Reverso Classic Small Stainless Steel / Silver / Bracelet

In Context

At 21 mm this is jewellery scale — a watch sized to be worn as an ornament rather than read across a room. The 7.4 mm case is genuinely slim and goes under a shirt cuff without argument. The case back is closed, so the movement stays out of sight, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. Rated to 30 m, it is protected against rain and splashes and nothing beyond that.

The movement is hand-wound, so winding it becomes part of the day rather than something the watch does for you. Its 38-hour reserve wants wearing most days; leave it off and it stops. At 21,600 vph the seconds hand advances 6 times a second, the slower and more audible rate of an older design.

Q2608140 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a silver guilloche dial with a stainless steel case.

The 846/1 is the small hand-wound movement of the Grande Reverso Lady Ultra Thin. It has 93 parts, two hands and a 38-hour reserve in a rectangular caliber built for a thin case. It powers 27 watches in this library. It beats at 21,600 vph with 18 jewels and shows hours and minutes only, which keeps the movement thin and the dial uncluttered. The Reverso's rectangular case needs a rectangular movement, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has made its own for the watch since 1931; the 846 family is the ladies' size of that tradition. In the library it powers 25 [Reverso](/brands/jaeger-lecoultre/reverso) references, the Grande Reverso Lady Ultra Thin in steel and pink gold with case widths from 19.5 mm to 24 mm, and 2 [Rendez-Vous](/brands/jaeger-lecoultre/rendez-vous) references. 3 are limited editions. The [822](/calibers/jaeger-lecoultre-822) is the men's hand-wound Reverso movement, the [844](/calibers/jaeger-lecoultre-844) the version that drives two dials for the Duetto, and the [657](/calibers/jaeger-lecoultre-657) the quartz alternative in the same cases.

26 other watches in the library run the Jaeger-LeCoultre 846/1.

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Reverso Lady Ostrich

2608411 · 19.5 mm

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Rendez-Vous Secret

3553307 · 24 mm

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Reverso One Precious Flowers Pink Gold

Q3292434 · 20 mm

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Reverso Lady

2608412 · 19.5 mm