Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-etoile-clairdelune
Summary: Morning star and moonlight, both sides of the case enamelled — and, by the enameller’s own account, where his Reverso work began. A pairing of two Mucha…
Updated: 2026-09-11
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Artistic Edition

# Reverso “Étoile du Matin et Clair de Lune” — Alfons Mucha

Morning star and moonlight, both sides of the case enamelled — and, by the enameller’s own account, where his Reverso work began.

**Introduced**1996

**Crafts**Grand feu enamel dial and case-back, Miklos Merczel

**Edition size**25 sets of 2, in a wooden presentation box

**Movement**Calibre 822

**Case**26 × 42 mm, 18k yellow gold

**Pieces in set**2

A pairing of two Mucha allegories — *L’Étoile du Matin (The Morning Star) and *Clair de Lune* (Moonlight, 1902) — sold together in a limited run of 25 sets, each delivered in its own wooden presentation box. Christie’s has catalogued the same pairing in English as “The Moon and the Stars,” dating it to circa 1996 — the same year as JLC’s better-known Four Seasons set, making 1996 an unusually productive first year for Miklos Merczel’s enamel atelier rather than a single release. Unlike the later Aurore/Crépuscule pairing, where only the case-back carries the enamel miniature and the dial stays a plain printed white, both faces of these two watches are enamelled: dial and case-back alike, in grand feu. Merczel himself has said Clair de Lune was in fact his very first enamelled Reverso model — “I started enamelling the backgrounds of the Reverso, and my first model was Mucha’s ‘Clair de Lune’” — which would put it right at the start of the same year as the Four Seasons, rather than clearly before or after it. One auction house catalogued a single example of Clair de Lune as a run of 24 rather than 25; we’ve gone with the 25-set figure since it comes directly from Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own launch brochure and is corroborated by Christie’s cataloguing of the pair.*

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### “L’Étoile du Matin” (The Morning Star)

Ref. 276 14 01 (M)

After Alfons Mucha

A figure haloed in radiating light, one arm raised to shield or greet the dawn — grand feu enamel on both the case-back miniature and the dial itself, rather than the case-back alone. Manual calibre 822; crocodile strap with an 18k yellow gold folding buckle.

### “Clair de Lune” (Moonlight)

Ref. 276 14 02 (M)

After Alfons Mucha, 1902

Mucha’s 1902 allegory of the moon, read by contemporary auction cataloguing as unusually sensual for the artist — a red-haired figure wrapped in green beneath a crescent moon on a deep blue ground. By Miklos Merczel’s own account, this was the design that started his entire enamelled-Reverso practice, before the Four Seasons, before Aurore and Crépuscule, before any of it.

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