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Jaeger-LeCoultre has extended its historic Reverso line with a new rose gold model given a grain-textured dial in the Tribute Reverso Monoface Small Seconds collection and two additional steel pieces in the Duoface Small Seconds family.
With lineage back to 1931, the Reverso drew on the prevailing Art Deco architectural style of the era in a watch that could be safely worn on the polo match field.
As its 100th anniversary approaches, Jaeger-LeCoultre is drawing attention to the ever-evolving range, which has been home to flappable watches housing 79 different movements and earning 35 patents over nine decades.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Tribute Reverso Monoface Small Seconds
The new Tribute Reverso Monoface Small Seconds has a closed back — the original form that protected the watch from dings during polo — and is presented on a stunning 18ct gold Milanese mesh bracelet.
Its dial is worth protecting: with a finely-grained golden finish contrasting with the polished gold case of the watch.
Substantial but slim at 45.6mm x 27.4mm x 7.56mm, the watch is powered by a hand-wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 822 with 42 hour power reserve.
Recommended retail price is $41,300/£37,600.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Tribute Reverso Duoface
For two watches in one lovers, or frequent fliers that always want to know the time in the time at home, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Tribute Reverso Duoface is an elegant option and arguably the best value configuration in the brand’s signature style.
Two new steel models launch this week, priced at $13,700/£12,500 (remember, you get two timekeepers for that price) in the most commercial combinations of monochrome black and silver or classic sunray blue and silver dials.
They show a different time zone on each face, plus the front dial has a small seconds sub dial and the reverse side has a 24-hour/night-and-day display.
Powered by a hand-wound Calibre 854 housed in a 47mm x 28.3mm x 10.34mm, the new watches are sold on black or blue leather straps that can be changed for a grey canvas and calfskin alternative.
Metier d’Art
Elsewhere in the all-Reverso line-up of novelties for 2025 there was a gallery of limited editions displaying Jaeger-LeCoultre’s mastery of metier d’art.
Star of the gallery is a new version of the Reverso Tribute Nonantieme ‘Enamel’, only previously seen as a 90th anniversary release in 2021.
This year’s piece, a limited production run of 90, comes in 18ct rose gold and a grey sunray dial with central hours and minutes, date, moon phase and small seconds.
The reverse is a celestial scene with two overlapping circles. A small upper in the upper circle has a semi-jumping digital hour and below is a minute display.
Measuring 49.4mm x 29.9mm x 11.72mm, the case houses JLC’s manually wound Calibre 826 anniversary movement.
Price is $74,000/£68,500.
Even rarer is a series of Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Enamel Shahnameh watches, each a limited edition of 10 pieces, that celebrate the regal origins of the Reverso in the sport of polo.
There are five designs, all time-only watches face-up, but all with miniature artworks on their reverse that are reproduced from the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, an epic, thousand-year-old poem that tells the mythical and historical past of the Persian Empire.
All the artworks required four traditional crafts from its Métiers Rares studio: miniature enamel painting, paillonnage, grand feu enamel and guillochage.
Prices for the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Enamel Shahnameh watches are on application.