Jaeger-LeCoultre

"Reverso Art Deco” Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso, Art Deco”, No. 29, Ref. 270.3.62. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, rectangular, 18K white gold gentleman's reversible wristwatch with an 18K white gold Jaeger- LeCoultre deployant clasp. Five-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, transparent case back, triangular lugs, sapphire crystals. Matte and "guilloché" copper-colored with applied white gold dart and dot indexes, subsidiary seconds dial. White gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 822, skeletonized and hand-engraved 14K gold, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial and case signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm. Thickness: 10 mm. Notes "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. Today the Reverso is one of the most successful wristwatches produced by the company and it is a true wristwatch icon.