The manufacture is launching models in pink gold and steel.

In 1996, Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced a chronograph to its complicated Reverso line. The model limited to 500 pieces surprised collectors by fitting this popular function into a compact case measuring 26 mm × 42 mm.

In order to achieve this feat, the engineers had to reposition indications on the dial: the upper half of the dial was dominated by the large chronograph seconds ring, while the base of the dial was reserved for the retrograde 30-minute arc for the chronograph minutes.

The manually wound Cal. 829 movement measuring 26.8 mm × 23.3 mm had a 40-hour power reserve, and the chronograph mechanism used particularly long levers spanning the entire movement to the column wheel.

Details of the movement were partially openworked and only partially decorated with the Côtes de Genève stripes. So what's changed in 2023? Not only does the new Reverso Tribute Chronograph come in pink gold like the 1996 model, now it's also available in steel.

A new Caliber 860 movement with its power reserve extended to 52 hours was developed to be housed in the novelty's 49.4 mm × 29.9 mm case. It's still a manually wound movement that uses a long lever and column wheel. In order to keep the case height to just 11.14 mm, this movement uses a horizontal clutch instead of a vertical arrangement.

The reverse dial has been openworked. Moreover, it now has an hour-minute display with two hands like the subtle front dial display. The company says the new movement measures 5.5 mm in height. For the sake of comparison, the movement from 1996 measured 4.5 mm in height.

The steel version sports a gray-blue dial while the pink-gold edition has a black one. No limit has been set for either version.