The year 2021 marks the 90th anniversary of the legendary Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso watch that was originally created in response to a request from British Army officers in India who wanted a wristwatch that could stand up to the beating of a polo match. The Swiss watchmaker is celebrating the icon by creating the most complicated timepiece ever to join the collection. Presenting the Reverso Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 Quadriptyque, the world?s first wristwatch with four functioning display faces and a total of 11 complications, including a perpetual calendar, minute repeater, indications of the synodic, draconic, and anomalistic cycles. These complications have never been presented together in a wristwatch together and it required a total of 12 patents to craft this masterpiece. The most complicated Reverso took over six years of development and it beautifully showcases the grande maison?s mastery of chiming watches, precision mechanisms, astronomical complications, and ultra-compact watchmaking.
A successor to the incredible Reverso Hybris Mechanica à Triptyque that came out in 2006, the newest to join the watchmaker?s groundbreaking Hybris Mechanica line packs a multitude of complications in a relatively small package with a measurement of 51.2 x 31 mm x 15.15 mm. Jaeger-LeCoultre says ?the most complicated Reverso is also one of the easiest to wear.? Let?s start with the recto face that boldly showcases one of the protagonists of JLC?s new masterpiece: the flyin...