On Saturday 10 October, the exhibition 'Maharaja: The Splendour of India' - Royal Courts' Exhibition", which will end on 17 January 2010 Here it will be possible to admire two of the most extraordinary watches by Jaeger-LeCoultre: an enamelled Reverso depicting the Hindu deity Rama from 1949 and an engraved Reverso with the crest of the Sawai Man Guards from 1933
Those wondering about the link between the Swiss House and India may have missed the fact that the Reverso was created in 1931 for British naval officers stationed in India, who played polo and needed a timepiece that could withstand the hard knocks of a match.
The land of Mughal miniatures was the inspiration for the first enamelled Reverso. The art of enamel miniature painting is the rarest and most precious of all the pictorial arts, requiring weeks of intense concentration, patience, meticulous precision, extraordinary dexterity and, above all, time.
So, chapeau to the Maison de Le Sentier!
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