https://myreversostory.com/stories First-hand stories from Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso collectors: what is on the back of their watch, and why. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:54:49 GMT https://myreversostory.com/stories/finesttastes-india https://myreversostory.com/stories/finesttastes-india Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:54:49 GMT @thefinesttastesclub 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-tourbillon https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-tourbillon Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:54:49 GMT @decowatches 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-mucha https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-mucha Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:33:29 GMT @jlc.reverso 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/win-duoface https://myreversostory.com/stories/win-duoface Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:38:40 GMT Win 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-wat-arun Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT @jlc.reverso 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/ian-cassar-spes https://myreversostory.com/stories/ian-cassar-spes Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT Ian Cassar 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/bird-little-reverso https://myreversostory.com/stories/bird-little-reverso Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT Bird 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/kitja-rouge https://myreversostory.com/stories/kitja-rouge Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT @wristwatch_kitja 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-tourbillon Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT @jlc.reverso 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-kuwait Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT @jlc.reverso 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-60eme https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-60eme Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT @jlc.reverso 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933 https://myreversostory.com/stories/jlc-reverso-1933 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:31:56 GMT @jlc.reverso 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-geographic Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:11:31 GMT Robin Tong Lin Wong 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-or-deco https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-or-deco Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:11:31 GMT Robin Tong Lin Wong 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/haoming-wang-tribute https://myreversostory.com/stories/haoming-wang-tribute Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:30:51 GMT Haoming Wang 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/sm-dragon https://myreversostory.com/stories/sm-dragon Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:30:51 GMT SM 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-gibson Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT @decowatches 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/george-mason-flower https://myreversostory.com/stories/george-mason-flower Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT A DC Watch Enthusiast 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait https://myreversostory.com/stories/paul-stewart-portrait Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT Paul Stewart 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/taylor-wos-wisdom https://myreversostory.com/stories/taylor-wos-wisdom Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT Taylor Wos 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/rashawn-smith-astonmartin https://myreversostory.com/stories/rashawn-smith-astonmartin Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT Rashawn Smith 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son https://myreversostory.com/stories/decowatches-son Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT @decowatches 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-second Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:26 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/sarp-titulescu https://myreversostory.com/stories/sarp-titulescu Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:24:46 GMT Sarp Vahabi 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/roni-jalaram https://myreversostory.com/stories/roni-jalaram Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:24:46 GMT Roni Madhvani 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-daughter Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:24:46 GMT Farhan Hussain 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-nonantieme https://myreversostory.com/stories/robin-nonantieme Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:24:46 GMT Robin Tong Lin Wong 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-son https://myreversostory.com/stories/farhan-son Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:24:46 GMT Farhan Hussain 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-goodbye-wave https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-goodbye-wave Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/randy-kamin-first-reverso https://myreversostory.com/stories/randy-kamin-first-reverso Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Randy Kamin 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-istanbul Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-chocolate-engraving Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-my-engraving https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-my-engraving Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-designed-watch Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-fagliano Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101 https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-101 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-linda-duoface Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-nonantieme Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-chronograph Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-lint https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-lint Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic https://myreversostory.com/stories/shipoli-geographic Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Edi, Deni & Brion Shipoli 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-scratch https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-scratch Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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. https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-repeater https://myreversostory.com/stories/mitch-repeater Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:01 GMT Mitch & Linda Katz 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.