Two Dials, One Movement

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duoface Small Seconds Ref. Q3982590 is the rose gold member of the family, 47 x 28.3 mm and 9.613 mm thick on the genuine watch. Duoface means what the name says: the rectangular case carries a dial on each side and pivots in its cradle, so the face that lay against the wrist becomes the one read. This JLC Reverso replica follows that rose gold reference, with a blue sunray dial, applied gold baton markers, a thin gold track around the perimeter, small seconds at six, gold hands and a blue smooth leather strap.

What Is on the Reverse

Only one dial is visible at a time. The blue sunray side is what the front photographs show; the second dial sits on the back of the same case and appears once it is swung out of its cradle and turned. Nothing is pressed or pulled to change the reading: the case itself is the switch, and on a Tier 1 build it seats with a clean click. A reverse dial missing from frontal shots is simply how a two-sided Reverso photographs.

Driving Both Faces

Movement: clone Cal. 854A/2, manual-wind, 21,600 vph (genuine Cal. 854A/2: manual-wind, 21,600 vph, 19 jewels, shaped, 3.8 mm thick). The caliber in this JLC Reverso super clone copies the genuine shaped layout instead of dropping a round movement into a rectangle: a case 28.3 mm wide leaves no room for a round plate, and the small seconds would not land exactly at six. One mainspring feeds both faces, the reverse dial taking its drive through the second-dial module geared off the same train, so one winding keeps two displays running. Two faces sharing one budget is why the reserve here is 40 hours against the genuine 42. A cheap build of this reference goes the other way: a Chinese quartz or a DG2813 behind the dial, and a case 11-13 mm thick instead of the half millimetre a Tier 1 case holds against the genuine 9.613 mm.

Duoface and single-dial Tributes differ in thickness, reserve and price rather than in styling, and both branches are laid out in the JLC Reverso catalogue. If the question is whether a second face is the best use of the money, the JLC clone ranking in full answers it against everything else the brand makes.

Specifications

• Model: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duoface Small Seconds
• Reference: Q3982590
• Case material: rose gold
• Case, genuine: 47 x 28.3 mm, 9.613 mm thick
• Dial: blue sunray, applied gold baton markers, gold perimeter track
• Small seconds: 6 o’clock
• Reverse: second dial, Duoface
• Hands: gold
• Movement: clone Cal. 854A/2, manual-wind, 21,600 vph (genuine Cal. 854A/2: manual-wind, 21,600 vph, 19 jewels)
• Power reserve: 40 hours (genuine Cal. 854A/2: 42 hours)
• Crystal: sapphire
• Water resistance: 30 m (same as genuine)
• Strap: blue smooth leather
• SKU: JLC-53

Duoface or Small Seconds

A second dial earns its millimetres if two readings from one watch is something the wrist will use. The one-sided Reverso Tribute Small Seconds in this catalogue answers the opposite case: genuine 45.6 x 27.4 mm, 8.5 mm thick, hand-wound Cal. 822/2 rated 42 hours, and a clone of that same caliber, manual-wind at 21,600 vph and quoted at 40 hours, with nothing on the back but metal. It sits over a millimetre flatter, and one winding serves one face. The Q3982590 trades two hours of reserve for the dial no photograph shows.