Following last year’s launch of the Reverso Tribute Chronograph in stainless steel and 18k rose gold, Jaeger-LeCoultre has gone ‘full gold’, with a new variant in an 18k rose gold version with a solid 18kt rose gold dial, movement bridges, applied markers and pin buckle. This third Reverso Tribute Chronograph is also the first to come in a limited edition.

The rose gold dial has fine horizontal lines/ striations, not something for which Jaeger-LeCoultre is known. Releasing it in 2024, one could be excused for thinking about this as the Reverso equivalent of the reinvigorated Polo 79, sans the bracelet from Richemont stablemate Piaget.

Coming in a case measuring 49.4mm x 29.9mm with a thickness of 11.14mm, it has a water resistance of 30m.

The front dial is 18k rose gold with laser-engraved striations. Gold hands and indices are nothing new to the range, but for the first time in this collection, the movement bridges are made of rose gold too – the reverse side has a skeleonised dial with striped and hand-bevelled rose gold bridges with Côtes de Genève. The second dial has its hours and minutes hands linked to the front, with a central chronograph seconds hand and a retrograde 30-minute counter. The counters, chronograph seconds and minute tracks are highlighted in black, and the chronograph hands are blued.

Powering it is the manually-wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Cal. 860 with a column-wheel chronograph beating at 28,800 VPH and with a power reserve of 52 hours.

The new Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Chronograph Rose Gold comes with two Fagliano two straps – a tan calf strap, and a black alligator strap.

Coming in a limited edition of 250 pieces, the Australian price is POA but in the U.S., it is $66,000.

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