Jaeger-LeCoultre

"Reverso - Répétition Minutes" Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso - Répétition Minutes", No. 374/500, Ref. 270.2.73. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in 1995. Very fine and rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold gentleman's reversible wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. Accompanied by a certificate. Five-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, sapphire crystal. Guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the strike regulator. Blued steel "épée" hands. Cal. 849R-843, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Notes Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso". The history of the "Reverso" begins in 1930 in India. Cesar de Trey, a Swiss traveler, conceived the idea of a watch that could be turned over to protect its dial and crystal from the dangers common watches faced on the dusty polo fields in the then British colony. Back in Switzerland, he approached the LeCoultre company in Le Sentier with his ideas. The watch case was developed by the Jaeger company in France, who asked French designer and engineer, René-Alfred Chauvet, to prepare the drawings for its production. Chauvet applied for Patent No. 712868 at the French Ministry of Trade and Industry on March 4th, 193