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the Vallée de Joux, where ten master watchmakers overhaul each watch and missing components are recreated by hand from historical references or pulled from the archives.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)