Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso GranSport Chronographe Retrograde Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/jaeger-lecoultre/#watches The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is JLC's corporate icon. Like the Submariner to Rolex or the Navitimer to Breitling, the Reverso is the one watch that symbolizes Jaeger-LeCoultre to the watch enthusiast fraternity. And the Reverso Gran'Sport Chronographe Retrograde is a member of JLC's first family of watches. Originally designed as a solution for boisterous British polo players in India (the reverse side of the watch was shatterproof steel, not glass), today's Reverso is a double-sided platform for additional complications. The Reverso Gran'Sport Chronographe Retrograde offers users two watches in one. On the main dial, hours, minutes, seconds, and a jumping date provide the essential readings that owners expect of their "daily driver" watch. A helpful marche/arret indicator clarifies the operational status of the signature complication… But rotate the famous Reverso case, and a second independent dial appears. An in-house JLC chronograph movement powers the 30-minute retrograde minutes display and radial seconds dial. Exquisite hobnail guilloche and a two-tone dial treatment express the chronograph in a fashion that is visually and functionally distinct from the civil time on the opposite face. Jaeger-LeCoultre intended for the 1998-2006 Reverso Gran'Sport Chronographe Retrograde to be a gateway Reverso for younger luxury watch buyers who had grown up with Rolex, Omega, and Breitling sports watches. The 50m wa