In 1931, in response to a challenge to create a watch that could survive a polo match, the companies that became Jaeger-LeCoultre, and their backers, introduced the Reverso, which is Latin for “I turn ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like "tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...