Maison 47 of 100 · Haute Horology
Jaeger-LeCoultre
The reading
The Reverso is Art Deco intellectual property. Historically the supplier of movements to houses that did not admit it. Now a face brand with 1,200+ in-house calibres in the archive.
The house
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1833
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- Richemont
- Signature
- Reverso / Master Ultra Thin
- Register note
- Watchmaker’s watchmaker This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
Its stablemates here are Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget, Buccellati, Vacheron Constantin, A. Lange & Söhne, and two more — nine Richemont houses in all. Haute Horology holds eighteen houses here, and this is the 7th of them. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 12th of a hundred. Switzerland puts sixteen maisons into this register, the third-largest national group, and this is one of them. Fourteen of the Switzerland maisons here are filed under Haute Horology: Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille, Vacheron Constantin, eight more and this one.