Next up, Jaeger-LeCoultre. We focus our view on two highlights, both from the Reverso collection.
Hands on with the JLC Reverso, and our handling impressions.
Live from WWG25: highlights from Jaeger-LeCoultre new releases
We covered the fuller JLC release in this article here.
JLC Reverso Geographic
JLC returns the Reverso to the complications route. And this year, a revisit of the Geographic which shows two timezones and capable of showing the World Time on the reverse side. Twenty four timezones are displayed. A new caliber 834 is developed and on the front dial, it is just a simple three hand display with a large date.
Retail is EUR 19k in SS. A limited edition of 250 pieces in pink gold is priced at EUR 31.5k. The pink gold version is released as part of the 6 piece collector box. Four of these are available – the Nonantieme, the Chronograph, the Geographic and the Minute Repeater.
JLC Reverso Minute Repeater
In the 1994, the first minute repeater in a square case was released in the Reverso collection as part of the 60th anniversary celebration of the Reverso. This year, a tribute is paid with a new repeater. Also in the rectangular movement, but with an improved sound signature. The watch is based on the new Caliber 953 which features JLC inventions like the tribuchet hammers, crystal gongs which is welded to the sapphire glass instead of the case. The repeater also features the silent interval suppression where when there is no quarters to be chimed (first 15 minutes), it suppresses this dead time. The chiming goes directly from the hours strike to the minutes.
The front dial is hand-guilloché with a barley seed pattern and the reverse side shows the movement through the sapphire back. We have a recording of the striking which we will show later. The only reason is that we recorded it using our iPhone 16 Pro, which records in .mov format, but WordPress does not accept the video format.
Retail EUR 275k excluding tax.
