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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
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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

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