HERALD OF A STYLE
With its grainy dial, sleek case silhouette, and meticulously crafted mesh bracelet, this exceptional timepiece from the “watchmaker’s watchmaker” offers an explosion of contrasts dressed in rose gold.
The story of the Reverso dates back nearly a century, to 1931 to be precise. Born out of a need expressed by British officers stationed in India for a watch robust enough to accompany them on the field during polo matches, this future herald of Jaeger-LeCoultre‘s style has been in constant evolution ever since, expanding its rich collection and incorporating various complications. This year, the flagship piece from the manufacture nestled in Le Sentier, in the Vallée de Joux, adopts contrasting features that highlight its Art Deco architecture while giving it an elegant vintage look: a Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds version dressed in rose gold.
This combination harmoniously plays with textures, shapes, and volumes, from the smooth surface of its rectangular case to the delicately grained appearance of its stamped dial and the Milanese mesh of its bracelet, a fine weave of tiny links that makes the whole piece supple and comfortable.
On the front, the face of the Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds features a series of applied, arrow-shaped, faceted hour markers, edged with a railway-track minute scale, which are pointed to by a pair of dauphine hands. The seconds are displayed in a counter with a small straight seconds hand at 6 o’clock.
The reverse side can be kept “bare” or engraved with initials, a name, a sketch or, for the more sentimental souls, a message of love. The rose gold case, measuring 45.6×27.4mm and 7.56mm thick, houses the caliber 822_2, a 3hz manual-winding movement developed by Jaeger-LeCoultre that delivers a power reserve of 42 hours. Its attachments hold the famous Milanese mesh bracelet, also in rose gold, whose strands come together against the wrist thanks to a sliding clasp.
