Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. The famed Swiss ...

What's your favourite Reverso? It’s a question to which any bona fide watch aficionado should have an answer, though one person’s response will rarely match that of the next, such is the choice. In ...

When it comes to the Reverso, the legendary Jaeger-LeCoultre timepiece with a unique swiveling mechanism, “two-faced” takes on a whole new meaning. Far from being an insidious quality, it’s the very ...

Given the almost uniformly round shape of today’s watches, it’s easy to forget that a century or so ago the rectangular timepiece was what gentlemen of the day favoured. It came about after the ...

At Jaeger-LeCoultre, that milestone was achieved in 1931, with the debut of the brand’s Reverso. To call the watch an icon, a much-maligned term in wider watchmaking, but the Reverso is one of few to ...