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Bingo...
Yes it is. It was a miracle to find one.
I had always wanted a Reverso, and was smitten with the Black dial Sun Moon. But I simply could not find one. So I decided to pick up (what I guess technically was my "true" first JLC) a Reverso Sun Moon XGT.
Not 2 months later a friend of a friend offered me this nearly untouched LE in Platinum. I didn't even know there was such a creature.
So, quickly sold the other one and never looked back!
This is, without any question, my favorite Reverso. I didn't do justice in these pics. The movement is art. The dial detail is six feet deep.
Ahhhhhhh.......
Reverso 80eme... Guesses, Dreams, Desires...
1931 ... 2011. We already know that JLC will celebrate the 80th Birthday of this iconic model. What we don't know is what it will be... Any hints from the recent Past? Well, the 60th was the first RG in the GT case, to feature a complication in the Revers...
Platinum case,
naturally. Plus a limited SS Boutiqu version of the same for the clients who bought Polaris Paris Boutique version. LOL! Kari
Would be cool!
In fact I am thinking about finding the Omega Museum piece from the 30s. Looks a bit like Reverso but is a diving watch. Nico, perhaps we should offer ourselves to the design department of JLC. During the off time you could take care of your crooks and I ...
Good idea, Kari.
If one day I consider a reconversion, that may be one of my favourite job and solution! Best, my friend. Nicolas.
Looking for a perfect alarm so.........
I fully marry your wishes.....but if I may...... I know its impossible because it a celebration so it requires some "seriousness",but an semi open dial showing hammers action for the ultimate alarm would be amazing. Rest of the dial silver or creamy ename...
A semi open dial ala MMR, Mo?
It would depend on the ground we want to play on... A modern ground could do it. As for a classic, I'd better see an enamel... Have a look at what Breguet did with the Reveil du Tsar Boutique Edtion. Best, my friend. Nicolas
As I said.....
it must be a classic so enamel is the best guess for an anniversary model....but if you ask my wish,I would love to see a little modern touch to it.....Saw the Breguet but not really my cup of tea... I was thinking of the 2 openings on the Duometre a QL a...
A Duometre à Reveil? I jump on it! :)
This message has been edited by amanico on 2010-09-26 05:14:25
Interesting question
Hi Nicolas, Interesting question indeed. I have obviously no idea of the answer but I can't wait to see you discover it! Cheers Dje ps: re the 60eme and Septantieme, the calibres were not simply finished in gold but the bridges were actually made in gold!
Thanks for your help, Jerome... :)))
You're of course right for the precision about bridges, I included them in the movement ... Well, at least in my mind. Best, Nicolas
Nothing uses the chrono movement anymore...
Since the GranSport is discontinued. Maybe they'll revamp/improve that movement for the 80th. A
There was the Gran Sport, but also the RG, which was limited to 500 pieces.
I would love to see an improvement on these already existing models... With a ... Rattrapante?? Best, Aaron. Nicolas
yes but both are long gone...
I only mentioned the GS because it was still available until just a few years ago.... I could not see a split easily, the movement it a bit too strange and complex. I could see either: a. Some sort of striking addition, maybe a "ding" every 15 min or some...
A kind of Celestial???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that is an excedllent idea, Aaron. In the XGT case, but thinner, this would be perfect. Best, Nicolas
80eme
Platine or Tantallum case, Reverso Grande size. With striker or tourbillon complication, and something type enamel dial. Will be a perfect 80eme Reverso for my taste.
Will transmit to Santa Claus, Milan.
Nice suggestions, by the way... Something striking would really be exciting! Well, I fear the price will calm us a bitn but who knows... Best, Nicolas
Reverso with alarm, Interesting idea. Would like to see a reverso in materials
that was never used before like titanium. Mr Lambert said Titanium is one of the best materials for sound as it's light and hard. cheers PAt
Good idea... My first thoughts were referring to a precious metal...
But I would like a lot a more technical metal, such as Titanium... Good idea! Best, Nicolas
My wish would be…
A Reverso memovox, in GT size and SS case. Manual, open case back and high finish movement… Best, my friend Blomman
And one more vote!
This would be a superb junction between 2 worlds which are very dear to JLC: The Alarm, and the Reverso. Hope they will hear us... Best, Nicolas
That would be my wish too...like Blomman.
...Memovox alarm, GT case, manual, open caseback. May I also ask for one on black dial, like this one here - replacing the GMT hand with the alarm hand and removing all the red details: Oh, and one with quick-set date and an option for steel bracelet plea...
Aaah, the famous steel bracelet, for Goh!
An enamel black dial with an Alarm... I fear the date ruins the balance of the dial, but hey, it would certainly be a great watch! Thanks for attending, Goh. Best, Nicolas
Two option
Hi There could be two options. A Futurematic in a Reverso case. Might be a bit difficult, but I'm sure they'd be a way. Secondly a updated reverso Duo - again in a GT case, but have all the functions of the Grande Reverso Duo - that would mean dropping th...
Thanks, jml...I will transmit to Santa... :)
Seriously, I would be very seduced by an high end chiming Reverso... Good one! Best, Nicolas
repeater
with trebuchet hammers and crystal gong. enamel white dial with blue hands and moonphase on one face ala reverso sun/moon, and skeleton dial featuring repeater on the other side ala hybris mechanica. i want one dial to reflect tradition and chronometry an...
Exciting idea, too.
Seriously, I would be very seduced by an high end chiming Reverso... Good, but tough idea. An excellent idea for the Manufacture. Best, Nicolas
i know it fat hopes on my part
but hey....thread title is desires and dreams!! surely by now JLC would have worked out the 80th anniversary edition. i assume SIHH 2011 will be out? perhaps a QP will do
You're certainly right
When you say that JLC already worked on the 80eme. But I also think that the 80eme won't be the only Reverso to be introduced next year. Desires and Dreams... Best, Nicolas
simple and true values
Yes, I agree with you, Nicolas. The watch might be simple and representative of the true values of the Grande Maison. Perhaps it be a delicate enamel on the Dial and other pernonalized in the back. ¿Any complication? I´m not sure, but we musn´t rule out a...
My guess is that we'll see something " playing " around
The true, very representative values of the Grande Maison.But there are so many different faces, here, from the Tradition to the Innovation, that the " field of guesses " is very large. And exciting, too. Since I saw the enamel dials, the simple ones, whi...
I have a looooong list....
No surprise, right, Vlad? A perfectly finished simple Reverso in the size of the Grande 976, perhaps with an enamel dial, no date, with or without sub seconds. The movement finshed to JLC's best level, in other words flawless and competitive with the best...
Never too many good ideas, Respo.
I would be very happy with all your suggestions, except maybe with the idea of a regulator... On a round watch ,why not, but on a rectangualr one??? I'm sure we'll have some nice surprises, also among the ideas you mentionned. Thanks a lot for another gre...
my choice would be....
... reverso with alarm function is a very good idea which will be very nice extension from round Memo collection... of course, one function would not be sufficient as 80eme piece,... so what else? recently learning chrono watch, it would be interesting if...
Complicated or " simply " refined, no problem for me.
I can't wait to see what JLC will offer to us... A Reverso Rattrapante would be my first favourite choice, but an Alarm... Wow. As I said before, I'm sure that among all the ideas we expressed, some will pop up, one day or another... Best, my friend. Nico...
Well, I think I touched on this before, but here goes...
as a study of history of anniversary Reverso shows, it should have (#1, #2 & #3): (1) one rose gold and one platinum offering, 500 pieces of each - although I think 100 would be a better number in today's clogged horological LE world. (2) a larger case, a...
I'm very dubitative about the " big LEs "...
I mean LE of more than 100 or 150 pieces... I'm wondering if the Annual Calendar is such an exciting complication to be offered on an " Anniversary " watch, by the way. We're somewhere between the complete calendar and the perpetual calendar, with the ann...
Manually wound GMT
A real travel Reverso would be great. I love the way the second time zone is handled by 975 movement, but somehow I do not get used to the idea of an automatic movement inside a Reverso. So if they could create a manually wound 975, find a better solution...
A Travel Reverso?
It already existed in the GT case... It was a LE Reverso: Manual wind, " technical " metal, that will certainly be very exciting. But what innovative complication, if a complication was ever needed? Best, my friend. Nicolas....
In truth
This was a far better phone watch than travel watch. It's still a masterpiece and worth owning "just because".
I am a simple guy... just give me...
RG GMT plus Alarm function, that's all so I can keep on flipping with the "music" The Flipper
GMT + Alarm...
That would be the perfect Reverso for Travellers! I completely subscribe to this idea! Best, Nicolas.
Wants
GT or slim XGT case - nothing too big or too fat. the era of big watches is on the wane. Use the perpetual movement from the Triptyque. Can we also have a Reverso Chronograph? And if not the Perpetual what about the Annual Calendar model that was only eve...
Something between the GT and the XGT case...
But slimmer than the XGT case... That would be the ideal Reverso size for me, too. Then, an originally interpreted complication, and I'm done. Thanks for your input, Le Chef! Best, Nicolas.
What I want is......
among other things... an XGT sized (but thinner) plain dialled Duo with white enamel one side, black enamel on the other, art deco styling...no complications other than small seconds at 6 o'clock on both sides and the hours on the black side advanced by t...
Hey, Rob, that makes 4 80eme... :)
XGT with a thinner case, that sounds definitely very tempting, to me... And iuf very simple, just with a small seconds enamel dial, it is perfect. And what if the Innovation was simple Perfection; in all simplicity? A Quadriptyque? Did you saw the laready...
Yes a slim XGT or XGT-
You have my vote on that for case size. A bit of dilemma for me. I would really really like a manual wound chrono but what will happen to the lovely rose gold retros? I'd like an alarm As well but recalled being told by someone at JLC that the reverso cas...
An alarm in a Reverso case may be the ultimate defy, indeed.
As this complication needs some place to express itself in the best possible way. So, such a complication in a thjin case may be problematic. But easy things are not the most interesting, don't you think? I'm very impatient to see what they have under the...
XGT..ultrathin manual, superb finish, platinum, white enamel dial, blue steel hands...
uh oh..need to change underwear.....
That seems to be a Purist Standard, Imran ...
I mean the watch, not the underwear... Best, Nicolas
Of course we should
Of course we should tamper with your perfection....lose the day/night indicator and the power reserve indictor as they are ruining the symetry.....THEN you have perfection
hahaha, yes there's always room for new inspiration!
i'm just overly sentimental about this reverso as its my very first JLC!
Is it what I think it is?
Is it a Platinum Sun and Moon limited edition and if it is good start for a first JLC. Best regards, George
Bingo...
Yes it is. It was a miracle to find one. I had always wanted a Reverso, and was smitten with the Black dial Sun Moon. But I simply could not find one. So I decided to pick up (what I guess technically was my "true" first JLC) a Reverso Sun Moon XGT. Not 2...
You're just telling us that you also got a Reverso Sun Moon Platinum?
Eeeeh? One of he nicest Reversos, my friend. Well done! A rectangular, a round .. A classic, at JLC! Best, Nicolas
yes, the big secret up my sleave....(and out of the vault)
Everybody cherishes their first, yes?
Yep... Fantastic!
You should take the time to post some good pics of this beauty, my friend. If and when you have the time, of course. Best, Nicolas
First one
I guess that Maikeru and I have something in common as my first JLC was a LE Platinum Sun and Moon. It was a gift from my Boss for services rendered. I don't wear it enough though. I will post pictures tomorrow. Best regards, George
George, you should bring it to me ...
For a photo session... It has rarely been seen, it would be of great interest for everybody to see this beauty. Best, my friend. Nicolas
No problem
All we need to do is agree a time and date so that I can drop it off to you. Your pictures are always much better than mine. Best regards, George