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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
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# 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

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