The polo field was the birthplace of one of the most inventive luxury watches ever designed, the Reverso by Jaeger-LeCoultre. A true sport watch, the Reverso was the brainchild of businessman César de Trey.

After watching British military officers play poloin India in 1930, de Trey sought to find a way to protect players' wrist watches from the obvious risks that went along with riding horses at high speeds while swinging a mallet.

He approached Jacques-David LeCoultre with an idea about a case that could be flipped over, and the two engaged French designer René-Alfred Chauvot. On March 4, 1931, Chauvot filed an application with the Paris patent office registering "a watch capable of sliding in its support and being completely turned over."

Nine months later, the Reverso was born.

The Reverso's subtle art deco lines and unique, pioneering reversible casehave made it one of the world's most recognizable watches. The inventiveness and ingenuity found in the original live on today in the Jaeger-LeCoultre collection, which includes the Monoface, the Duetto and the Duoface. Like the original, the Monoface flips from a single watchface to a blank surface, allowing for personalizationwith monograms, emblems and messages created using lacquer, hand-engraving or enamel. The Duetto Reverso features two faces, allowing the wearer to flip between them at will. The Duoface Reverso boasts two dials that display two different time zones powered remarkably by a single movement. Two elegant examples of the Duoface are the Reverso Classic and the Reverso Tribute.