Elegance and precision
The Reverso saga continues in 2014 with an innovation that will delight connoisseurs. For the very first time, one of the iconic models in a collection that continues to meet the same demands of reliability, absolute readability and useful functions, is appearing in a version equipped with an automatic movement. Many devoted fans of the swivel case will doubtless salute the arrival of the latest newcomer to the family – especially since it features all the key signature traits that have raised to authentic cult status a timepiece developed in the 1930s at the request of British colonial army officers stationed in India. 2014 sees the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre lay a new milestone in the epic ongoing adventures of the Reverso, by offering watchmaking enthusiasts a model embodying the quintessence of the Reverso while providing all the comfort and serenity of an automatic movement.
A single glance is enough to instantly recognise the spirit of the watch with the reversible case in all its pristine purity: a silver-toned dial framed by the three distinctive gadroons; applied black Arabic numerals apart from the 6 which is replaced by a useful complementary display. Blue facetted baton-type hands for the hours and minutes, as well as a triangular day/night pointer in the same colour. Since Jaeger-LeCoultre consistently combines a keen aesthetic sense with an ingenious knack for facilitating information read-off in all circumstances, the dial of the night/day indicator is divided along its centre by a horizontal line marking off the lower part of the Clous de Paris guilloché motif, while linking numbers 6 and 18 so as to visually separate daytime and night-time hours. For Jaeger-LeCoultre, simplicity and subtlety thus clearly continue to work hand in hand.