Jaeger-LeCoultre Introduces The Luxuriously Enameled And Gem-Set Reverso One Valuable Colours Watches

If there’s one watch that embodies an period like no different, it needs to be the Artwork Deco styling of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. Launched almost a century in the past in 1931, the Reverso solid within the crucible of the Twenties Artwork Deco scene. Although many are conversant in the Reverso’s origins on the Polo pitch, with its signature reversible design defending the crystal throughout play, what is usually neglected is how shortly Jaeger-LeCoultre embraced the flexibility of the Reverso’s design for each women and men. Inside a 12 months of the preliminary launch, Jaeger-LeCoultre started producing fashions with female styling, doing so with fashion and panache. For Watches and Wonders 2023, Jaeger-LeCoultre introduces the Reverso One Valuable Colours, two new fashions that harness the model’s in-house Métiers Rares atelier to create two colorfully enameled and gem-set creations.

The Artwork Deco motion was spawned from the exuberance of post-World Struggle I optimism and was characterised by streamlined shapes, sturdy traces, and repetitive use of parallel traces and rectilinear motifs. Simply because it did in Twenties Paris, Artwork Deco styling represents luxurious, glamour, and enthusiasm. And opulent the brand new Reverso One Valuable Colours most definitely are.

The 40x20mm case of the Reverso One Valuable Colours is crafted from gold (white gold for the inexperienced colorway and pink gold for the blue colorway), but it’s the enameling work and gem-setting that steal the present. Having an in-house atelier at your disposal definitely helps, particularly once you’re creating one thing as labor-intensive because the Reverso One Valuable Colours.

To create the intricate traces and luxurious hues of the case, Jaeger-LeCoultre makes use of a grand feu enameling course of set with diamonds. First, the case is sealed with fondant (clear enamel), then layered and fired repeatedly with opaque enamel earlier than the superb traces of the geometric design are hand-drawn on the case and sides. Utilizing a fine-tipped brush, every block is then individually painted and fired layer by layer earlier than being layered once more with fondant. The method is extremely time-consuming, taking 80 hours of enameling work for a single watch. And that’s earlier than gem-setting.

As soon as the gem-setter receives the watch, they use a grain-setting approach to carry every diamond in place—all whereas making certain they don’t disturb the enamel or disrupt the superbly straight traces of the colour fields. The gem-setting course of alone takes one other 45 hours. One mistake and it’s again to sq. one.

Although the enameled and gem-set case is unimaginable to disregard, Jaeger-LeCoultre ensures the dial is as luxurious as the remainder of the watch. Set upon a backdrop of mother-of-pearl, the Reverso One Valuable Colours makes use of the utilized numerals and Dauphine fingers discovered throughout all Reverso One jewellery fashions. Matching the gold fingers, you’ll discover slender gold brackets in every nook. Comparatively subdued, the dial supplies a juxtaposition to the opulent case, but on some other watch can be nothing if not luxurious.

The Reverso One Valuable Colours are powered by the manual-wind Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 846. Developed particularly for the Reverso and produced fully in-house, the Calibre 846 is formed to comply with the contours of the oblong case and options 38 hours of energy reserve.

Since its inception, the Reverso has embraced each masculine and female styling and the Reverso One Valuable Colours is an embodiment of elegantly female design with pure Artwork Deco styling. Jaeger-LeCoultre describes the Reverso One Valuable Colours as “a jewel to be worn, in addition to a watch to inform the time.” It’s laborious to argue with that description.

Costs for the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Valuable Colours have but to be launched, however each will likely be out there with restricted manufacturing and costs are sure to be commensurate with the time and talent required for every step within the watch’s creation. For extra data on Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Reverso One Valuable Colours, please go to the model’s web site.