Jaeger-LeCoultre – Reverso Tribute Enamel Alfons Mucha
The Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud to be one of the few watchmaking Manufactures to master the arts of enameling and hand-engraving. To showcase its Rare Handcrafts ?Métiers Rares?, the Grande Maison has given three new faces to its Reverso watches, displaying famous artworks crafted with remarkable skill by its master artisans.
Jaeger-LeCoultre has long maintained an ardent interest in painting and art history. The Reverso Tribute Enamel collection pays homage to the illustrious painters who share the values of the Grande Maison. Each Reverso Tribute Enamel watch has been crafted by our artisans to offer a front dial finely guilloché by hand and covered with translucent Grand Feu enamel, twinned with a reverse face featuring an enameled miniature of a painting inspired by a great painter that is as Alfons Mucha. For this collection, Jaeger-LeCoultre has drawn inspiration from ?The Seasons?, the artist?s emblematic 1896 series of decorative panels, to decorate three different models of the Reverso Tribute Enamel?each in a limited series of eight pieces.
The front face of each watch has been worked in guilloché of remarkable quality. Finely crafted by Jaeger-LeCoultre?s master engraver, this guilloché requires extremely complex artisanal skills and a machine that dates back a hundred years. On this face, a sunburst guilloché appears in relief under the deep color of its transparent enameling. Each color required hours of research to achieve its perfectly even hu...
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