Jaeger-LeCoultre marks the upcoming Lunar Year of the Horse with three new Reverso Tribute Enamel watches in white gold, combining the Maison’s polo-inspired origins with Chinese artistic tradition. Each caseback is hand-painted with a miniature enamel reproduction of works by Xu Beihong, the celebrated 20th-century artist renowned for his dynamic depictions of horses. On the dial side, hand-guilloché patterns and grand feu enamel create a vivid interplay of texture and colour, echoing themes from Chinese landscape painting.
The collection highlights Xu Beihong’s legacy, who merged Chinese ink-and-wash traditions with European artistic training to capture vitality, movement, and symbolism. Three designs bring his horses to life in miniature: The Running Horse, symbolising majesty and resilience, paired with green grand feu enamel over a sunray pattern guilloché pattern; Two Horses, expressing energy and harmony, set against translucent blue grand feu enamel over a barley-seed guilloché; and The Standing Horse, embodying nobility and latent strength, presented with orange grand feu enamel over a herringbone guilloché pattern.
Each enamel miniature, reduced from metre-wide originals to just 2 cm², requires 80 hours of painting by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Métiers Rares™ artisans. Powered by the manual Calibre 822, each version is limited to only 10 pieces each.
