![]() The exquisitely formed and angled surfaces boast a combination of polished and brushed finishes. ![]() The classical Reverso case elements are all there, including the gadroons framing the top and bottom of the dial and wrapping around the case’s sleek edges. The case is rather large (41 x 35 mm, not quite a perfect square), fairly thick (13 mm), and made of Grade 5 titanium. The Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Squadra World Chronograph is a sportier version of the classic rectangular Reverso. After an inquiry, the team at Shopworn - eager to tout the quality of its constantly updated “luxury trunk show” products - agreed to send me one for a few days to review. ![]() Among these I found the most interesting and complicated of the Squadra models, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Squadra World Chronograph, originally released in 2006. The website claims to be “the only ecommerce website exclusively selling designer display-model watches, jewelry, and accessories sourced from authorized retailers around the world.” This means the watches on the site are not pre-owned per se, as in they are gently used, like-new models that have only been on display at an authorized boutique (and priced, of course, at a significant discount).Ī scroll through Shopworn’s list of watch models for sale yielded a wealth of models, many current, but others falling into that “what ever happened to…?” category, including discontinued and/or recently redesigned models from Girard-Perregaux, Hublot, Omega, Oris, Tudor, and Ulysse Nardin - even examples of the circa-2013 IWC Ingenieur, just this year displaced by a redesigned version. ![]() I took an instant liking to the Squadra’s masculine proportions and angular aesthetics, but I was apparently in the relative minority, as the collection is, eleven years later, no longer a cornerstone of the still-rich JLC portfolio, and thus not immediately available from the company for a review.įortunately, as I’ve discovered, there are resources outside the traditional retailers and auctioneers, such as the so-called “luxury consignment sites” - in the case of this review watch, one called. In my very first issue as an editor of WatchTime, we covered the introduction of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Squadra, a square-cased version of the rectangular-cased classic Reverso. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Squadra World Chronograph ![]()
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