If there is a watch that can make one feel like an early 20th Century dandy, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Ultrathin Duoface delivers this in spades, and then some. The story goes that British soldiers stationed in India were sick of their watches being smashed up by the roughness of the game of Polo, and so requested Jaeger-LeCoultre to come up with a fix. The solution – a reversible case with a stainless steel back to endure the hits. As an object of its time, the watch was styled in the Art Deco movement, with its signature fluting at the top and bottom of the case.

The Grande Reverso Ultra Thin Duoface not only carries on this iconic design, but adds a second dial on the reverse side of the case, a feature introduced to the Reverso line in 1994. The Recto side is executed in the same style as the original 1931 Reverso, albeit in white colour with black bar markers and black sword hands, as well as a rectangular subsidiary seconds indication. Branding is minimal on this side of the dial, with only the word “Reverso” on the dial – another nod to the original Reverso.

Flipping the case around, we find a black dial ornamented with Clous de Paris branded with Jaeger-LeCoultre, and this is where we find the second time zone indication. The sword hands and the 24 hour subdial can be changed in one-hour increments with the pusher above the crown, making it an amazingly convenient watch to live with when travelling. The wearer can either have the second time zone on the reverse dial or, they can do what I personally do, and have the local time on the white dial, and home time on the black dial.

Either way you decide to wear it, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Ultrathin Duoface Review combines a classicism directly from the 1930s with the convenience of multiple timezones for the traveller.