Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Precious Colors Watch Review

Flip the case, and the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Precious Colors watch is transformed into a piece of exquisite high-end jewelry. The micro-painted Grand Feu enamel decorative pattern is set against a rose gold background with blue and black tones, or a white gold background with different shades of green tones, embellished with brilliant diamonds, creating a deep and dynamic visual effect. Best cheap watches online, discover our affordable replica Jaeger LeCoultre watches collection. Wide range of luxury watches brands.

Starting from the enamel process, the entire process must be rigorous and precise. It requires not only mastering each process skillfully, but also achieving a balanced coordination between different manual skills. Metal bases made of white or rose gold must first be covered with molten transparent enamel and fired. Then, in order to prepare a new blank surface for drawing colored designs, the enamel craftsman needs to cover multiple layers of opaque white enamel, each layer needs to be dried and fired separately. Subsequently, lines are drawn by hand on the flat surface of the case with a needle pen to form a geometric pattern design that extends uninterrupted to the side of the watch. At this point you can start coloring.

The entire surface is retouched using a brush with a very fine tip, and the color blocks of different colors are drawn by hand (also need to be painted layer by layer, and fired after each coloring), until the depth and concentration of each color reach the enamel craftsman. Ideal state needed. After the color baking is completed, it needs to be covered with multiple layers of transparent enamel. This enamel process is also known as the "Geneva process", and the final covering coat protects the color from fading while enhancing the sense of depth. This long-wearing surface is hand-polished to a sparkling brilliance, as smooth as a glass surface.

Enameling both the convex sides and the flat case back of the Reverso One Precious Colours was a challenge, as the two areas required enamel with different viscosities in order to better adhere to the underside of the tire during firing . The control of color is also full of challenges: just like the artist mixes paint on the palette, the enameller needs to mix different metal oxide pigments together to blend the desired blue or green tone. However, the final processing result of the Grand Feu enamel process is unpredictable. The firing at a furnace temperature of 800 degrees Celsius will change some pigments, resulting in the inability to blend the expected color effect. The case of a Reverso One Precious Colours watch needs to be fired repeatedly 15 times, and also undergoes multiple steps of drying in an oven at 200 degrees Celsius. Only years of accumulated experience can calmly meet the above challenges, and the five enamel craftsmen in the Jaeger-LeCoultre Rare Craftsmanship (Métiers Rares®) workshop are all familiar with the "Geneva craftsmanship".

After the enamel process is completed, the case of the Reverso watch is handed over to the jewelry setter, who must use extraordinary precision to ensure that each diamond is set properly. Using the grain setting method, jewelry setters pull tiny gold prongs from a flat metal surface to hold each gemstone in place. During the setting process, the completed enamel decoration must not be damaged, or the straight lines that define the colored area and the gem setting area must not be crossed. The 274 diamonds adorning the Reverso One Precious Colors watch required 45 hours of meticulous work, while the enamelling process required more than 80 hours of work. The advantage of Jaeger-LeCoultre is that it has a handcrafted decoration workshop in a large workshop, bringing together multiple crafts under the same roof, so that different craftsmen can work closely, exchange ideas, and share their creative inspiration.

The movement housed in the case and powering the Reverso One Precious Colors watch is a testament to Jaeger-LeCoultre's commitment to excellence in mechanical craftsmanship. The Jaeger-LeCoultre 846 manual winding movement is completely independently developed and produced by the Grande Manufacture. It is specially designed for the Reverso series of watches. Adhering to the principle of integrity of Jaeger-LeCoultre works, the shape of the movement closely fits the outline of the rectangular case.