Jaeger-LeCoultre

"Reverso Tourbillon Platinum No. 2" Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso - Tourbillon Platinum Number Two ", No. 60/500, Ref. 270. 6.48. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces. Sold in 2004. Very fine and rare, rectangular, platinum gentleman's reversible wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, 40-hour power reserve indication and a platinum Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve Five-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary seconds dial. On the back, the tourbillon under a polished steel bridge. Blued steel “épée” hands. Cal. 848, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with oneminute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement 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