Jérôme Lambert is back at Jaeger-LeCoultre and his ‘return’ Watches and Wonders, and this is a good thing. It may not be a particular ‘birthday’ year for the Reverso, but that his return comes with a suite of new Reversos shows his influence, with this collection mainstay once again reminding everyone why it has survived for so long.

It may not be as attention-grabbing, but with nine new models, it clearly has not been forgotten. It’s easy to forget that there are new generations of watch buyers/ lovers that are looking for their first big luxury watch purchase every handful of years, and it is not a bad thing to have new options for ‘old things’ available for them to consider.

To my mind, the most interesting new Reverso is the Reverso Tribute Geographic, which uses the new in-house Calibre 834, which was developed for this model. The watch has a 24-hour time zone display with a world map at its centre and the traditional world timer mechanism has been changed to show a display of city names accompanied by a rotating 24-hour ring.

It comes in two variants: a sleek stainless-steel model that will become part of the permanent collection, and a pink gold model limited to 150 pieces. The case is 49.4mm × 29.9mm × 11.14mm, with water resistance of 30m.

For the front dial, the steel model has a blue sunray finish, whereas the pink gold version goes for a darkish chocolate colour. Functionally, there is a large double-window date at 12 o’clock with the numerals on white discs, and a small seconds sub dial at 6 o’clock.

Flip it to the verso, and there is a world time display set into a polished case back. Consisting of multiple levels, there is a lacquered and laser engraved world map with engraved city names, and a rotating two-tone 24-hour ring that indicates day and night and jumps in hourly increments. The hours are set using a pusher hidden between the lugs at the top of the case. These reverse sides are either blue lacquer for the steel model or black lacquer for the pink gold variant.

As mentioned, powering this new Reverso Tribute Geographic is the manually-wound Calibre 834, which beats at 21,600 VPH and has a 42-hour power reserve

Both models come with two interchangeable Casa Fagliano straps in blue canvas/ calfskin and blue calf leather with interchangeable double-folding clasp for the steel model, and straps in golden-tan calf leather and black alligator-leather with interchangeable pin buckle for the limited edition rose gold model.

The Australian RRP for the steel model is $$34,200 and for the rose gold model, $56,500.

My second favourite of the new Reversos is the Tribute Nonantieme ‘Enamel’ – a limited edition in pink gold with a gold-star speckled blue enamel night sky with engraved latitude and longitude lines on the verso side. There are two overlapping apertures that display a jumping digital hour and rotating minutes disc, with a day/ night indicator in the middle featuring a polished sun and moon.

The front dial is sunray-brushed grey, again with a double-window large date at 12 o’clock. These types of apertures have gadroons that echo the Reverso case gadroons. At 6 o’clock is a sub dial doing double duty both as a small seconds and moonphase.

The 18k pink gold case measures 49.4mm × 29.9mm × 11.72mm with water resistance of 30m and as per previously, the Tribute Nonantieme ‘Enamel’ is powered by the manually-wound in-house Calibre 826, which beats at 21,600VPH and has a power reserve of 42-hours.

Coming in a limited edition of ninety pieces, the Reverso tribute Nonantieme ‘Enamel’ is POA.

A completely brand new Reverso rounds up my top three picks – the 18k pink gold Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds with a Milanese bracelet, the latter making its debut in a Reverso.

In a case measuring 45.6mm × 27.4mm × 7.56mm with water resistance of 30m, it’s a modern retro watch that because of the combination of case and Milanese both in pink gold, is not going to be for the shy and retiring. Not everyone can pull of a Milanese bracelet, but if you can pull one off, and in pink gold no less, this is very much a statement piece.

As the Monoface name indicates, there is only a single face/ dial. The golden dial is grained to contrast with the polished case, and the bracelet has an integrated sliding clasp. It requires the weaving of 16 metres of gold thread into the mesh that gets transformed into the semi-integrated bracelet.

Powering it is the manually-wound Calibre 822 which beats at 21,600VPH and has a power reserve of 42-hours.

The Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds has an Australian RRP of $66,500.

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