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
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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

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