Reverso Platinum Number Two Ref. QVE21764 2003 · platinum (950/1000) · tourbillon calibre 848 · one of 500 The second of the platinum pair, and the quieter one from the front: a tone-on-tone grey dial with hand-painted numerals, the power reserve shown by a hand on the same axis as the hours and minutes, and the tourbillon glimpsed only through the small seconds. The show is kept for the back, where a mirror-polished bridge holds the turning cage; the hand-bevelled tourbillon bridge is hollowed and black-polished, a nod to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first tourbillon of 1946. Blued hands, a blue Cordovan strap by Casa Fagliano and a white gold folding buckle. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse Summary: The one Reverso family that put the art on the dial instead of the case-back — hidden behind a shutter, so you decide when to look. Launched in 2006 for the… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Reverso à Éclipses The one Reverso family that put the art on the dial instead of the case-back — hidden behind a shutter, so you decide when to look. **Introduced**2006– **Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting on the dial, behind a sliding shutter **Edition size**Varies by piece — see individual entries **Movement**Calibre 849 · manual-wound · ultra-thin **Case**Platinum, pink gold, or rose gold, various sizes **Pieces in set**24 Launched in 2006 for the Reverso’s 75th anniversary, the Reverso à Éclipses inverted the usual logic of an enamelled Reverso: instead of a miniature painted on the blank case-back, the artwork sits on the *dial*, hidden behind a working shutter that slides open on a wheel at 2 o’clock. The mechanism — developed by JLC’s then Artistic and Design Director Janek Deleskiewicz and engineered by Daniel Wild — is a genuine miniature complication in its own right: a chain just 1.6 cm long and 4 mm thick, built from 192 parts, driving shutters only 0.25 mm thick yet reportedly able to withstand 5 kg of pressure. Each enamel miniature behind the shutter takes roughly a month of painting, built up layer by layer and fired repeatedly at around 800°C, the same technique used elsewhere in JLC’s enamel programme. Two case references anchor most of the run: 246.6.79 in platinum, generally for the larger Famous Nudes editions (3 to 10 pieces per subject), and 246.2.79 in pink gold, used both for smaller 5-piece runs of some Famous Nudes and Voyages et Découvertes subjects and for genuine one-off commissions. The range was organised around four recurring themes — Famous Nudes, Voyages et Découvertes (“Voyages of Discovery”: named cities and landmarks including New York, Singapore, Constantinople, Venice, the Great Wall, and the Silk Road), Chinese Zodiac, and Grand Feu — plus occasional one-off personalised commissions. Collectors describe the series as having gone quiet for some years before resurfacing; as of the mid-2010s Jaeger-LeCoultre still offered the concept as a custom order even after it left the standard catalogue. Click any piece to turn it over **Voyages of Discovery**Officially “Voyages et Découvertes” — cityscapes and travel imagery from 2006 · platinum runs of 3, pink gold runs of 5 ### “Port of New York” Ref. 246.6.79 2008 · platinum A view of New York harbour behind the shutter — one of a small set of port cities and travel views produced alongside the painting-based themes, on the same case references as the rest of the Éclipses range. ### “Port of Singapore” Ref. 246.2.79 2008 · pink gold A view of Singapore’s harbour, part of the same Voyages of Discovery port-city set as Port of New York, this one in pink gold. ### “Vue de Constantinople” (View of Constantinople) Ref. 377 64 09 (platinum) · 246.2.79 (pink gold) 2008 · pink gold and platinum A view of Constantinople (Istanbul), part of the Voyages of Discovery set, made in both pink gold and platinum (ref. 377 64 09, 950 platinum). ### “The Great Wall” (of China) 2008 · pink gold and platinum · 5 pieces The Great Wall of China, made in both pink gold and platinum, part of a 5-piece run per metal — a landmark rather than a city view, but grouped with the same Voyages of Discovery travel theme and edition pattern as the port cities above. ### “The Silk Road” Ref. Q3776413 (platinum) · 246.2.79 (pink gold) 2006 · platinum and pink gold A miniature depicting the Silk Road, produced in both platinum and pink gold — confirming the theme’s official French name, “Voyages et Découvertes,” directly from an owner’s own description of the piece. The platinum version is notably heavy on the wrist given the solid case: 29 mm wide, 39.5 mm long, on a white gold Jaeger-LeCoultre double deployant clasp, calibre 849 (19 jewels). The platinum run is limited to 3 pieces — smaller than the 5-piece pink gold city views, consistent with the smaller-platinum-run pattern seen in Famous Nudes. ### “The Port of La Rochelle” — after Claude-Joseph Vernet Ref. Q3772421 18-carat pink gold A reproduction of Vernet’s 1762 painting of the port of La Rochelle, one of the French master’s celebrated series of French port views. Per Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own catalogue description, the enameller combined traditional opaque enamel with translucent enamel over a guilloché ground specifically to light the sky — a technique distinguishing this piece from the flatter colour fields used on most other Éclipses miniatures. **Grand Feu**Named-artist single subjects, the Chinese Zodiac design, and bespoke commissions ### “Love on Terrace Scene” 18-carat pink gold A reproduction of a classic theme from Mughal miniature painting — a couple on a terrace — rather than a Western old master, per Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own catalogue description. Little else about this piece is documented beyond the subject and case metal. ### Homage to Kazimir Malevich 2011 · pink gold · 5 pieces Made with the State Russian Museum of St Petersburg’s assistance, to mark both the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and the opening of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s St Petersburg boutique: a miniature of Malevich’s *Peasant Woman* (1931), from the final and most complex period of the Suprematist painter’s career, still held by the State Russian Museum today. Pink gold, five pieces. ### Van Gogh — “Sunflowers” 2015 · rose gold · 5 pieces Made with Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum for the 125th anniversary of the artist’s death: one of Van Gogh’s 1888 *Sunflowers* still lifes, the series he painted to impress fellow painter Gauguin by building a powerful image from variations on a single colour. Rose gold, calibre 849 (1.85 mm thick, 35-hour reserve), five pieces; the watch itself is displayed at the Van Gogh Museum. ### Van Gogh — “Self-Portrait as a Painter” 2016 · platinum · 4 pieces The second Van Gogh collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, for the Reverso’s 85th anniversary: his 1887–1888 *Self-Portrait as a Painter*, a work Van Gogh himself described in a letter to his sister as exhausting to make — “wrinkles in forehead and around the mouth, stiffly wooden, a very red beard, quite unkempt and sad.” Platinum, calibre 849, four pieces, sold only at the Van Gogh Museum boutique in Amsterdam for roughly €101,000 excluding tax. ### Zep — “Titeuf” 2011 · pink gold · unique piece Not a themed edition but a one-off personal commission, also catalogued as a Pièce Unique elsewhere in this archive: Swiss cartoonist Philippe Chappuis — “Zep,” creator of the comic character Titeuf — was invited to the manufacture for the Reverso’s 80th anniversary and designed a dial showing Titeuf climbing inside the watch’s own gear train, a nod to Chaplin in *Modern Times*. More than eighty hours of enamel work. Unveiled at the Veytay Polo Club during the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polo Masters Geneva, then auctioned at Artcurial in Paris on 29 November 2011 in aid of the Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies. ### Chinese Zodiac Ref. 246.2.79 / Q3772402 2013 · pink or rose gold · 28–29 pieces Not twelve individual animal watches but one design showing the full Chinese zodiac in white over a blue ground, by the Japanese painter Hiroshi Senju — an unusual choice of a living, named contemporary artist rather than a historical master. 46.6 × 29.4 mm, snap-on case-back, closed position reveals a plain gold dial with black Arabic numerals. Calibre 849, 123 parts, 19 jewels, 35-hour reserve. Sources disagree slightly on the edition size — Antiquorum’s cataloguing gives 29 pieces on case reference 246.2.79, while a separate retailer listing (commercial reference Q3772402) gives 28; one recorded example was numbered in the high twenties, consistent with the smaller 28-piece figure. **Famous Nudes**8+ subjects · platinum (3–10 pieces) and pink gold (5 pieces) versions ### “The Source” — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Ref. likely 246.6.79 Famous Nudes · platinum · 3 pieces A nude holding an upturned pitcher, water flowing out — Ingres’s 19th-century academic classic, reproduced in miniature enamel. This example’s case-back was left plain, though JLC could decorate the reverse as well on request. Other Famous Nudes subjects share the platinum case reference 246.6.79; this piece likely does too, though it hasn’t been individually confirmed. ### “Judith” — Gustav Klimt Ref. likely 246.6.79 Famous Nudes · platinum · 3 pieces Klimt’s gilded, unsettling *Judith*, one of the Vienna Secession’s defining images, shrunk onto a Reverso dial — the earlier of two Klimt subjects in the octet, the other being *The Kiss*. ### “La Baigneuse” (The Bather) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Ref. 377 64 01 (platinum) · 246.2.79 (pink gold) Famous Nudes · pink gold and platinum Renoir’s *La Baigneuse*, one of his many bather studies, completing the roster of named Famous Nudes subjects alongside Ingres, Klimt, and Botticelli. Made in both platinum (ref. 377 64 01, 950 platinum) and pink gold (ref. 246.2.79) — the pink gold example catalogued by Sotheby’s dated circa 2007. ### “Primavera” — Sandro Botticelli Ref. 246.6.79 Famous Nudes · platinum Botticelli’s *Primavera* (c. 1480), one of the most reproduced paintings in Western art, reduced to a Reverso dial — confirmed via Christie’s cataloguing of an example on the platinum Famous Nudes case reference 246.6.79. ### “The Turkish Bath” — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Ref. 246.6.79 (platinum) / 246.2.79 (pink gold) Famous Nudes A second Ingres subject in the octet alongside *The Source*: *Le Bain Turc* (1862), Ingres’s crowded, circular late-career harem scene. Made in at least two metals — a platinum example on the standard Famous Nudes case reference 246.6.79 (Sotheby’s dates one to circa 2006), and a pink gold version on 246.2.79 (Antiquorum) — suggesting Famous Nudes subjects were produced in small pink gold runs of 5 alongside the platinum editions. ### “The Kiss” — Gustav Klimt Ref. Q3772434 / 246.6.79 2008 · platinum · 10 pieces A second Klimt subject alongside *Judith* and *Danaë*: his best-known image, *The Kiss* (1907–1908), on the same 246.6.79 platinum case — but in a run of 10 rather than the 3 or 5 pieces documented for other Famous Nudes subjects, suggesting edition size varied by design rather than being fixed across the whole series. Distinct commercial reference (Q3772434) from the pink gold Danaë (Q3772408), confirming these are two separate Klimt watches within the range rather than metal variants of one design. ### “Danaë” — Gustav Klimt Ref. Q3772408 / 246.2.79 Famous Nudes · pink gold · 5 pieces · c. 2006–2012 A third Klimt subject in the range, distinct from *Judith* and *The Kiss*: his *Danaë* (1907–1908), reinterpreting the Greek myth of Zeus visiting the imprisoned princess Danaë as a shower of gold, from which she conceived Perseus — Klimt turns the myth into a curled, fetal-shaped figure wrapped in purple fabric, the gold stream running through it, described by the Klimt Foundation as a deliberately sensual reworking of the source story. Phillips dates the Famous Nudes project generally to 2006, the year both the Reverso’s 75th anniversary and the Éclipses model itself arrived, though individual examples were evidently completed and sold later — this one, case No. 2’542’744, dates to around 2012. Pink gold, approximately 29 × 47 mm, manual calibre 849 (roughly 35-hour reserve), five pieces; listed at €72,000 in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own October 2012 European price list. ### “Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars” Ref. 246.2.79 Famous Nudes · pink (rose) gold · 5 pieces · sold from 2009 The one Famous Nudes subject in this archive not attributed to a named painter — the original, a Second School of Fontainebleau work from around 1594 now in the Louvre, has never had its artist identified, despite entering the museum’s collection in 1937. It shows two women, believed to be Gabrielle d’Estrées (mistress of King Henry IV of France) and her sister the Duchess of Villars, sitting in a bath; the intimate hand gesture is generally read as a symbol of Gabrielle’s pregnancy with Henry’s illegitimate child, the ring she holds a further reference to the king. Rose gold, calibre 849, 29 × 39 mm, black Arabic numerals printed directly onto the rose gold shutters. Limited to 5 pieces; one example was originally sold by Jaeger-LeCoultre on 30 April 2009 and later resold at Bonhams in June 2016 for £27,500 including premium. ### An erotic scene (sometimes described as Kama Sutra) Ref. Q3776408 / 246.6.79 (platinum) · 246.2.79 (pink gold) Famous Nudes · platinum and pink gold Catalogued by Christie’s simply as an unnamed “erotic scene,” on the platinum Famous Nudes case (case No. 2’454’653), one of 3 pieces — matching the run size reported elsewhere for the Ingres *Source*. Also produced in pink gold, following the same dual-metal pattern as other Famous Nudes subjects. Other, secondary sources describe a Famous Nudes subject drawn from the Kama Sutra; this may be the same piece, though the auction house’s own description doesn’t use that name, so the two aren’t stated as identical with certainty. ### A unique erotic scene (pink gold) Ref. 246.2.79 Unique piece Not part of the numbered Famous Nudes run at all: a one-off pink gold Éclipses with its own erotic enamel scene, on the separate 246.2.79 case reference. Catalogued by Christie’s as a genuine unique piece — likely a bespoke commission in the same spirit as Zep’s Titeuf watch below. ### “La Dormeuse” (The Sleeping Woman) Ref. 246.2.79 (pink gold) Famous Nudes · pink gold and platinum · c. 2009 A reclining-nude subject in the Famous Nudes run, made in both pink gold and platinum, limited to 5 pieces per metal. Sotheby’s catalogued the pink gold example only by its French title, without naming the original painting or artist behind it. ### “The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary” Ref. 246.2.79 Famous Nudes · pink gold · 5 pieces The one confirmed subject in the entire Éclipses range that isn’t a nude at all, despite being catalogued within the “Famous Nudes” series: the Angel Gabriel’s announcement to the Virgin Mary. Sotheby’s own catalogue note names the scene directly and confirms a run of 5 examples. Why a religious Annunciation scene sits inside a line explicitly branded around nude paintings isn’t explained by the source — possibly a cataloguing inconsistency on Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own part, or evidence that “Famous Nudes” had become a loose umbrella name for the pink gold 5-piece runs generally, not a strict thematic rule. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/gt-duoface-premiere Summary: Three dial colours, two metals each — six watches built for one market. A Grande Taille Duoface issued for Japan in three dial colours — green, red and blue… Updated: 2026-09-11 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Artistic Edition # Grande Taille Duoface “Première” Three dial colours, two metals each — six watches built for one market. **Introduced**1990s **Crafts**Made for the Japanese market **Edition size**39 pieces (gold) · 300 pieces (steel), per colour **Movement**Cal. 854 **Case**270.1.54 (gold) · 270.8.54 (steel) **Pieces in set**6 A Grande Taille Duoface issued for Japan in three dial colours — green, red and blue — each offered in both yellow gold and stainless steel. The gold versions were capped at 39 pieces per colour, the steel at 300, for six watches in total sharing one calibre and one case architecture, distinguished only by dial and metal. Click any piece to turn it over ### “Première Green”, yellow gold Ref. 270.1.54 Yellow gold · 39 pieces One of three colours in the Japanese Première Duoface run; the gold versions were 39 pieces each. ### “Première Green”, steel Ref. 270.8.54 Stainless steel · 300 pieces The steel version of the green Première. ### “Première Red”, yellow gold Ref. 270.1.54 Yellow gold · 39 pieces The red dial in yellow gold. ### “Première Red”, steel Ref. 270.8.54 Stainless steel · 300 pieces The red Première in steel. ### “Première Blue”, yellow gold Ref. 270.1.54 Yellow gold · 39 pieces The blue dial in yellow gold, completing the trio. ### “Première Blue”, steel Ref. 270.8.54 Stainless steel · 300 pieces The blue Première in steel. Help Complete This Set ## Missing details, missing photos. Missing a photo, or have a detail to add? If you own one of these pieces, or have the press pack, we'd like to hear from you. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/models Summary: Every documented Reverso in order, from the 1931 Tavannes-powered original to the enamel miniatures of 2026 — six eras with references, calibres and case sizes. Updated: 2026-10-29 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Models # Ninety-five years, one rectangle. Every Reverso we can document, in order — from a 1931 watch running a borrowed Tavannes movement to the enamel miniatures of 2026. Six eras, with reference numbers, calibres and case sizes wherever the record supports them. I 1931 – 1948  ·  8 entries ## The First Series From a borrowed Tavannes movement to a watch discontinued and nearly forgotten. Everything here is vintage; nothing here was ever called a "Reverso Classic". 1931 ### Reverso (first series) **Calibre**Tavannes cal. 064 **Case**38 × 23 mm Time onlyNo secondsStaybrite steelNo longer produced Born of a contract signed in Lausanne by Chauvot, the Geneva casemakers A. & E. Wenger, and César de Trey with his son Pierre. Chauvot took SFr 2.50 for every watch sold. They projected 5,000 pieces a year in steel and gold, in two sizes, and wanted stock in shops for Christmas 1931. Article 14 of that contract quietly permitted movements from Tavannes, Movado *or* Jaeger/LeCoultre: an escape clause in case Le Sentier could not deliver in time, which is exactly what happened. It was also marketed hard on toughness: a 1940 advertisement called it *la montre idéale aux armées*, built in Staybrite steel, “absolutely stainless, and of a hardness proof against any test”. No seconds hand, and the dial signed simply “Reverso”: no Jaeger, no LeCoultre, because there was no LeCoultre movement inside to claim. Source: Basha, *JLC: A Guide for the Collector* 1931 ### Reverso, ladies’ first series **Calibre**Smaller Tavannes calibre **Case**approx. 28 × 16 mm Women’s modelFirst series onlyNo longer produced A women’s Reverso existed from the very beginning, which is telling: there was no meaningful market of female polo players. It appears only in the first series (1931–33) and then vanishes, making it one of the scarcer vintage configurations. The line went further than the wrist: Artcurial’s 2011 sale included a c.1933 Staybrite *pendant* Reverso (a keyless bag watch, case no. 14494, movement no. 38029, 34 × 23 mm), confirming the ref. 205 pendant listed in the period tables. 1932 ### Reverso “De Luxe” **Calibre**Tavannes cal. 064, adjusted **Case**38 × 23 mm Sapphire crystalAdjusted movementNo longer produced The upgrade tier, and quietly a landmark. The De Luxe was fitted with a synthetic sapphire crystal, among the earliest known uses of sapphire in a commercial wristwatch, and a movement adjusted to two or more positions. Given that the whole watch existed because mineral glass shattered, solving the problem with sapphire rather than steel is a neat piece of irony. Source: Basha, *JLC: A Guide for the Collector* 1933 ### Reverso, LeCoultre-powered **Calibre**LeCoultre cal. 11U / 410 (small seconds), 411 (centre seconds) **Case**38 × 23 mm In-house movementTwo variantsNo longer produced Two years in, LeCoultre finally had its own rectangular movement, and immediately made two: the 410 with small seconds at six, and the 411 with a sweeping centre seconds. This is also the moment the dials start carrying names: Reverso-LeCoultre, Jaeger, and after 1937 Jaeger-LeCoultre. Retailer signatures appear too: Gübelin, Türler, Cartier, sometimes instead of the manufacture’s own. 1931–1935 ### The lacquered colour dials **Calibre**Tavannes 064 / Lisica **Case**various BurgundyBlueRedBlack lacquerStern dialsNo longer produced The detail that most surprises people about vintage Reversos: they were not all silver. Artcurial’s 2011 Jaeger-LeCoultre sale catalogued a run of lacquered colour dials from the very first years: a burgundy ladies’ model in gold and steel from 1931, a black-lacquer piece for E. Gübelin, an extremely rare *blue* dial with painted Arabic numerals, and a red lacquered dial signed Gübelin on a Lisica calibre 864. Several of the black-lacquer dials were made by *Stern*, the Geneva dial house that would later own Patek Philippe. The modern Tribute Rouge and Bleu are not inventions; they are revivals. Source: Artcurial, *Jaeger-LeCoultre Unique Auction*, Paris, 29 November 2011 1931–1948 ### Retailer-signed and rebadged Reversos **Calibre**Lisica 064, Lisica EF51, EWC **Case**various GübelinGolay Fils & StahlEuropean Watch & Clock Co.No longer produced A whole shadow catalogue of Reversos wearing other names. The Artcurial sale included pieces signed for *E. Gübelin*, for *Golay Fils & Stahl* on a Lisica calibre EF51, and, most intriguingly, a c.1948 example signed *European Watch & Clock Co. Inc.* of New York, running an EWC-numbered movement on an extensible steel and black-lacquer bracelet. EWC was Cartier’s American arm, which puts a Cartier-affiliated Reverso in New York at the very end of the model’s first life. Note also that “Lisica” appears repeatedly as a calibre signature: the name under which the bought-in movements were marked. Source: Artcurial, Paris, 29 November 2011 1930s ### Reverso Standard & Reverso Lux **Calibre**Various **Case**38 × 23 mm Two tiersFull reference tableNo longer produced The period sales literature defines the two grades precisely: the *luxury* version had a specially-made movement, sapphire glass, a finer dial and a top-quality leather strap; the *standard* had a robust but plainer movement and ordinary glass. Dials came silver-plated with Gothic numerals, with hour symbols, with hour symbols and a Gothic 12, and in luminous variants of each. A period catalogue page sets out the core references plainly: *ref. 2201* with the 11-line USC movement (centre seconds), *ref. 201* with the 11-line UL, and *ref. 651* with the 9-line UO, each available all-steel, all-gold, or with a steel cradle and gold case. The fuller grid runs men’s De Luxe centre seconds 1101–1108, men’s De Luxe subsidiary 101–108, ladies’ cord-strap De Luxe 901–908, with Standard equivalents 2201–2208, 201–208 and R701–R708. Source: Basha, from the 1940 French catalogue 1930s ### Licensed abroad: the Hamilton “Otis” Licensed designUS marketNo longer produced Proof of how quickly the idea travelled. The patent was licensed out through the 1930s and Jaeger-LeCoultre supplied other firms directly. *Patek Philippe* carried a reversible watch in its range. Geneva bought movements from Le Sentier at the time, as did *Cartier*. Preferential retailers such as *Gübelin* sold Reversos signed with their own name on the dial, and the New York importer *European Watch & Clock Co.* did the same, its watches carrying EWC-marked movements. Some of the finest early dials came from *Stern Frères* of Geneva. In the United States *Hamilton* sold the Reverso under its own name for years. There was a reason for the American arrangement: a US instrumentation company already owned the protected name “Jaeger” and consignments were turned back by customs, so Reversos bound for America carried only the *LC* signet on movement and dial until an agreement was reached in the early 1980s. II 1948 – 1985  ·  4 entries ## The Long Silence & the Rescue Twenty-four years out of the catalogue, two hundred forgotten cases, and the slow, cautious rebuild of a watch nobody at the manufacture was sure anyone still wanted. 1972 ### The Corvo Reverso **Calibre**Cal. 840 (the oval “ovetto”) **Case**Original 1930s cases 200 piecesThe rescueNo longer produced Not a catalogue model, but a rescue, and the sequence is worth having exactly. It began with a phone call from Léon Constantin, just back from Milan, asking how many Reversos were left in stock; the general manager was out, so a secretary took the message. The answer: 200 steel cases, no movements. Days later Giorgio Corvo, JLC’s sole representative for Italy and then the most trend-setting watch market in the world, called and said simply, “I’ll take them all.” Le Sentier rang his Milan office *three times* to confirm he was serious, then tried to talk him out of it: the 9- and 11-line movements were long out of production and restarting was unthinkable in 1972. So Corvo solved it himself, fitting a movement into a case in Milan and carrying the result back to Switzerland as proof. A new dial was drawn for the run, white or grey, signed LeCoultre: one hundred of each. They sold out in a month. Source: Corvo family interview, Hodinkee archive film 1982–83 ### Reverso II **Calibre**Mostly quartz; some mechanical **Case**32 × 23 mm 150th anniversaryNo gadroonsNo longer produced The official relaunch, for the manufacture’s 150th anniversary. Wider and squarer than the classic proportions, and, almost uniquely in the whole history of the line, without the three-line gadroon motif above and below the dial. Buyers wanted the rectangle back, so it was retired quickly. Its shape resurfaced 25 years later as the Squadra. 1985 ### The water-resistant Reverso **Calibre**Quartz and mechanical **Case**Classic proportions 50+ part caseFirst water-resistantNo longer produced The watch that made every modern Reverso possible, and it took Daniel Wild five years. The pin-in-groove guidance of 1931 gave way to a skid system (an eagle-tail-shaped skate that returns inside the cradle and cannot be disengaged) while a “guard ring”, effectively a second case, carried the movement on four sealed beryllium screws. The silhouette stayed identical to the millimetre while the part count went from roughly 30 to over 50. It was water-resistant for the first time, and able to pivot at any point along the cradle rather than only at the far end. One of the most complicated cases in watchmaking, hidden inside something that looks unchanged since 1931. late 1980s ### Reverso Classique **Calibre**Cal. 846/1, or cal. 657 quartz **Case**38.5 × 23.1 mm New “Classic” dialDame / Lady sizeNo longer produced The first modern civilian Reverso: original proportions, but a completely new dial (black numerals on white, rail-track minute ring) which broke deliberately with the coloured, index-marked dials of the 1930s. A smaller “Dame” version arrived alongside it, same rectangle, on strap or bracelet. III 1991 – 2000  ·  13 entries ## The Complication Decade Six anniversary limited editions, 500 pieces each, one new complication roughly every two years. The decade that turned a design classic into a horological platform. c.1990 ### Reverso Joaillerie, Calibre 101 **Calibre**Cal. 101 · crown on the reverse **Case**11 × 27 mm Fully diamond-set~4.2 ctSmallest movement in the worldNo longer produced Predating the better-known Grande Reverso 101 by well over a decade: a white-gold ladies’ Reverso with the case entirely set in diamonds (roughly 4.2 carats), running the 1929 calibre 101, still the smallest mechanical movement ever series-produced. The winding crown sits on the back of the case rather than the side. Example number 1 appeared at Artcurial in 2011. Source: Artcurial, Paris, 29 Nov 2011, lot 471 1991 ### Reverso Grande Taille **Calibre**Cal. 822 · refs 270.2.62 / 270.1.62 / 270.5.62 / 270.8.62 **Case**42 × 26 mm New larger casePlatform for everythingNo longer produced The bigger case that gave the complications somewhere to live, and it stayed in production until 2016. It exists because the 60th-anniversary watch needed a complication calibre the existing case simply could not take: design head Janek Deleskiewicz wanted a display back, the movement grew, and Günter Blümlein approved the then-radical decision to enlarge the Reverso itself. Its calibre 822 was drawn deliberately in the spirit of the 1930s cal. 410, a modern movement wearing a period face. 1991 ### Reverso 60ème (Soixantième) **Calibre**Cal. 824 · ref. 270.2.64 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Power reserveDateFirst display back500 pieces The hinge point of the entire modern collection. First Reverso with a complication and the first with a sapphire display back instead of blank steel, and the first of six 500-piece anniversary editions running through the decade. A documented example (no. 480/500, sold at Artcurial in 2011) records the detail: 26 × 42 mm pink gold case, silver guilloché dial, small seconds at six, a pink gold date hand and power reserve at ten, blued steel hands, and calibre 824 with its plate and bridges in *14K pink gold*, visible through the sapphire back. 1992 ### Reverso Art Deco **Calibre**Cal. 822 skeletonised · refs 270.2.62 / 270.3.62 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Engraved movementDisplay backLimited edition One of the rarest of the period: a hand-engraved movement shown off through the display back, made in tiny numbers and easy to miss in the shadow of the anniversary pieces. 1993 ### Reverso Tourbillon **Calibre**Cal. 828 · ref. 270.2.68 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille TourbillonPower reserve on the back500 pieces JLC’s first tourbillon in modern times, and it went into the rectangle, not a round case. The tourbillon and power-reserve indication sit on the reverse, so the complication is the thing you turn the watch over to see. 1994 ### Reverso Répétition Minutes **Calibre**Cal. 943 · ref. 270.2.73 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Minute repeaterWorld first: rectangular repeater500 pieces The world’s first rectangular minute-repeater movement. Gongs want to be round; making them sing inside a rectangle is a problem most houses simply declined to take on. 1994 ### Reverso Duoface **Calibre**Cal. 854 · refs 270.2.54 / 270.1.54 / 270.3.54 / 270.8.54 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Second dialDual timeSingle movementIn current collection The most consequential Reverso since 1931, and it began on a restaurant tablecloth. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own account has the concept sketched over lunch in a small restaurant in the Vallée de Joux: what if the famous watch offered *two* watch faces? The answer was calibre 854: the time here on the front, the time elsewhere on the back, from one movement. Three years later the women’s Reverso gained two faces of its own, one for day and one for night, as the Duetto. Everything called Duoface or Duetto since descends from that lunch. 1996 ### Reverso Chronographe Rétrograde **Calibre**Cal. 829 · ref. 270.2.69 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Retrograde chronographIndications on both faces500 pieces A chronograph split across two dials, with a retrograde hand that sweeps back to zero instead of running in circles, the sensible answer when your dial is a rectangle. Cal. 829 is the direct ancestor of the 2023 Tribute Chronograph’s cal. 860. 1997 ### Reverso Duetto **Calibre**Cal. 865 (1997); cal. 844 (1994 Lady) **Case**38.5 × 23.1 mm Women’s dual dialDay dial / night dialNo longer produced The Duoface idea rewritten for women: a discreet dial for daytime on the front, a more decorative one for the evening on the back, one movement driving both. The name is still in use today. 1998 ### Reverso Géographique **Calibre**Cal. 858 · ref. 270.2.58 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille World timeCity selectorDay/night both sides500 pieces The Reverso’s first true travel watch: dual time with a city-name selector on the back and day/night indication on both faces. JLC would not seriously revisit world time in a Reverso for another 27 years. 1998 ### Reverso Gran’Sport **Calibre**Cal. 960 (auto), 851 Duoface, 859 chrono, 864 Duetto **Case**Curved sports case First automatics in the lineSportier caseNo longer produced A deliberate attempt to reach a different buyer: rounded, curved, more athletic, and the first Reverso family to use automatic movements. It ran until the Squadra replaced it in 2006. 2000 ### Reverso Grande Sun Moon **Calibre**Cal. 823 · refs 270.2.63 / 270.3.63 / 270.6.63 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Moon phaseDay/nightPower reserveNo longer produced Power reserve, moon phase and a night-and-day display, in the larger Grande case. 2000 ### Reverso Quantième Calendrier Perpétuel **Calibre**Cal. 855 · ref. 270.2.55 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille Perpetual calendarMoon phase500 pieces The sixth and final watch of the 500-piece anniversary series, released for the millennium: leap-year indication on the front, month, day, date and moon phase on the back. IV 1998 – 2012  ·  12 entries ## Bigger, Sportier, Grander Gran’Sport, Grande Taille, XGT, Grande, Squadra. The Reverso spent the 2000s growing, and building the most complicated watches it has ever carried. 2001 ### Reverso Platinum Number One **Calibre**Cal. 849R-SQ, skeletonised · ref. 270.6.49 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille SkeletonisedPlatinum500 pieces The first of a pair of platinum Reversos for the new century: a skeletonised movement with hand-engraved bridges and an engraved barrel that lets you see the mainspring, behind a sapphire back. One came back through The Collectibles in Hong Kong in 2026. 2001–02 ### Reverso Septantième (70ème) **Calibre**Cal. 879 **Case**First “XGT” Grande case 8-day power reserveDouble barrelLarge date500 pieces Seventy years, eight days. A double-barrel movement paired with a high-frequency balance gave over a week of running power, and its patented large date opened the whole Grande Reverso chapter that followed. Cal. 879 is the direct ancestor of the 2025 Tribute Geographic’s cal. 834. 2003 ### Reverso Platinum Number Two **Calibre**Cal. 848 tourbillon · ref. 270.6.48 **Case**42 × 26 mm Grande Taille TourbillonPlatinum500 pieces The companion to Number One: a quiet grey dial on the front, with the tourbillon kept for the back. One came back through The Collectibles in Hong Kong in 2026. 2003 ### Reverso Grande family **Calibre**Cal. 970 auto, 875 Grande Date, 874 8 Days **Case**46.5 × 29 mm Grande DateGMT8 DaysAutomatiqueNo longer produced A whole family in one year: Grande Automatique, Grande Date, Grande GMT and Grande 8 Days. This is the point where the Reverso stopped being one watch with variants and became a range with tiers. 2004 ### Grande Reverso 101 **Calibre**Cal. 101 Smallest mechanical movement in the worldLimited edition The 1929 calibre 101 (still the smallest mechanical movement ever put into series production) fitted into a Reverso. A jeweller’s watch with a watchmaker’s heart. 2006 ### Reverso Grande Complication à Triptyque **Calibre**Cal. 175 **Case**Grande Three dialsTourbillonPerpetual calendarSidereal time6 patents75 pieces The world’s first watch with three dials driven by a single movement: front, back, and a third display hidden inside the cradle itself. Three dimensions of time at once: civil, sidereal and perpetual, with a tourbillon and an equation of time. Six new patents. 2006 ### Reverso à Éclipses **Calibre**Cal. 849 Shutter mechanismRare craftsLimited edition A miniature shutter over the case-back that opens to reveal the decoration beneath. The case-back is treated as something to be unveiled rather than simply seen. 2006–2012 ### Reverso Squadra family **Calibre**Cal. 977 Hometime, 754 Chrono GMT, 753 World Chrono, 966/968J Lady **Case**up to 52.9 × 36.5 mm Square caseSports lineLady DuettoNo longer produced The square Reverso, and the one with the best origin story: its proportions came from Chauvot’s *original 1931 drawings*, which showed the Reverso as a square rather than a rectangle. Those seventy-five-year-old sketches were pulled from the archive and overscaled into something their author could never have foreseen: the flagship Squadra Chronograph GMT ran 35 mm across and a stupendous 50.5 mm lug to lug, with the godrons repeated on the chronograph pushers and the octagonal crown for grip. It replaced Gran’Sport as the sports line. Hometime, Chronograph GMT, World Chronograph, and from 2009 a Lady and Lady Duetto. Retired in the 2016 reset with no direct successor. 2008 ### Reverso Gyrotourbillon 2 **Calibre**Cal. 174 **Case**Largest case of its day Spherical tourbillonCylindrical hairspringPerpetual calendarEquation of time75 pieces A spherical multi-axis tourbillon (inner carriage one rotation every 18.75 seconds, outer carriage one per minute) squeezed into a rectangle. The first wristwatch to run a cylindrical hairspring. It took first *and* second place at the 2009 International Chronometry Competition. 2009–2012 ### Grande Reverso Duo / Night & Day / Calendar **Calibre**Cal. 986, 976, 843 **Case**48.5 × 29.5 mm Duo DateNight & DayCalendarNo longer produced The Grande Reverso family at full stretch: the Duo Date on calibre 986 (2009), the time-only 976, the Duo “Night & Day”, and a Grande Reverso Calendar in 2012. The Duo Date runs a guilloché silver front with date at twelve and small seconds at six, and a black reverse with luminous hands and a day/night indicator; 31 × 52 mm. *Edition size needs care:* a pink-gold example at Artcurial in 2011 was numbered *286/500*, which conflicts with the 1,500-piece figure quoted elsewhere; most likely 500 per metal rather than 1,500 overall, but treat it as unresolved. 2011 ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931 **Calibre**Cal. 822 **Case**46.8 × 27.4 × 7.3 mm 80th anniversaryClosest to the originalNo longer produced Made for the 80th birthday and still the modern watch that looks most like 1931: no seconds, no clutter, a black dial with applied batons, and only 7.3 mm thick. Followed by Rouge, Bleu and 1948 variants, and a skeletonised SQ on cal. 849. 2011 ### Reverso Répétition Minutes à Rideau **Calibre**Cal. 944 **Case**Grande Minute repeaterSliding curtainTrebuchet hammersLimited edition A minute repeater hidden behind a sliding metal curtain that opens as you activate it, the mechanism imitating the case’s own gesture. Trebuchet hammers strike gongs fixed to the sapphire crystal. V 2016 – 2023  ·  9 entries ## The Modern Rationalisation SIHH 2016 swept away a fragmented line-up and replaced it with three clear families: Classic, Tribute, and One. Almost everything sold today descends from this reset. 2016–17 ### Reverso Classic (Small / Medium / Large) **Calibre**Cal. 846/1, 822/2, 965, 969, 854A/2, 844, 968A **Case**34.2 × 21.0 → 45.6 × 27.4 mm Three sizesMonoface / Duoface / DuettoIn current collection The 2016 reset in one family. Three sizes, each available Monoface, Duoface or Duetto, quartz at first and then hand-wound. This is the modern entry point to the collection. 2016–18 ### Reverso Tribute family **Calibre**Cal. 822/2, 853, 854A/2, 854C/2, 847 **Case**42.9 × 25.5 → 49.7 × 29.9 mm CalendarMoonDuofaceSmall SecondsTourbillonIn current collection The heritage-facing tier: closest in detail to the 1930s watches, with better finishing and in-house calibres. Launched with Tribute Calendar and Tribute Duoface; Tribute Moon (2017), Small Seconds and Tribute Tourbillon on the new cal. 847 (2018) followed. 2016 ### Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon **Calibre**Cal. 179 **Case**51.1 × 31.0 × 12.4 mm 85th anniversaryBi-axial flying tourbillonGyrolab balanceLimited edition The 85th-anniversary piece, and around 30% smaller in width and thickness than the 2008 Gyrotourbillon 2. A bi-axial flying tourbillon with a hemispherical balance spring and the non-circular Gyrolab balance wheel, engineered to cut air friction. 2016–19 ### Reverso One family **Calibre**Cal. 657 quartz, 842, 844 **Case**32.5 × 16.3 → 40.1 × 20.0 mm 2:1 proportionsRééditionCordonnetDuetto MoonIn current collection An all-new women’s line replacing the old “Lady” naming, and a deliberate break from the golden ratio: the One is a slim 2:1 rectangle, echoing the narrow ladies’ Reversos of the 1930s. Launched as Réédition, Cordonnet and Duetto Moon. 2016 ### Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano **Calibre**Cal. 854A/2 **Case**Tribute Casa Fagliano strapPolo reference190 pieces Straps hand-made by the Argentine polo bootmaker Casa Fagliano, a direct, literal thread back to the field the watch was invented on. 2018 ### Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface **Calibre**Flying tourbillon **Case**Tribute 185th anniversary of the manufacture50 pieces Built for Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own 185th anniversary: the Duoface’s second dial and a flying tourbillon fused into one 50-piece run. 2021 ### Reverso Hybris Mechanica Cal. 185 Quadriptyque **Calibre**Cal. 185 **Case**Grande 4 display faces11 complications12 patentsPerpetual calendarMinute repeaterFlying tourbillon10 pieces The most complicated Reverso ever built and the world’s first wristwatch with four functioning display faces. Eleven complications: perpetual calendar and flying tourbillon on the main dial, minute repeater with a digital jumping hour on the second face, and a triple-cycle astronomical display (synodic, draconic and anomalistic) set into the cradle itself. Twelve patents. 2021 ### Reverso Tribute Nonantième **Calibre**Cal. 826 **Case**Grande Moon phaseDigital jumping hourDay/nightStar-field back190 pieces 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. 2023 ### Reverso Tribute Chronograph **Calibre**Cal. 860 **Case**Tribute ChronographDouble-sided displayIn current collection Twenty-seven years after the Chronographe Rétrograde, the chronograph returns: cal. 860 integrating a chronograph with a double-sided time display in a case under 12 mm thick, despite over 300 components. Steel or pink gold. VI 2024 – 2026  ·  8 entries ## Polo Club & the Valley of Inventions The most recent chapters, and the one still being written. 2023 / 2025 ### Reverso Hybris Artistica Cal. 179 **Calibre**Cal. 179 Rare craftsWhite gold, 2025Limited edition A Hybris Artistica piece built around the case-back as a canvas for the Métiers Rares atelier, reissued in white gold in the 2025 line-up. 2025 ### Reverso Tribute Geographic **Calibre**Cal. 834 **Case**Tribute World timeGrande DateNew movementIn current collection World time returns to the Reverso for the first time since the 1998 Géographique, solved for a rectangle with a new in-house calibre and a patented Grande Date. Steel joined the standing catalogue; pink gold was capped at 150. 2025 ### Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater **Calibre**Cal. 953 **Case**Tribute Minute repeaterOpen-worked7 new patentsLimited edition An entirely new integrated repeater movement, shown open-worked through the back, earning seven new patents on the way to market. Evidence that the hardest Reverso complications are still being developed, not just reissued. 2025 ### Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds **Calibre**Hand-wound **Case**7.56 mm thick Time + small secondsMilanese braceletIn current collection A slim single-faced Tribute, no second dial and no case-back complication, offered in gold on a Milanese mesh bracelet. 2025 ### Reverso Tribute Duoface Small Seconds **Calibre**Cal. 854 **Case**Tribute Dual time24-hour day/nightIn current collection The 1994 Duoface reinterpreted in pure black or vivid blue, gaining a small-seconds register up front and a 24-hour day/night display on the reverse. 2026 ### Reverso Classic Small Monoface **Calibre**Updated hand-wound **Case**35.78 × 21 × 7.4 mm Vintage proportionsMonofaceIn current collection A deliberate return to vintage scale, closer to the sizes worn in the 1930s, when even men’s watches were slim. Part of a 2026 core-collection refresh alongside an updated Tribute Small Seconds. 2026 ### Reverso One — La Vallée des Merveilles **Calibre**Cal. 846 **Case**Reverso One EnamelPaillonnageGem-settingLacquer20 pieces each The first capsule of a new series celebrating natural scenery: three Reverso One pieces inspired by Hawaii and Japan — “Hibiscus Syriacus” and “Hibiscus Rosa” with hummingbirds, in pink or white gold, with mother-of-pearl dials. 2026 ### Reverso Tribute Enamel Hokusai “Waterfalls”, final four **Calibre**Cal. 822 **Case**45.6 × 27.4 mm, white gold Grand feu enamel14 enamel layersFlinqué dials10 pieces each The completion of an eight-artwork cycle begun in 2021: the last four of Hokusai’s *A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces*, each miniature built from fourteen layers of enamel, roughly 100 hours per watch, on hand-guilloché flinqué dials. Keep It Growing ## Know one we've missed? Regional exclusives, boutique specials, references we haven't traced yet — this list is built to be extended. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/calibres Summary: Around fifty calibres built for the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso since 1931, from the Tavannes 064 to the Gyrotourbillon, the Quadriptyque and cal. 953. Updated: 2026-10-29 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Calibres # The wrong shape for everything. Watchmaking is built around the circle. Gear trains are round, balance wheels are round, repeater gongs want to be coiled circles. The Reverso is a rectangle that turns over — and the fifty-odd movements built to live inside it are the record of what happens when a house refuses to accept that as a limitation. Fifty Movements, One Problem Since 1931, Jaeger-LeCoultre has created around fifty different calibres for the Reverso alone — from the smallest mechanisms it makes to some of the most complicated, each one moulded to the shape of a watch that has to work upside down and back to front. What follows is not a spec sheet. It is the order in which the problems were solved. I 1931 – 1933  ·  2 calibres ## Borrowed Time For its first two years the most famous rectangular watch in the world ran on somebody else’s movement. ### Tavannes cal. 064 1931–1933 Manual · rectangular · bought-in Reverso first series; Reverso De Luxe The Reverso began life powered by a competitor, and the contract shows it was planned that way: Article 14 of the 1931 agreement expressly allowed movements from Tavannes, Movado or Jaeger/LeCoultre, while stating that a special movement “completely suited” to Chauvot’s case would follow. It had to. LeCoultre’s round calibres were too small for the rectangle and the Duoplan, its own finest shaped movement and the obvious candidate, was too thick. So Tavannes *calibre 064* ran in the gentlemen’s watches and *calibre 050* in the smaller ladies’ model, both without seconds, until about the end of 1932. Fritz calls it the one moment in the manufacture’s history when the maker of fine movements *par excellence* lacked the right calibre for its own watch. ### The Duoplan (why nothing fitted) 1925 Two-storey architecture · large balance in a small movement Not a Reverso calibre — the reason the Reverso needed Tavannes The movement that explains the Reverso’s awkward first two years. Devised by Henri Rodanet, Jaeger’s technical director in Paris, and industrialised by LeCoultre at Le Sentier, the Duoplan stacked the movement across two levels (barrel and wheel train below, balance on the tier above), freeing space for a balance wheel far larger than a small movement could otherwise carry, and with it a precision nobody had managed at that size. It was radical, celebrated, and far too thick for Chauvot’s sliding case. So the watch that prefigured the Reverso’s spirit of rethinking received wisdom was the very movement that could not go inside it. II 1933 – 1948  ·  4 calibres ## The House Rectangles Eleven different movements powered the pre-war Reverso. These are the ones that mattered. ### LeCoultre cal. 11U / 410 from 1933 Manual · 15 jewels · 18,000 vph · ~50 h Reverso with subsidiary seconds at 6 The movement the 1931 contract had promised: one “completely suited” to Chauvot’s case. Two years from problem to production movement is fast, which tells you how quickly the watch had succeeded, and it marked LeCoultre’s breakthrough, after almost a century as a barely-known maker of fine movements, into selling complete watches under its own name. Collectors can date a vintage Reverso quite precisely from the many small changes made to the calibre 11 family over the years. The modern cal. 822 was drawn, six decades later, to look deliberately like this one. ### Cal. 413 1937 Manual · small seconds Reverso 1937 small seconds The manufacture’s fourth in-house Reverso movement, and a useful dating tool: watches carrying it have black dials signed *Jaeger-LeCoultre* (the first year the merged name appeared), which pins them precisely to 1937. ### LeCoultre cal. 411 from 1933 Manual · centre seconds Reverso with sweeping centre seconds The 410’s twin, released simultaneously with a sweeping centre seconds hand instead of a subsidiary dial. Many variants followed; eleven distinct movements powered the Reverso before production stopped in the late 1940s. ### Cal. 437/1 and P437/1 c.1947 Manual · centre seconds Reverso “Interchangeable / Reversible” The pair fitted to the late-1940s two-part-case Reverso, a little-documented variant in pink gold and steel with a centre seconds hand. Two consecutive examples surfaced together at auction in 2011, which is how the pairing of the 437/1 and P437/1 is known at all. III 1972 – 1991  ·  6 calibres ## The Movements That Came Back A calibre borrowed from an oval watch restarted the whole line, and its descendant still runs the smallest Reversos made today. ### Cal. 840 — “the Ovetto movement” 1972 Manual · oval The 200-piece Corvo Reverso The most consequential borrowed movement in the line’s history. When the manufacture told Giorgio Corvo it couldn’t build watches from 200 orphaned cases because there were no movements, he took the oval cal. 840 from the Ovetto, had a Milanese watchmaker build a spacer to seat it inside a Reverso case, and carried it back to Switzerland as proof. The Reverso exists today because an oval movement fitted a rectangular hole well enough to win an argument. ### Cal. 846 / 846/1 late 1980s – today Manual · 21,600 vph · 18 jewels · 93 parts · ~40 h Reverso Classique, Lady, Classic Small, Reverso One 2026 An evolution of the calibre used in the Corvo revival, and one of the great survivors: tiny, thin, beautifully made, and still running the smallest Reversos in the current catalogue nearly forty years later. ### Cal. 822 1991 – today Manual · rectangular Grande Taille, Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931, Classic Medium, Tribute Small Seconds, Hokusai enamels Built for the larger Grande Taille case in 1991 and drawn to echo the 1930s cal. 410, a modern movement wearing a period face. It is now the workhorse behind some of the most beautiful watches in the line, including the enamel Tributes, where a thin, reliable, well-proportioned movement matters more than a complication. ### Cal. 657 — the quartz years 1980s–2010s Quartz Reverso Classique, Reverso One (early), Reverso II Easy to skip past, but part of the story: the Reverso came back from the dead in 1982 as a mostly quartz watch, and quartz kept it in the catalogue while the mechanical revival was rebuilt around it. The 657 ran the smaller Classique and the earliest Reverso One references before hand-wound movements displaced it. ### Cal. 101 — the smallest of all 1929 – today Manual · 98 parts · c.0.2 g · 21,600 vph Reverso Joaillerie (c.1990); Grande Reverso 101 (2004) Not designed for the Reverso, and older than it, but no list of its movements is complete without the 101. Introduced in 1929 and still made today, it remains the smallest mechanical movement ever put into series production: 98 components weighing about a fifth of a gram. In the jewellery Reversos the winding crown moves to the back of the case, because there is no room for it anywhere else. ### Cal. 960, 970 and 977 — the automatics 1998 – 2012 Automatic Gran’Sport; Grande Automatique; Squadra Hometime The Reverso is overwhelmingly a hand-wound watch, for the obvious reason that a rotor adds height to a case that has to slide and turn. The exceptions came with the sportier families: the Gran’Sport of 1998 brought the first automatics to the line, and the Squadra and Grande Automatique carried them into the 2000s. IV 1994 – today  ·  5 calibres ## One Movement, Two Faces The engineering problem that defines the modern Reverso: driving a dial on each side of a case that turns over. ### Cal. 854 (854/1, 854A/2, 854C/2) 1994 – today Manual · two dials · ~42 h Duoface, Tribute Duoface, Classic Duoface, Fagliano The defining modern Reverso movement. One gear train, two dials on opposite sides of a case that pivots: local time on the front, a second time zone on the back, no second movement, no compromise in thickness. Thirty years on it is still being reinterpreted rather than replaced. ### Cal. 844 / 864 / 842 / 968 1994 – today Manual · dual dial, women’s sizes Duetto, One Duetto, Classic Duetto, Squadra Lady Duetto The Duoface idea shrunk. The engineering challenge is the same but the tolerances are meaner: two dials driven by one movement inside a case narrow enough for a 2:1 rectangle. The 842 adds a moon phase; the 864A powers the Ultra Thin Duetto Duo. ### Cal. 865 and 864 1997 – 2000s Manual · dual dial, women’s Reverso Duetto (1997); Ultra Thin Duetto Duo (864A) The movements that made the Duetto work: the Duoface principle in a case narrow enough for a woman’s wrist, with a discreet dial for daytime and a decorative one for evening running off a single train. ### Cal. 853 and 976 2016 – today Manual · time only Reverso Tribute Small Seconds; Grande Reverso 976 The plain hand-wound movements behind the simplest modern Tributes: no complication, nothing to display on the back, which is exactly the point when the case-back is meant to be left blank for the owner. ### Cal. 965, 966, 968 and 969 2009 – today Automatic and manual · women’s and mid-size Squadra Lady Duetto; Reverso Classic Medium and Large The workaday movements of the modern collection, the ones in most Reversos actually being sold, rather than the ones that get written about. The 968A drove the Squadra Lady Duetto; the 965 and 969 run Classic Medium and Large references today. V 1991 – 2011  ·  12 calibres ## The Complication Calibres A rectangle is the wrong shape for almost every complication in watchmaking. That turned out to be the point. ### Cal. 824 1991 Manual · power reserve · date Reverso 60ème The first complicated Reverso movement, and the first one JLC ever intended you to look at, the 60ème gave the watch a sapphire display back after sixty years of blank steel. ### Cal. 828 1993 Manual · tourbillon · power reserve Reverso Tourbillon JLC’s first modern tourbillon, and it went straight into the hardest available case. A tourbillon wants a round plate; fitting the cage, the bridges and the going train into a rectangle without thickening the watch is most of the work. ### Cal. 943 / 944 1994 / 2011 Manual · minute repeater Répétition Minutes; Répétition Minutes à Rideau The world’s first rectangular minute-repeater movement. Gongs are wound circles by nature; making them fit, and sing, in a rectangle is why almost nobody else tried. The 944 returned in 2011 with trebuchet hammers striking gongs fixed to the crystal itself. ### Cal. 829 1996 Manual · retrograde chronograph · 36 jewels Chronographe Rétrograde; Gran’Sport Chronograph (859) A chronograph organised across two faces, using a retrograde hand that flies back to zero rather than sweeping a full circle, the rational answer to a rectangular dial. Its logic reappears in the 2023 cal. 860. ### Cal. 879 / 873 / 874 / 875 2000–2003 Manual · double barrel · 8-day reserve · 28,800 vph Septantième, Grande 8 Days, Sun Moon, Grande Date Eight days of power from two barrels, married to a high-frequency balance, unusually long running time for a hand-wound watch this flat. The 879’s large-date architecture set up the entire Grande Reverso family, and its descendant cal. 834 powers the 2025 Tribute Geographic. ### Cal. 855 2000 Manual · perpetual calendar Reverso Quantième Calendrier Perpétuel Leap-year indication on the front, month, day, date and moon on the back, a perpetual calendar split across a case that turns over, closing the six-watch anniversary series. ### Cal. 823 and 823A 1999 – 2004 Manual · power reserve · moon phase · day/night Grande Taille Sun Moon; Power Reserve (823A) Three indications on one dial without crowding it: power reserve, moon phase, and a night-and-day display. The platinum Sun Moon it powered was capped at 125 pieces, the pink and white gold versions were standard production. ### Cal. 858 1998 Manual · dual time · city selector · day/night both faces Reverso Géographique (ref. 270.2.58) The Reverso’s first true travel movement: a second time zone with a city-name selector on the reverse and day/night indication on both faces. World time then left the collection for twenty-seven years, until the calibre 834 brought it back in 2025. ### Cal. 873, 874 and 875 2000 – 2003 Manual · 8-day double barrel · large date Grande 8 Days, Grande Date, Sun Moon variants The family that grew out of the Septantième’s 879: eight days of running from twin barrels, and the patented large-date display that gave the whole Grande Reverso line its identity. ### Cal. 849 — the ultra-thin 1990s – today Manual · 1.85 mm high · free-sprung balance Reverso à Éclipses; Ultra Thin SQ skeleton One of the flattest hand-wound movements in series production anywhere, and the reason certain Reversos can carry a shutter mechanism or a skeletonised dial without becoming thick. Where there is almost no room left, this is the movement that goes in. ### Cal. 944 2011 · revised 2021 Manual · minute repeater · trebuchet hammers · crystal gongs Répétition Minutes à Rideau; Tribute Minute Repeater (2021) The 943’s successor, and the movement behind two of the most theatrical Reversos ever made. Its trebuchet hammers strike gongs fixed directly to the sapphire crystal rather than the case, which is what gives it its carrying voice. Revised again in 2021 with a silent regulator and a new generation of gongs. ### Cal. 986 2009 Manual · dual dial · date · day/night Grande Reverso Duo Date A guilloché silver front with date at twelve and small seconds at six; a black reverse with luminous hands and a day/night indicator. Edition size is unsettled: an example at auction was numbered 286/500 against the 1,500 quoted elsewhere. VI 2006 – today  ·  8 calibres ## The Impossible Ones Three dials. Four faces. A tourbillon spinning on two axes. Movements built because nobody had built them. ### Cal. 175 2006 Manual · 3 displays · 18 functions · 6 patents Grande Complication à Triptyque The first movement ever to drive three dials: front, back, and a third set into the cradle the case pivots within. Civil time, sidereal time and perpetual calendar simultaneously, plus a tourbillon and an equation of time, from a single going train. ### Cal. 174 — Gyrotourbillon 2 2008 Manual · spherical multi-axis tourbillon · cylindrical hairspring Reverso Gyrotourbillon 2 Two carriages rotating on different axes (the inner one turning once every 18.75 seconds, the outer once a minute) inside a rectangle. It was the first wristwatch to use a cylindrical hairspring, and it won first and second place at the 2009 International Chronometry Competition. ### Cal. 179 — Tribute Gyrotourbillon 2016 Manual · bi-axial flying tourbillon · Gyrolab balance Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon; Hybris Artistica The Gyrotourbillon shrunk by roughly a third in width and thickness versus 2008, now flying, with nothing bridging it from above, and with a hemispherical balance spring and the deliberately non-circular Gyrolab balance wheel, shaped to cut air resistance. ### Cal. 185 — Quadriptyque 2021 Manual · 4 faces · 11 complications · 12 patents Hybris Mechanica Cal. 185 Quadriptyque The most complicated movement ever fitted to a Reverso, and the only one in history to drive four working display faces. Perpetual calendar and flying tourbillon; minute repeater with a digital jumping hour; and three lunar cycles (synodic, draconic and anomalistic) displayed in the cradle. ### Cal. 826 2021 Manual · digital jumping hour · moon phase · day/night Reverso Tribute Nonantième Built new for the 90th anniversary to do something the case-back had never done: a semi-jumping digital hour beside a rotating minute disc and a day/night indicator, a second complication on the reverse rather than a repeat of the front. ### Cal. 953 2025 Manual · integrated minute repeater · 7 patents Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater A wholly new integrated repeater movement, open-worked so the striking train is the view, with seven new patents. Thirty-one years after the world’s first rectangular repeater, the problem is evidently still interesting. ### Cal. 860 2023 Manual · chronograph · 300+ parts · double-sided Reverso Tribute Chronograph Takes its cue from the 1996 cal. 829 and integrates a chronograph with a double-sided time display, over 300 components in a case under 12 mm thick. ### Cal. 834 2025 Manual · world time · Grande Date (patented) Reverso Tribute Geographic A descendant of the 8-day 879, re-engineered to put world time into a rectangle for the first time since 1998, with a patented large-date display that had defeated earlier attempts at this size. Still Being Written ## Two new calibres in the last two years. Cal. 953 in 2025 earned seven patents; cal. 834 finally put world time in a rectangle. The hardest problems in this collection are evidently still open. [See the Models](https://myreversostory.com/models) --- Source: https://myreversostory.com/limited-editions Summary: 117 Reverso limited, market and anniversary editions with references, piece counts, calibres and materials — searchable, sortable and still growing. Updated: 2026-10-30 Publisher: My Reverso Story (https://myreversostory.com), an independent collector archive, not affiliated with Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Full List # Every limited edition we can trace. Anniversary series, market and retailer exclusives, special dials, boutique openings and the grand complications — whether or not the case-back was personalised. Sortable by any column, and built to keep growing. 1991 – 2000 ## The First Complications 6 Six watches, 500 pieces each, roughly one new complication every two years. The decade that turned a design classic into a horological platform — collectors treat the six as a single set. ### Reverso Grande Taille 60th Anniversary (60ème) Ref. 270.2.64 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 1991   **Calibre:** Cal. 824 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International The watch that created the Grande Taille case. Power reserve and date, and the first Reverso ever given a transparent case-back so the movement could be seen. ### Reverso Grande Taille Tourbillon Ref. 270.2.68 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 1993   **Calibre:** Cal. 828 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first modern tourbillon, and it went straight into the rectangle. ### Reverso Grande Taille Minute Repeater Ref. 270.2.73 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 1994   **Calibre:** Cal. 943 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International The world’s first rectangular minute-repeater movement. ### Reverso Grande Taille Retrograde Chronograph Ref. 270.2.69 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 1996   **Calibre:** Cal. 829 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International A chronograph split across two dials with a retrograde hand — the sensible answer to a rectangular face. ### Reverso Grande Taille Geographic Ref. 270.2.58 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 1998   **Calibre:** Cal. 858 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International World time with a city selector on the back; not revisited until the 2025 Tribute Geographic. ### Reverso Grande Taille Perpetual Calendar Ref. 270.2.55 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 2000   **Calibre:** Cal. 855 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International The sixth and final watch of the anniversary series, released for the millennium. 2006 – today ## Hybris Mechanica 7 The maison’s programme for its most extreme mechanics, and the hardest things anyone has fitted into a rectangle: three and four working faces, spherical and multi-axis tourbillons, striking movements. ### Reverso Grande Complication à Triptyque **Run:** 75 pieces **Year:** 2006   **Calibre:** Cal. 175 **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International The 75th-anniversary watch: three dials from one movement, 18 functions, six patents. ### Reverso Gyrotourbillon 2 **Run:** 75 pieces **Year:** 2008   **Calibre:** Cal. 174 **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International Spherical multi-axis tourbillon; first wristwatch with a cylindrical hairspring. ### Reverso Répétition Minutes à Rideau **Run:** Limited **Year:** 2011   **Calibre:** Cal. 944 **Material:** Gold **Market:** International A minute repeater behind a sliding curtain, with trebuchet hammers. ### Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon **Run:** 75 pieces **Year:** 2016   **Calibre:** Cal. 179 **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International 85th anniversary. Bi-axial flying tourbillon, ~30% smaller than the 2008 Gyrotourbillon 2. ### Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater **Run:** 10 pieces **Year:** 2021   **Calibre:** Cal. 944 (revised) **Material:** 18k pink gold **Market:** International 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. ### Hybris Mechanica Cal. 185 Quadriptyque **Run:** 10 pieces **Year:** 2021   **Calibre:** Cal. 185 **Material:** White gold **Market:** International 90th anniversary. Four working faces, eleven complications, twelve patents. ### Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater Ref. Q7122480 **Run:** 30 pieces **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Cal. 953 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International 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. 2012 – today ## Hybris Artistica 5 Where a grand complication is handed to the rare-crafts atelier — mechanism and decoration in the same watch, rather than one serving the other. ### Hybris Artistica 8 — Grande Reverso Tourbillon Squelette **Run:** Very limited **Year:** 2013   **Calibre:** Skeletonised tourbillon **Material:** — **Market:** International The reversible half of the case turned transparent rather than removed: both faces are sapphire crystal tiles, so the fully skeletonised, hand-decorated tourbillon movement is visible from either side as the case swivels — the tourbillon beating at six, the mainspring uncoiling in its barrel at twelve. The movement sits in a metal frame that appears to float inside the case. Since the Reverso’s outline isn’t round, water resistance on a sapphire-tile case of this kind is a genuine engineering problem rather than a routine spec. ### Hybris Artistica 9 — Reverso Cordonnet Neva Ref. 22233x1 **Run:** Very limited **Year:** 2014   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Gold, snow-set diamonds **Market:** International A 1930s cord-strap Reverso reinterpreted almost entirely in diamonds: hundreds of stones of varying diameter, snow-set across the dial, case, lugs and even the cord itself, pressed edge to edge with no visible claws so the surface reads as continuously smooth. Each stone is set individually and held in place only by tension against its neighbours — the setter works from personal judgement rather than a fixed plan, so the final pattern isn’t known until the last stone goes in. On the gold case the effect is meant to suggest the Neva river rippling beneath winter ice. ### Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 Ref. Q39424E3 **Run:** 10 pieces **Year:** 2023   **Calibre:** Cal. 179 — flying Gyrotourbillon **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International The fastest Gyrotourbillon the manufacture has built — the inner cage turns once every 16 seconds, the outer frame once a minute, 123 components floating on a ring of ball bearings between the two dials. Duoface on the reverse, showing a second time zone and 24-hour indicator. The front dial’s Art Deco lattice in gold, black and grey lacquer echoes the original 1931 case; the reverse is fully skeletonised and hand-bevelled, roughly 14 hours of finishing on the tourbillon cage alone. ### Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 Ref. Q39434E1 **Run:** Limited **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Cal. 179 — flying Gyrotourbillon **Material:** White gold **Market:** International 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. ### Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 “Pegasus” Ref. Q39424E5 **Run:** 5 pieces **Year:** 2026   **Calibre:** Cal. 179 — flying Gyrotourbillon **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International 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. 2006 – today ## Reverso à Éclipses 3 A miniature shutter over the case-back, opened by a wheel beside the crown, concealing a painted enamel beneath. The only Reverso whose decoration has to be unveiled twice. [Reverso à Éclipses — Famous Nudes**Run:** Platinum (3–10 pieces) or pink gold (5 pieces) per subject **Year:** 2006–   **Calibre:** Cal. 849 **Material:** Platinum or pink gold **Market:** InternationalIngres, Klimt, Renoir, Botticelli and more, each reproduced in enamel behind a sliding shutter on the dial rather than the case-back — the largest theme within the Éclipses range. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse) [Reverso à Éclipses — Voyages et Découvertes**Run:** Platinum (3 pieces) or pink gold (5 pieces) per subject **Year:** 2006–   **Calibre:** Cal. 849 **Material:** Platinum or pink gold **Market:** InternationalNamed cities and landmarks — New York, Singapore, Constantinople, the Great Wall, the Silk Road, La Rochelle — hidden behind the same Éclipses shutter mechanism. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse) [Reverso à Éclipses — Grand Feu**Run:** Varies by piece **Year:** 2006–   **Calibre:** Cal. 849 **Material:** Pink or rose gold **Market:** InternationalNamed-artist single subjects and one-off commissions — Malevich, Van Gogh, a Mughal miniature theme, and Zep’s unique Titeuf piece — plus the Chinese Zodiac design. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-a-eclipse) 2018 – today ## Métiers Rares 16 The case-back as a canvas — grand feu enamel, miniature painting, guillochage, paillonnage. Each set below is catalogued piece by piece on the Stories page. [Reverso “Étoile du Matin et Clair de Lune” — Alfons MuchaRef. 276 14 01 (M) / 276 14 02 (M)**Run:** 25 sets of 2 **Year:** 1996   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** 18k yellow gold **Market:** InternationalEnamelled on both dial and case-back — by the enameller Miklos Merczel’s own account, this may be where his entire Reverso enamel practice began. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-etoile-clairdelune)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-etoile-clairdelune) [Reverso “Four Seasons” — Alfons Mucha, 1996Ref. 276.1.62**Run:** 25 sets of 4 (100 watches) **Year:** 1996   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** 18k yellow gold **Market:** InternationalJaeger-LeCoultre’s first enamelled Reverso, and the only Reversos ever built with a genuinely enamelled dial. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-four-seasons-1996)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-four-seasons-1996) [Reverso “Aurore et Crépuscule” — Alfons Mucha, 1999Ref. 276.1.62**Run:** 25 sets of 2 (50 watches) **Year:** 1999   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** 18k yellow gold **Market:** InternationalDawn and dusk, from Mucha’s 1899 panels of the same name, sold together rather than separately. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-aurore-crepuscule)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-aurore-crepuscule) [Reverso Montre de Poche “Pierres Précieuses” — Alfons Mucha**Run:** Production quantities not documented **Year:** 1999–2000   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 / 823 **Material:** 18k white or yellow gold, gem-set **Market:** InternationalNot a wristwatch — a full pocket watch, jewelled cradle and all. Topaz, Amethyst, Ruby, Emerald: Mucha’s four Precious Stones panels, all four made in enamel. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-precious-stones)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-precious-stones) [Reverso “Émail Friedrich” — Caspar David FriedrichRef. 246.1.15**Run:** 5 pieces per painting (10 watches) **Year:** 2002   **Calibre:** Cal. 875 · 8-day reserve **Material:** 18k yellow gold **Market:** InternationalTwo Romantic seascapes on an 8-day grande complication base — the first Reverso enamel set built on an opaline-over-guilloché finish. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/caspar-david-friedrich)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/caspar-david-friedrich) ### Reverso GT Email “Chemin de la Vérité” **Run:** 8 pieces **Year:** 2010   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Yellow gold **Market:** International An enamel miniature titled “The Path of Truth,” limited to eight pieces — little else about it is documented beyond the subject and edition size. [Reverso Tribute Enamel — Alfons MuchaRef. Q39334M1 / Q39314M2 / Q39314M3**Run:** 8 pieces per reference · 3 references **Year:** 2018   **Calibre:** Cal. 822A/2 **Material:** White gold (Summer) · yellow gold (Spring, Autumn) **Market:** InternationalSummer, Spring, and Autumn from Mucha’s "The Seasons" (1896) — Winter is the one panel left out, following a full four-piece set JLC made of the same theme back in 1996. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/alfons-mucha)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/alfons-mucha) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — Ferdinand HodlerRef. Q39334H1 / H2 / H3**Run:** 8 pieces per reference · 3 references **Year:** 2018   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalThree Swiss lake landscapes marking the centenary of the painter’s death, each dial hand-guillochéd and engraved before enamelling. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/hodler-tribute)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/hodler-tribute) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — Famous ArtistsRef. Q39334P1 / C1 / T1**Run:** 8 pieces per reference · 3 references **Year:** 2018   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalThe original trio: Seurat’s pointillism, Xu Beihong’s ink wash, Hokusai’s woodblock printing, each attempted in enamel miniature for the first time. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/famous-artists)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/famous-artists) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — Hokusai “Waterfalls”Ref. Q39334T3–T9**Run:** 10 pieces per reference · 9 references **Year:** 2018 – 2026   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalAn eight-year cycle reproducing every waterfall Hokusai printed, plus *The Great Wave*. Around fourteen layers of fired enamel per case-back, roughly 100 hours apiece. Full set catalogued on the Stories page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/hokusai)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/hokusai) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — “Hidden Treasures”**Run:** 10 pieces per reference · 3 references **Year:** 2021   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalKlimt, Van Gogh and Courbet — three paintings that were each lost and found again. Made for the Reverso’s 90th anniversary.](https://myreversostory.com/series/hidden-treasures)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/hidden-treasures) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — Chinese ZodiacRef. Q39324K1 / D1 / D2 / D3**Run:** Made-to-order (Tiger, Dragon, Snake) · 10 pieces (Horse) **Year:** 2022–   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 / 822A/2 **Material:** 18k pink gold **Market:** Boutique onlyOne Lunar New Year animal at a time — Tiger, Dragon, Snake, Horse so far — each modelled-engraved into a caseback that was enamelled black first. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/chinese-zodiac)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/chinese-zodiac) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — Monet “Venice Series”Ref. Q39334M4–M6**Run:** 10 pieces per reference · 3 references **Year:** 2024   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalThree Monet views of Venice, made for the Homo Faber biennial — canvases over 65 × 92 cm reduced to a case-back.](https://myreversostory.com/series/monet-venice)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/monet-venice) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — “Turner Series”Ref. Q39334W1–W4**Run:** 10 pieces per reference · 4 references **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalVenice again, fifty years earlier and through English eyes. All four use paillonnage — silver foil laid beneath the enamel — to give the water its glint.](https://myreversostory.com/series/turner-venice)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/turner-venice) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — “Shahnameh”Ref. Q39334S1–S4**Run:** 10 pieces per reference · 4 references **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Gold **Market:** InternationalScenes from the 10th-century Persian Book of Kings — a miniature art form rendered in another miniature art form.](https://myreversostory.com/series/shahnameh)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/shahnameh) [Reverso Tribute Enamel — “Xu Beihong”Ref. Q39334B1–B3**Run:** 10 pieces per reference · 3 references **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** InternationalThree ink horses by Xu Beihong, each shrunk from over a square metre of paper to a case-back roughly 80 hours in the making.](https://myreversostory.com/series/xu-beihong)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/xu-beihong) 1990 – today ## Reverso Joaillerie 11 Diamond-set cases, jewelled cords, and the Reverso worn as something other than a wristwatch. ### The Tri-Colour Gold Bracelet Reverso **Run:** Unique / very rare **Year:** 1935   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Tri-colour gold (yellow, pink, white) **Market:** International An unusually early Reverso built with an integrated bracelet rather than a strap, its case and links combining yellow, pink, and white gold — a tri-colour treatment more commonly associated with later 20th-century jewellery watches than with a design only four years removed from its 1931 patent. Movement No. 61603, case No. 31935, dated by its numbering to 1935 itself. [Reverso Secret NecklaceRef. 465.110.001 (M) / 465.110.005 (M) and others**Run:** Unique / very limited **Year:** 1990s–2023   **Calibre:** Cal. 846 **Material:** Gold, gem-set **Market:** InternationalTwo distinct eras of the Reverso worn as a pendant: a 1990s cross-mounted “Reverso Pendentif” on a navy cord, and a 2023 Watches & Wonders High Jewellery bolo-cord version in several colourways. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/secret-necklace)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/secret-necklace) ### The Reverso Ring Watch Ref. 280.3.70 **Run:** Unique piece **Year:** 1998   **Calibre:** Keyless lever **Material:** Gold, diamond and emerald-set **Market:** International The Reverso concept as a ring rather than a wristwatch, sharing its reference with one of the calibre 101 pieces in the Les Folies bracelet family — catalogued in full as a Pièce Unique elsewhere in this archive, since it isn’t part of any numbered edition. ### Reverso, diamond and sapphire-set, mother-of-pearl dial **Run:** Unknown **Year:** 2004   **Calibre:** — **Material:** 18k white gold, diamond and sapphire-set **Market:** International 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. ### Grande Reverso 101 Art Déco Ref. 240.3.70 **Run:** 5 pieces **Year:** 2011   **Calibre:** Cal. 101 **Material:** White gold **Market:** International 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. [Reverso One Cordonnet Jewellery**Run:** Limited **Year:** 2013–2021   **Calibre:** Cal. 844 **Material:** Gold, pavé diamonds **Market:** InternationalThe 1930s silk cord reimagined in gold and pavé diamonds — a 2021 Duetto case with mother-of-pearl and onyx dials, and an earlier 2013 diamond rope-bracelet piece with lapis lazuli and pavé dials. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/cordonnet-jewellery)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/cordonnet-jewellery) [Reverso One “Precious Flowers”Ref. Q3292422 and others**Run:** 10 pieces per reference **Year:** 2021 – 2024   **Calibre:** Reverso One **Material:** White or pink gold **Market:** InternationalFloral case-backs combining three rare crafts at once — enamelling, hand engraving and gem-setting — rather than showcasing one.](https://myreversostory.com/series/precious-flowers)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/precious-flowers) [Reverso One “Precious Colours”**Run:** Limited **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Reverso One **Material:** Gold, gem-set **Market:** InternationalThe colour-led companion to Precious Flowers, organised around stone and hue rather than botanical subject.](https://myreversostory.com/series/precious-colours)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/precious-colours) [Reverso One “La Vallée des Merveilles”**Run:** 20 pieces per reference **Year:** 2026   **Calibre:** Cal. 846 **Material:** Pink or white gold, mother-of-pearl **Market:** InternationalThe opening capsule of a nature series — hummingbirds over hibiscus, combining enamel, paillonnage, gem-setting and lacquer.](https://myreversostory.com/series/vallee-merveilles)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/vallee-merveilles) [Reverso 101 “Les Folies”Ref. 10 references — see full set**Run:** Quantities per reference not documented **Year:** c.1990–early 2000s   **Calibre:** Cal. 101 **Material:** Yellow, pink, or white gold, gem-set **Market:** InternationalThe Reverso built around the Guinness World Record calibre 101, where the bracelet’s own gem-set links rotate along with the case — ten confirmed references across yellow, pink and white gold, with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and one full multi-gem “rainbow” bracelet. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-101-les-folies)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/reverso-101-les-folies) ### Grande Reverso 101, diamonds and platinum Ref. 3006430 **Run:** Very limited **Year:** c.2005   **Calibre:** Cal. 101 **Material:** Platinum, diamond-set skeleton **Market:** International 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. 2001 – today ## Anniversary & Milestone Editions 9 Production models marking a birthday — the Reverso’s own, or the manufacture’s. ### Reverso Septantième (70ème) **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 2001   **Calibre:** Cal. 879 **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International Eight-day double barrel and the patented large date that opened the Grande Reverso chapter. ### Reverso Squadra Hometime Ref. Q7002671 / 230.2.77 (pink gold) · 230.8.77 (steel) **Run:** Limited (pink gold) · 50 pieces (steel) **Year:** 2006–   **Calibre:** Automatic **Material:** Pink gold or stainless steel **Market:** International A dual time-zone Squadra with date and day/night indication, made in both pink gold and steel — the steel version confirmed to a run of fifty pieces. ### Reverso Squadra Chronographe GMT Ref. 230.2.45 (pink gold) · 230.8.45 (steel) **Run:** 30 or 500 pieces in pink gold (sources disagree) · 100 pieces in steel **Year:** 2007–2010   **Calibre:** Cal. 754 **Material:** Pink gold or stainless steel **Market:** International A large automatic dual-time chronograph on the squarer Squadra case rather than the classic Reverso silhouette, certified under JLC’s own 1000 Hours Control testing programme. 50 x 35 mm, 39 jewels. Two auction houses cite the pink gold reference with very different figures — Antiquorum records No. 14 of 30 pieces made in 2007, while Christie’s separately records No. 378 of a 500-piece run made in 2008 — which may mean two distinct production batches under one reference, or a transcription error at one house; we haven’t been able to resolve which. The steel version, ref. 230.8.45, runs to 100 pieces. ### Reverso Squadra World Chronograph Ref. 231.T.50 **Run:** 1,500 pieces **Year:** 2008   **Calibre:** Automatic **Material:** Titanium **Market:** International A double-dialled world time automatic chronograph with date and day/night indication, on titanium rather than the more usual precious metal or steel. ### Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano **Run:** 190 pieces **Year:** 2016 / 2021   **Calibre:** Cal. 854A/2 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International Straps by the Argentine polo bootmaker Casa Fagliano. Reissued for the 90th anniversary. ### Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface Ref. Q3926480 **Run:** 50 pieces **Year:** 2018   **Calibre:** Cal. 847, flying tourbillon **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International For the manufacture’s own 185th anniversary. ### Reverso Tribute Nonantième **Run:** 190 pieces **Year:** 2021   **Calibre:** Cal. 826 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International 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. ### Reverso Tribute Chronograph, “full pink gold” Ref. Q389256J **Run:** 250 pieces **Year:** 2024   **Calibre:** Cal. 860 **Material:** Solid 18k pink gold — case, dial, bridges, indexes, buckle **Market:** International 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. ### Reverso Tribute Geographic, pink gold **Run:** 150 pieces **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** Cal. 834 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International World time returns to the Reverso. The steel version joined the standing catalogue; gold was capped at 150. 1990s – today ## Commemorative & Partnership Editions 22 A club, a city, a boutique opening, an artist, a television series. What qualifies here is that the back was given a meaning. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Juventus 100th” Ref. 270.3.62 (also seen as 275.3.62) **Run:** 100 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold **Market:** Italy For the centenary of Juventus F.C. Reference discrepancy: sources give both 270.3.62 and 275.3.62. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Torino F.C. 100th” Ref. 270.2.62 **Run:** 25 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** Italy The other Turin club, and far rarer than the Juventus edition — 25 against 100. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Wempé 125th”, pink gold Ref. 270.2.44 **Run:** 25 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** Germany For the 125th anniversary of the German retailer Wempe. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Wempé 125th”, steel Ref. 270.8.44 **Run:** 100 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Germany The steel companion to the pink-gold Wempe anniversary piece. ### Reverso GT “Darren Romanelli — 75th Anniversary” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** 50 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Colette, Paris A collaboration with designer Darren Romanelli for the Reverso’s 75th anniversary, sold through the Paris concept store Colette. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin “Tribute to 1931” New York Skyline **Run:** 3 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** New York Three pieces. The engraving came from an advertisement JLC ran in The New Yorker announcing a boutique opening. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Batman Forever” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** 35 pieces (30 steel, 5 gold) — not for sale **Year:** 1995   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel or 18k yellow gold **Market:** United States 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. ### “Orgueil du Valais” (Pride of Valais) Ref. 250386 **Run:** 65 pieces **Year:** 1996   **Calibre:** Cal. 846 **Material:** White gold **Market:** Switzerland The same 1996 anniversary, engraved instead with the Matterhorn — the peak most associated with the Valais region and with Switzerland abroad. [Reverso / Arte PortuguesaRef. Various**Run:** 20–40 pieces per edition · 5 artists **Year:** 2000–2012   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 / 822/2 **Material:** White gold, pink gold, or steel **Market:** PortugalFive Portuguese artists over twelve years — Júlio Pomar, Manuel Cargaleiro, Paula Rego, José de Guimarães, Julião Sarmento — each given the Reverso case-back as a canvas. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/arte-portuguesa)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/arte-portuguesa) ### Reverso Grande Taille Enamel “Ferrari” Ref. 276.1.62 **Run:** Unknown, likely small **Year:** 2003   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Yellow gold **Market:** Italy The prancing horse enamelled onto the case-back, on the same case reference used elsewhere for the Mucha enamel sets. ### Reverso Grande Automatique, Royal Windsor Horse Show Ref. Q3038120 **Run:** 5 pieces **Year:** 2005   **Calibre:** Automatic **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** United Kingdom A steel automatic dual-time Reverso with date, made for the Royal Windsor Horse Show — one of the smallest runs in this archive. ### Reverso in the colours of AC Milan **Run:** For club staff and players **Year:** 2011   **Calibre:** — **Material:** — **Market:** AC Milan Made by the Métiers Rares craftsmen in the club’s red and black; a separately personalised piece was made for Adriano Galliani. ### Grande Reverso 976 “Guillermo Ceniceros” Ref. Q373847M / Q373247M **Run:** 50 pieces steel · 10 pieces rose gold **Year:** 2011   **Calibre:** Cal. 976 **Material:** Stainless steel or rose gold **Market:** Mexico 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. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to “Mad Men” **Run:** 25 pieces **Year:** 2012   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** North America 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. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931 “The Dark Knight Rises” Ref. 277.8.62 **Run:** 10 pieces — not for sale **Year:** 2012   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** International 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. ### Reverso “Les Magritte du Cinéma 2014” **Run:** Presentation pieces, not retailed **Year:** 2014   **Calibre:** — **Material:** — **Market:** Belgium 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. ### Grande Reverso “OSESP 60 Anos” **Run:** 50 watches reported **Year:** 2014   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Steel or gold **Market:** Brazil 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. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin 1931 “London Edition” Ref. Q278853L **Run:** 26 pieces **Year:** 2015   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Bond Street boutique For the opening of the Bond Street boutique, sold only there, in person. ### Reverso in tribute to René Magritte, Series 1 — “La Trahison des images” **Run:** 20 pieces total — 5 white gold, 15 steel **Year:** 2016   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White gold and stainless steel **Market:** Maison De Greef, Brussels 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. ### Reverso in tribute to René Magritte, Series 2 — “L’Oiseau de Ciel” Ref. Q3828420 **Run:** 33 pieces **Year:** 2017   **Calibre:** Cal. 822/2 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Maison De Greef, Brussels 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. ### Reverso Tribute to Piet Mondriaan (De Stijl / Steltman centenary) **Run:** 25 pieces **Year:** 2017   **Calibre:** Cal. 822/2 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Steltman, The Hague 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. ### Reverso Tribute “YPO” **Run:** 38 pieces steel · 12 pieces pink gold **Year:** 2025   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Stainless steel or pink gold **Market:** YPO members 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. 1990s – today ## Market & Retailer Editions 19 Made for a particular country or a particular shop — overwhelmingly for Japan, which asked for them constantly, and latterly for MR PORTER. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Seibu” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** Unknown **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Japan For the Japanese department store Seibu. The edition size has never been established. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Anshindo” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** 50 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Japan For the Japanese retailer Anshindo. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Japan” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** 150 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Japan A market edition for Japan — evidence of how important that market was to the Reverso in this period. [Grande Taille Duoface “Première”Ref. 270.1.54 / 270.8.54**Run:** 39 pieces (gold) · 300 pieces (steel), ×3 colours **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 854 **Material:** Yellow gold or stainless steel **Market:** JapanThree dial colours — green, red and blue — for the Japanese market, each issued in both yellow gold (39 pieces) and steel (300 pieces): six watches in total. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/gt-duoface-premiere)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/gt-duoface-premiere) ### Reverso Grande Taille Duoface “Hayashi” Ref. 272.8.54 **Run:** 30 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 854 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Japan For the Japanese retailer Hayashi, on the second-generation Duoface case — thirty pieces. ### Grande Reverso Night & Day “Rio de Janeiro” Ref. Q380848M **Run:** 85 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 967B **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Brazil 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. ### Reverso 1931 “King Rama IX of Thailand” Ref. Q380841G **Run:** 39 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 967B **Material:** — **Market:** Thailand 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. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931 “Dubai Expo” **Run:** Unknown, likely small **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Manual-winding **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** United Arab Emirates Made to mark Expo 2020 Dubai — one of relatively few Reverso editions tied to a World’s Fair. ### Reverso “Geneva Fountain” Ref. 257.342.626 / 270.3.62 **Run:** 50 pieces — 30 yellow gold, 20 white gold **Year:** 1995   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Yellow or white gold **Market:** Switzerland 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. ### Reverso “Helvetia” Ref. 250.340.867 H **Run:** 150 pieces **Year:** 1997   **Calibre:** Cal. 846 **Material:** 18k white gold **Market:** Switzerland 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. ### Reverso “Greater China” Special Edition Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** 97 pieces **Year:** 1997   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Hong Kong / China For the 1997 Hong Kong handover: a tri-colour enamelled map of Greater China on the case-back, with dual English/Chinese certificates. ### Reverso Grande Réserve, Série Boutique “Sincere”, 1954–2004 Ref. 240.8.14 **Run:** 50 pieces **Year:** 2006   **Calibre:** 8-day power reserve **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Singapore For Sincere, the Singapore watch retailer’s 50th anniversary, on the 8-day Grande Réserve platform rather than a simple three-hand base. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin “Italica” Ref. 277.8.62 (steel) / 277.1.62 (rose gold) **Run:** 150 pieces per metal **Year:** 2011   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel or rose gold **Market:** Italy 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. ### Grande Reverso Night & Day “Singapore SG50” Ref. Q3808420 **Run:** 50 pieces **Year:** 2015   **Calibre:** Cal. 967B **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Singapore 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. ### Grande Reverso 976 “25th Anniversary of Kuwait” Ref. 278.2.56 **Run:** 25 pieces **Year:** 2016   **Calibre:** Cal. 967B **Material:** Rose gold **Market:** Kuwait 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. ### Grande Reverso 976 “55th Anniversary of Kuwait” Ref. 278.8.56 **Run:** 55 pieces **Year:** 2016   **Calibre:** Cal. 967B **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Kuwait Marking 55 years since Kuwait’s independence from British protection: same green dial and flag palette, a single scarlet ‘55’ replacing the ‘5’. ### Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale “Wakaya” Ref. 278.3.66 (Q381357J) **Run:** Personal commission, presented rather than retailed **Year:** 2016   **Calibre:** Cal. 966A **Material:** 18k white gold **Market:** Fiji 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. ### Ultra Thin Grand Reverso “Tribute to St Barth” Ref. 277.2.62 **Run:** 15 pieces **Year:** 2016   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** Saint Barthélemy 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. [JLC × MR PORTER City EditionsRef. Q385852 + city letter**Run:** 8 cities across two waves **Year:** 2021 & 2023   **Calibre:** Cal. 822/2 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** MR PORTER exclusiveReverso Classic Monoface Small Seconds, each hand-engraved with a landmark of its city and delivered on a Casa Fagliano strap. New York led the first wave in 2021 (London, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong); Los Angeles, Singapore and Sydney followed in 2023. Full set catalogued on its own page.](https://myreversostory.com/series/mrporter-cities)[See the full set](https://myreversostory.com/series/mrporter-cities) 1992 – 2000s ## Special Dials & Precious Metals 19 Small runs distinguished by dial, finish or metal rather than by complication. ### GT Duoface “Double Gold A” Ref. 270.0.54 **Run:** 250 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 854 **Material:** White & pink gold **Market:** International Two golds in one case — white on one face, pink on the other. About as literal a use of the Duoface idea as the maison has attempted. ### GT Duoface “Double Gold B” Ref. 270.0.54 **Run:** 100 pieces **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 854 **Material:** Pink & white gold **Market:** International The inverse of Double Gold A, with the metals swapped. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Latitude 1” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** Unnumbered, unlimited **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** International The first of two Latitude dial variants. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Latitude 2” Ref. 270.8.62 **Run:** Unnumbered, unlimited **Year:** —   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** International The second Latitude variant, sharing its reference with the first. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Art Deco” (pink gold) Ref. 270.2.62 **Run:** Very small series **Year:** 1992   **Calibre:** Cal. 822, skeletonised **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International 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. ### Reverso Grande Taille “Art Deco” (white gold) Ref. 270.3.62 **Run:** Very small series **Year:** 1992   **Calibre:** Cal. 822, skeletonised **Material:** White gold **Market:** International The white gold counterpart, carrying its own reference. Same skeletonised, hand-engraved movement under a sapphire display back. ### Reverso “65th Anniversary, 1931–1996” Ref. 250.2.86 **Run:** 65 pieces **Year:** 1996   **Calibre:** Cal. 846 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International Marking 65 years since the Reverso’s 1931 patent, run-size matched to the anniversary number. ### Reverso Grande Taille Sun Moon, platinum Ref. 270.6.63 **Run:** 125 pieces **Year:** 1999   **Calibre:** Cal. 823 **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International Power reserve, moon phase and night-and-day. The platinum version was capped at 125; pink and white gold were standard production. ### Reverso “Theo Fennell” Ref. 270162 **Run:** 20 pieces **Year:** 2000   **Calibre:** — **Material:** Gold **Market:** United Kingdom A collaboration with the British jeweller, in a run of just twenty pieces. ### Reverso Grande Taille Platinum Number One Ref. 270.6.49 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 2001   **Calibre:** Skeletonised · cal. 849R-SQ **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International 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. ### Reverso Grande Taille Platinum Number Two Ref. 270.6.48 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 2003   **Calibre:** Tourbillon · cal. 848 **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own Collectibles listing (Hong Kong, 2026) dates it to 2003, with the tourbillon calibre 848. Some other sources give 2004. ### Reverso Grande Taille Platinum Squelette Ref. 270.6.48 **Run:** 35 pieces **Year:** 2005   **Calibre:** Skeletonised **Material:** Platinum **Market:** International Thirty-five pieces — one of the smallest Grande Taille runs of all, sharing its reference with Number Two. ### Grande Reverso 986 Duodate Ref. 274.8.85 **Run:** 1,500 pieces **Year:** 2009   **Calibre:** Automatic **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** International 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. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin “Tribute to 1931” Ref. Q2782521 / 277.2.62 **Run:** 500 pieces **Year:** 2011   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Rose gold **Market:** International 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. ### “Proto Zero” — Blue Enamel Prototype Ref. 273.3.62 **Run:** Unique prototype **Year:** 2011–2012   **Calibre:** — **Material:** White gold **Market:** Hong Kong 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. ### Grande Reverso Ultra Thin “Edition Spéciale Rouge” Ref. 277.8.62 / Q278856J **Run:** Unconfirmed **Year:** 2012   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Jaeger-LeCoultre boutiques 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. ### Grande Reverso “Email”, enamel guilloché dial Ref. 273.3.62 (white gold) · 273.2.62 (pink gold) **Run:** 50 pieces (white gold) · 200 pieces (pink gold) **Year:** 2013–2014   **Calibre:** Cal. 822 **Material:** White or pink gold **Market:** International 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. ### Atelier Reverso — Natural Stone Dials **Run:** Made to order (bespoke) **Year:** 2017   **Calibre:** Cal. 822/2 **Material:** Stainless steel **Market:** Boutique / app 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. ### Reverso Tribute Duoface, Casa Fagliano Ref. Q396245J **Run:** Limited **Year:** 2018   **Calibre:** Cal. 854 **Material:** Pink gold **Market:** International 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. References, calibres, years, piece counts and other information are compiled from different open sources and may still be inaccurate and incomplete. Help us update the information correctly so we can have documented fact. Keep It Growing ## This list is nowhere near finished. If you own or can document an edition that's missing, it belongs here. [Get In Touch](https://myreversostory.com/#submit)