Before Hidden Treasures, before Hokusai’s Waterfalls, before Shahnameh or Xu Beihong’s horses came back in 2025 — there was this: the first Reverso trio built explicitly around reproducing three painting techniques never before attempted in enamel miniature at the manufacture. Pointillism, Chinese ink wash, and Japanese woodblock printing, each picked through one representative master and one representative work: Georges Seurat, Xu Beihong, and Katsushika Hokusai. Each dial is hand-guillochéd in a pattern that echoes its case-back — lozenges for Seurat, lengthwise geometric lines for Xu Beihong, small waves for Hokusai — under translucent Grand Feu enamel colour-matched to the painting behind it. Eight pieces of each, white gold, boutique-only.
Sources: GMT Post · Swisswatches Magazine
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Pointillism had never been attempted in enamel at the manufacture, so the enameller had to invent the tools for it — including an extremely fine, frequently-replaced brush. The original painting is nearly 2 by 3 metres and took Seurat two years and over 60 preparatory sketches; here it’s reduced to about 3 cm², painted in a deliberately darker shade than the source to compensate for the way the enamel’s protective top layers dull colour on firing. Roughly 70 hours of work, not counting the research to find the right colour balance. The dial’s lozenge guilloché sits under deep green translucent enamel.
A different Xu Beihong from the pair added to the archive in 2025: this one draws two horses out of an original painting over 5 metres wide, showing ten horses galloping through a landscape. Ink wash painting is built on movement and near-monochrome restraint, both of which fight against enamel’s glassy protective layers — the artisan had to find a way to keep the horses’ energy legible, down to individual strands of mane, while working in a palette close to black and white. The dial’s lengthwise guilloché sits under an opalescent ivory enamel meant to read like mother-of-pearl.
The same watch now also catalogued on the Hokusai Waterfalls series page — it carries the same Q39334T-prefix reference scheme as that later waterfall cycle, but it actually launched here, in 2018, as the third leg of this original artists’ trio, well before the waterfalls series existed. The dial’s small-wave guilloché sits under an ocean-deep blue enamel that has to read as calm sky and turbulent water in the same piece — by the enameller’s own account, the hardest of the three commissions, combining the fine detail of the Seurat with the compositional restraint of the Xu Beihong.