The longest artistic project in the Reverso’s history. It began in 2018 with The Great Wave off Kanagawa, then turned to Hokusai’s eight-print series A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces — the first time falling water was treated as a subject in ukiyo-e, and one of the earliest uses of the then-new Prussian blue pigment. Jaeger-LeCoultre released them a few at a time across 2021, 2022, 2023 and finally 2026, completing all eight. Each case-back is built from around fourteen layers of enamel fired successively, roughly 100 hours per watch, reproducing a composition at about 2 cm² — including the original Japanese inscriptions at near-microscopic scale.
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The first Hokusai on a Reverso, and not part of the waterfalls cycle — the most reproduced image in Japanese art, reduced to the size of a case-back.
The first of the waterfalls series. “Kirifuri” means falling mist — the print shows tiny figures dwarfed by the cascade, a favourite Hokusai device for scale.
The most abstract print in the series: the water emerges from a near-perfect circle in the rock, said to resemble the head of the Amida Buddha.
A legend rather than a landscape: the warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune washing his horse at the falls in Yamato Province.
A traveller’s view from the old Kisokaidō highway, one of the two great routes between Edo and Kyoto.
Pilgrims purifying themselves beneath the falls at Ōyama — a site of ritual ablution, which Hokusai renders as bodies braced against falling water.
Named for the Kannon shrine beside it, on the Tōkaidō — the coastal road immortalised in Hiroshige’s fifty-three stations.
Subject of one of Japan’s best-known filial-piety legends, in which the falls run with sake for a devoted son.
The eighth and final print — and an urban one, a waterfall inside Edo itself, closing a cycle begun eight years earlier.