Created for polo players so they could protect the face of their precious timepiece from the brutal impacts often suffered during the course of four to eight chukkas (the periods of play into which a polo match is divided), the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso could thus lay a convincing claim to being one of the world’s very first sports watches given its conception dates back to 1931. An aesthetic advantage of the recognizable sliding case construction was the considerable space available provided by the closed case back for customization.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the Reverso’s initial target audience and the likelihood that those