Jaeger-LeCoultre presents the Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater which offers not just looks or performance, but a great deal of legacy as well. Around nine decades ago, Jaeger-LeCoultre launched the first Reverso, and 150 years ago, the brand created its first minute repeater timepiece. With all that history and expertise to take inspiration from, the manufacture has now presented the Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater offered in a limited edition of 10 pieces.
Jaeger-LeCoultre has a long tradition in the creation of chiming mechanisms having developed more than 200 chiming calibres in its exceptional history which started in 1833 and this is not the first time that a Reverso model houses a minute repetition complication.
In fact, in 1994 La Grande Maison presented the Reverso Répétition Minutes. It was the first time that the Swiss brand had miniaturised a minute repeater for a wristwatch and was the world’s first rectangular minute repeater movement.
The new Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater is powered by a revised version of the manufacture Calibre 944, a movement that embodies technical advances like the patented trebuchet hammers, a silent regulator and a new generation of gongs. Beating at 21,600 vibrations per hour, it offers an autonomy of 35 hours.
With its distinctive Art Deco lines and swivelling case, the Reverso is one of the world’s most recognisable wristwatches. Its story embodies Jaeger-LeCoultre’s eternal pursuit of beauty and aesthetic refinement, expanding the Reverso’s stylistic realm by harnessing the full potential of its unique design.
Allied to this is the Manufacture’s endlessly inventive quest for technical advancement – from the revolutionary idea of a case that could be flipped over, and the ingenious mechanism that made it possible, to the development of complications specific to the Reverso.
The front dial is entirely skeletonised making it possible to admire the minute repeater mechanism while in action. Beneath a large bow-shaped bridge that sweeps from 11 o’clock to 7 o’clock, the components appear almost to be floating in three dimensions, the sense of visual depth and transparency enhanced by faceted indexes that are cantilevered from the chemin de fer minutes track.
