Jaeger-LeCoultre

"Reverso, Répétition Minutes" Jaeger-LeCoultre, "Reverso, Répétition Minutes", No. 462/500, Ref. 270.2.73. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples 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. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded bezel. “Guilloché” silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the strike regulator. Blued steel "épée" hands. Cal. 943, rhodium plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating a reeded slide on the band. 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 for its production. Today the Reverso is one of the most successful wristwatches produced by the company and it is a true wristwatch icon.