It?s happened to all of us, right" We discover a watch ? either online or on the wrist of one of our watch-savvy friends ? and are eager to try one on for ourselves, only to find that the brand has either discontinued the watch, changed it to a style that doesn’t sing to us quite as much, or has simply has de-emphasized it, making room on retailers’ shelves for the newer models that the brand needs to move this year. There are places you can look, of course, especially online, but it can often be like walking through a minefield figuring out which of these sources to trust.
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Squadra World Chronograph
In my very first issue as an editor of WatchTime, we covered the introduction of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Squadra, a square-cased version of the rectangular-cased classic Reverso. I took an instant liking to the Squadra’s masculine proportions and angular aesthetics, but I was apparently in the relative minority, as the collection is, eleven years later, no longer a cornerstone of the still-rich JLC portfolio, and thus not immediately available from the company for a review. Fortunately, as I’ve discovered, there are resources outside the traditional retailers and auctioneers, such as the so-called “luxury consignment sites” ? in the case of this review watch, one called Shopworn.com. The website claims to be “the only ecommerce website exclusively selling designer display-model watches, jewelry, and...