Source: https://myreversostory.com/series/mucha-four-seasons-1996
Summary: The set that started it all: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first enamelled Reverso, and the only Reversos ever made with true enamel dials. Not to be confused with the…
Updated: 2026-09-11
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Artistic Edition

# Reverso “Four Seasons” — Alfons Mucha, 1996

The set that started it all: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s first enamelled Reverso, and the only Reversos ever made with true enamel dials.

**Introduced**1996

**Crafts**Grand feu enamel miniature painting

**Edition size**25 sets of 4 (100 watches total)

**Movement**Calibre 822 · manual-wound

**Case**28 × 42 × 11 mm, 18k yellow gold

**Pieces in set**4

Not to be confused with the three-piece Mucha set from 2018 elsewhere in this archive — this is the original, and the watch that began Jaeger-LeCoultre’s modern enamel programme entirely. In 1991 Miklos Merczel, a Hungarian-trained watchmaker who had moved through Cartier’s complications department before joining LeCoultre, spotted an antique enamelled pocket watch at the Basel Fair. Self-taught from there, he earned the title of Master Enameller in 1995, and in 1996 unveiled his first enamelled Reverso set: four watches after Alfons Mucha’s *The Seasons*, one of the most recognisable Art Nouveau images of the 1890s. Each case-back carries a painted enamel portrait of a woman personifying her season; the dials are white enamel with painted Arabic numerals, a blue minute track, and blued steel épée hands — the only Reversos, before or since, built with a genuinely enamelled dial rather than a lacquered or guilloché one. Twenty-five sets of four were made, all in 18k yellow gold, and sold as complete sets rather than individually — which makes a full matching set, rather than a single watch, the rare thing to find today.

Sources: [Antiquorum — complete set](https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/jaeger-lecoultre-lot-164-11) · [Sotheby’s — Spring](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference-2) · [Sotheby’s — Summer](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference) · [Sotheby’s — Autumn](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference-3) · [Sotheby’s — Winter](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-four-seasons-reference-4)

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### “Spring”

Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’000)

After Alfons Mucha, 1896

A fair maiden stands under blossoming trees, celebrating rebirth with a lyre in hand; bright flowers and green leaves surround her, and her translucent white dress reads as purity — spring cast as the innocent opening act of the year.

### “Summer”

Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’003)

After Alfons Mucha, 1896

A woman rests against a blossoming poppy field, dipping her feet into a cool lake, a red flower crown against fiery hair and a deep blue sky behind her — heat and abundance held in the same image.

### “Autumn”

Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’002)

After Alfons Mucha, 1896

A crimson-haired figure gathers grapes from a laden vine, a chrysanthemum wreath in her hair, set against a tangerine harvest landscape — the same imagery Jaeger-LeCoultre would echo again in its 2018 Mucha revival.

### “Winter”

Ref. 276.1.62 (case No. 1’912’001)

After Alfons Mucha, 1896

A bashful figure in a green cape cradles a small bird against the cold, snow covering the ground around her — winter read not as an ending but as patience, life held in reserve until spring returns.

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