While Jaeger-LeCoultre has been integrating the world time system into its various collections since 1958, 2025 marks the first instance of the traveler’s complication appearing in a Reverso Tribute. An homage to the complicated 1998 Reverso Géographique, this lovely new model —available in both stainless steel as well as pink gold — provides dual dials: On the obverse is a classic blue enamel face with sub-seconds and a grande date display below 12 o’clock. Flip the case over, and the wearer is greeted with a beautifully rendered world time indicator with a city ring etched directly into stainless steel. Subtle yet intricate, it’s no doubt a design that world time inventor Louis Cottier himself would have approved of.
Powering the Reverso Tribute Geographic is a brand-new movement, the hand-wound Calibre 834, which provides several notable features: Unlike on many world timer watches, the city ring on the world time display remains static, while the 24-hour ring rotates. All this is controlled via a discrete pusher hidden on the watch head’s top flank, which is revealed when the case is removed from its housing and rotated 90 degrees. The outsize date, meanwhile, comprises two side-by-side discs (rather than overlapping discs) so that the date numerals always appear on the same plane. Choose the limited-edition pink gold version for a bit of panache, or the steel version to fly discreetly under the radar.
Case Size: 29.9mm
Case Material: Stainless steel
Power Reserve: 42 hours
Strap: Blue canvas and calfskin Casa Fagliano Design; blue calf leather Casa Fagliano Design
Price: TBD
From the article by Paige Reddinger, Oren Hartov, Victoria Gomelsky, Carol Besler, Justin Fenner
