- Jaeger-LeCoultre builds on 150 years of chiming expertise with these new Reverso models.
- The Tribute Geographic’s no-dial display strips the complication down to pure function.
- Both models are a statement in craft and confidence from the watchmaker of watchmakers.
Released this week at Watches & Wonders, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater takes the Reverso collection to its most challenging complication, building upon a 150-year legacy to produce a chiming masterpiece.
Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater
This Reverso is a minute repeater built by a manufacture revered for developing nearly 200 of them since 1870… and it certainly shows. The Calibre 953 movement is made entirely in-house, fitted with seven patented innovations including trébuchet hammers, crystal gongs, and a silent-interval elimination system. It delivers serious acoustic performance and a 48-hour power reserve. It’s certainly rare for a complication this demanding.
The front dial is finished in teal-blue grand feu enamel over barleycorn guilloché, crafted in the Atelier des Métiers Rares. On the reverse, the open-worked architecture puts the minute repeater mechanism on full display, complete with hand-bevelled bridges and a blue-lacquered hammer bridge that spans the movement.
The case is pink gold. The strap is black alligator. The folding clasp adjusts to within 0.5mm and contains 46 separate components. Only six will be made, each part of the Nonantieme Collector’s Box. An exquisite, confident release from the watchmaker of watchmakers.
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Reverso Tribute Geographic
Inspired by the original 1931 models, the Reverso Tribute Geographic is Jaeger-LeCoultre at its most intelligent. On the front, this piece boasts a clean, sunray-brushed blue lacquer dial with Dauphine hands, applied indexes, and a patented Grande Date at 6 o’clock for symmetry and legibility.
Flip it over, and the back becomes the dial. Cities are engraved directly onto the steel case, while a 24-hour rotating disc displays the time zones at a glance. No traditional dial. No clutter. Just mechanical clarity. The Calibre 834 movement was designed from the ground up to fit Jaeger-LeCoultre’s rectangular architecture. It powers both the Grande Date and world time functions (also first-time inclusions) using just 209 components and maintains a 42-hour power reserve.
But here, the level of finishing deployed by the Swiss luxury Maison is what truly sets it apart. 141 hand-filled hollows, laser-engraved oceans, and polished continents come together on a lacquered blue map. The entire ensemble takes three craftsmen to complete at the manufacture.
This is the most refined world time Reverso ever built. An inherently unique display of the world time that stays true to the 1931 aesthetic, but simultaneously something classic, complicated and contemporary.
