Jaeger-LeCoultre
The watchmakers’ watchmaker, home of the Reverso.
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The house
Jaeger-LeCoultre
- Founded
- 1833
- Country
- Switzerland
- Based in
- Le Sentier
Antoine LeCoultre set up a workshop in the Vallée de Joux in 1833 and spent the century solving problems nobody else had got to: a tool that measured a micron, in 1844, and a keyless winding system of his own. The firm's partnership with the Paris watchmaker Edmond Jaeger gave it the name it carries from 1937.
It is often called the watchmaker's watchmaker, and the phrase is literal. Jaeger-LeCoultre has supplied movements to Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin, and has produced well over a thousand calibres of its own.
Its most recognisable watch exists for a frivolous reason. In 1931 British officers in India wanted something that would survive a polo match, so the Reverso was built with a case that flips over to hide its own dial. It remains one of the few genuinely Art Deco objects still in production.
Known for
ReversoQ3978480
A case that turns over, designed in 1931 to survive polo.
Master Ultra Thin
The quiet round dress watch the house is less famous for.
Before you buy one
On a Reverso, work the reversing cradle: it should slide and pivot with no play and no grinding. A worn cradle is the expensive fault on this watch.
The Reverso comes in a genuinely confusing number of sizes and both hand-wound and automatic forms. Decide on a size by trying one, not by reading millimetres — the rectangular case wears quite differently from a round one.
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Last revised 22 Oct 2026.