Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/hidden-treasures
Summary: Three paintings that were all lost and found again. For the Reverso’s 90th anniversary, the Métiers Rares atelier reproduced three paintings chosen not only…
Updated: 2026-09-11
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Artistic Edition

# Reverso Tribute Enamel “Hidden Treasures”

Three paintings that were all lost and found again.

**Introduced**2021

**Crafts**Grand feu enamel · miniature painting · guillochage

**Edition size**10 pieces per reference

**Movement**Calibre 822

**Case**45.6 × 27.4 mm, white gold

**Pieces in set**3

For the Reverso’s 90th anniversary, the Métiers Rares atelier reproduced three paintings chosen not only for their beauty but for their provenance: each had vanished for decades and was assumed lost forever. The artists were picked because all three were active in the era that produced the Reverso itself — spanning 19th-century Realism, Post-Impressionism, and the Viennese Secession. Jaeger-LeCoultre approached the museums now holding the works to agree the interpretations and colours.

Sources: [Jaeger-LeCoultre](https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/us-en/news/watchmaking/reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures) · [Hodinkee — the enameller](https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/meet-the-woman-mastering-the-masters-for-jaeger-lecoultre) · [Quill & Pad](https://quillandpad.com/2022/02/05/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures-stories-of-lost-and-found/) · [Revolution](https://revolutionwatch.com/jaeger-lecoutre-introduces-the-reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures-collection/) · [Watchonista](https://www.watchonista.com/articles/closer-look/closer-look-jaeger-lecoultres-new-reverso-tribute-enamel-hidden-treasures-collection)

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### Klimt — “Portrait of a Lady”

Ref. Q39334K1

Gustav Klimt, 1917

The only known “double” portrait by Klimt, painted over an earlier one — a fact undiscovered until 1996, when art student Claudia Maga spotted that the underlying portrait had been missing since 1912. Klimt had reportedly fallen in love with a young woman who then died suddenly; he painted over her portrait to ease the loss. In the late 1990s the work was stolen days before an exhibition in Italy, and found shortly afterwards by a gardener — stuffed into a crevice in a stone wall under ivy, inside a waterproof bag, in perfect condition. On the watch, a barleycorn guilloché dial in green Grand Feu enamel echoes the painting’s background.

### Van Gogh — “Sunset at Montmajour”

Ref. Q39334V1

Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Painted near Arles in 1888 and long dismissed as not being by Van Gogh at all — it spent years in an attic after being declared a fake. It was finally authenticated in 2013, one of very few full-size Van Gogh canvases confirmed in modern times. The dial’s sunray guilloché in Grand Feu enamel plays against the case-back’s reproduction of the artist’s heavy impasto brushwork.

### Courbet — “View of Lake Leman”

Ref. Q39334C2

Gustave Courbet, 1876

Painted in the last years of Courbet’s life, in exile in Switzerland on the shore of Lake Geneva — within sight of the valley where the Reverso would be made half a century later. A herringbone guilloché dial in misty grey-blue Grand Feu enamel picks up the painting’s soft, atmospheric palette.

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