Category: JAEGER-LECOULTRE

Next year, Jaeger-LeCoultre will celebrate 90 years of its most iconic watch, the Reverso, to mark that date, it has just launched a limited edition of this same model, with a burgundy red dial and pink gold case, the Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano.

The Reverso was first introduced in 1931, having been developed for the polo player, with the distinctive feature of all others being its flip-over box, which allowed to alternate between the dial with the hours and the solid rear box with a view to protecting the clock face. The simplicity of the dial combined with the flip-over case has won admirers all over the world making it one of the most well-known watches and the success was so great that new variants with different coloured dials quickly emerged, however, the first watch born bearing the prestigious name Reverso was exactly the same with a burgundy red dial.

 The Reverso Duoface, however, only appeared in 1994, with two contrasting dials and each one with a different time zone, powered by the hand-wound Caliber 854A/2 and while on the main dial the hours can be adjusted using the crown positioned at the 3 o’clock, the secondary display or second-time zone is set using a discreet cursor placed on the top of the box and only visible momentarily when the display is changed on the watch.

The main dial follows the line of the original design of Reverso, with straight hour indexes and double markers at 12 o’clock, dauphine hands and a small subdial of seconds at 6 o’clock.

On the back, we find the stippled texture of Clous de Paris guillochage, which contrasts in the centre with two opaline dials, the largest that provides a second time zone, with hour indexes and dauphine hands, and a smaller dial below with day and night indicator.

The watch comes with a two-tone bracelet produced by the famous Casa Fagliano that also gives it its name, which produces polo boots. The materials used in the bracelet are cordovan leather and canvas, which are exactly the same materials used to produce polo boots in the summer season. All pieces are cut and sewn by hand.

This is a limited edition of only 190 pieces, which can be found exclusively at the brand’s boutiques for the price of € 23,400.

General Specifications:

Brand: Jaeger LeCoultre

Model: Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano

Reference: 398256J

Dial: Burgundy red and opaline with a stippled texture of Clous de Paris guillochage

Case Material: 19k Pink gold

Case Dimensions: 47 mm x 28,3 mm x 10,3 mm

Indexes: Applied gold

Crystal: Sapphire Crystal

Water Resistance: 30 meters

Caliber:854A/2

Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, day/night indicator

Winding: Manual

Jewels: 26

Power Reserve: 42 Hours

Strap: Cordovan leather and canvas strap

Price: € 23,400

Limited Edition: 190 pieces

We had not yet had the opportunity to talk about the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Geographic at the time of the Watches&Wonders but the promise stayed and today we take a look at what seems to us one of the most special among the Master Control collection.

I don’t know why, but dual time zone watches have something magical, like a rabbit hole that transports us to a distant place and it’s a very good vibe, at least for travel lovers and as you already noticed I belong to that one tribe.

Master Control Geographic was first introduced in the 1990s, but with few variations compared to this new release, starting with the name, it used to be “Geographique” instead of the actual Geograpic, the old French title gave way to an English name, the other changes are in dimensions, the previous 39mm in diameter increased to 40mm and the previous 12mm in thickness decreased to 10,8mm.

But what holds our eyes on this new Master Control Geographic? It is a very good-looking watch and besides of its many complications doesn’t show to be ostentatious. It’s come in a stainless steel case (Q4128420) or in their Le Grand Rose Gold (Q4122520) with a silver dial marked with Arabic numbers at 3-9-12 hour’s and triangular indices in the remaining hour’s positions, in the dial we can also find a day indicator in an upper-right sub-dial and in the opposite side a big power reserve indicator, a hometime sub-dial at 6 o’clock with a tiny day/night indicator at 9 o’clock and at the bottom a city disk indicating the second time zone set. This JLC model has two crowns, the principal one at 3 o’clock used to set the local time and the date and a second one at 10 o’clock position to define the second time zone for the city disk in an incredibly simple way.

Other specifications: 40mm of diameter, 10.8mm of thickness, 70h of power reserve, an in-house automatic movement Caliber 939, 50 meters of water resistance, a novonappa calf or alligator strap and a price of €12,500 (Q4128420).