Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Geographic | INTRODUCING

Jamie Weiss

• Jaeger-LeCoultre introduces a novel tackle a world timer within the type of an advanced Reverso for Watches and Wonders 2025.
• The newly developed, in-house Calibre 834 includes a grande date on the principle time-telling dial, and a world time disc on the reverse.
• Two variants can be found: a stainless-steel model with a blue dial and a limited-edition pink gold model with a chocolate brown dial.

I’m a sucker for journey watches – whether or not they’re GMT watches, twin time watches, or world timers. Having the ability to monitor the time in a number of time zones and internationally just isn’t solely sensible however inextricably glamorous. In fact, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is a primary instance of a glamorous journey watch – with some Duoface references permitting you to show two completely different instances throughout two completely different dials. Nonetheless, “the watchmaker’s watchmaker” has outdone themselves on this regard with their newest Reverso launch: a novel but elegant tackle the world timer formulation that demonstrates the Maison’s mastery.

You’ll be able to instantly inform the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Geographic other than different Reversos even with out its world time show: its most important time-telling dial, which is resplendent in a good looking lacquered sunray end, has a grande date complication at 12 o’clock. Whereas there are Reversos with day/month indicators at 12 in JLC’s present catalogue, a giant date Reverso has been absent for some time, so on this complication alone, the Reverso Tribute Geographic stands out.

This new Reverso Tribute Geographic can also be very simply distinguishable from the unique Reverso Géographique ref. 270.2.58 from 1998. A restricted version of 500 items, it was cased in pink gold, had an exterior pusher and featured a silver guilloché dial with a day/night time indicator on the obverse (or “recto”) and a visually difficult reverse (or “verso”) with a second dial and handset, two metropolis subdials, a GMT indicator and one other day/night time indicator. It’s a surprising watch that shows extra data than the brand new Reverso Tribute Geographic, however it’s fairly arduous to learn – and arduous to seek out, too.

Anyway, I digress: it’s while you flip its case over that the actually attention-grabbing a part of this watch is revealed. The Verso aspect is completely devoted to a world time disc, however in contrast to a typical world time disc – which has a metropolis ring that strikes round a dial with numerals staying mounted – JLC has completed the alternative, with metropolis indications laser-engraved onto the case and a fantastically hand-lacquered depiction of the globe from the North Pole, bisected by a rotating 24-hour disc on show by means of a sapphire ring.

Sliding the watch head out of the cradle, you’ll discover a knurled slider on the prime of the case, which is able to advance the world time disc hour by hour, impartial of the handset on the principle dial. It’s a neat answer that’s much more intuitive than it sounds. The grande date show will also be superior by a hidden pusher slightly below the crown, and in contrast to most large dates, it shows each numerals on the identical airplane, relatively than stacking the date wheels and having one numeral seem decrease than the opposite.

Each these revolutionary problems, the world timer and grande date, are made potential by an all-new motion, the Calibre 834. It has a 42-hour hand-wound energy reserve and helps the Reverso Tribute Geographic obtain a exceptional complete thickness of simply 11.14mm. That’s barely on the thicker aspect for a Reverso, however within the grand scheme of issues, pretty svelte – and it’s an advanced Reverso, don’t overlook. When it comes to case measurement, it measures 49.4mm tall and 29,9mm broad, which is once more on the bigger aspect for a Reverso however nonetheless very simply manageable.

Two variations of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Geographic can be found: a stainless-steel mannequin with a blue dial, and an 18k pink gold mannequin with a chocolate brown dial, the latter of which is a restricted version. Each fashions include two dial colour-matched strap choices every: each get a Casa Fagliano calf leather-based strap, the metal mannequin will get an extra bi-material strap, and the gold mannequin will get an alligator leather-based strap.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Geographic pricing and availability

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Geographic is accessible now, with the chrome steel mannequin being an everyday manufacturing mannequin and the pink gold mannequin a restricted version of 150 items. Worth: US$21,200, A$34,200 (metal), US$34,900, A$56,500 (pink gold)