Pink Gold With a Black Dial

This JLC Reverso replica follows the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Small Seconds Ref. Q713257J in pink gold, and the name settles one thing first: “rose gold” is the metal, not the face. The dial is black, with applied gold baton markers, gold hands and a thin gold track around the perimeter. Small seconds sit in a recessed round counter at six o’clock, and there is one dial, with no second display on the reverse.

How Black Reads Against Gold

A light dial borrows contrast from its case; a black one supplies its own. Gold batons and gold hands sit on a black base, so every bright element is the same metal as the case and the watch reads as one gold object with a dark window in it. At arm’s length the batons register first, so how cleanly they are cut carries the dial.

Reflections behave differently too. Polished pink gold on the case flanks throws light inward; a pale face scatters it and washes out, while black absorbs it and the markers hold their contrast. The thin gold track draws a line where black meets metal, so a 45.6 x 27.4 mm dial keeps its edge instead of dissolving into the case at those long corners.

What Drives It

This JLC Reverso super clone runs a clone Cal. 822/2, manual-wind, 21,600 vph, matching the genuine Q713257J, which uses the hand-wound Cal. 822/2 at 21,600 vph with 19 jewels. The caliber is shaped, not round, which this case needs: the Tribute is 27.4 mm across, so a round movement of the usual 26 mm diameter leaves nothing at the edges and pulls the small seconds off the six o’clock axis.

Power reserve is 40 hours against 42 hours on the genuine caliber, and water resistance is 30 m, the same as genuine. Winding by hand also keeps the profile flat, with no rotor adding height to an 8.5 mm genuine profile: a Tier-1 replica stays inside 0.5 mm of that figure, while 11 to 13 mm shows from across a table. Chinese quartz or a DG2813 marks the cheap grade of this case.

Black on gold is the darkest face in the Tribute family, and the steel and silvered alternatives show what the identical case looks like once that contrast is taken out. Gold carries more risk on a replica than steel, and that risk is graded model by model in the best Jaeger-LeCoultre super clones.

Specifications

• Model: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Small Seconds
• Reference: Q713257J
• Case: pink gold, 45.6 x 27.4 mm
• Case thickness: within 0.5 mm of the genuine 8.5 mm
• Dial: black, applied gold baton markers, gold hands, gold perimeter track
• Small seconds: recessed counter at 6 o’clock
• Crystal: sapphire with anti-reflective coating
• Movement: clone Cal. 822/2, manual-wind, 21,600 vph
• Power reserve: 40 hours (genuine Cal. 822/2: 42 hours)
• Water resistance: 30 m (same as genuine)
• Strap: black textured, textile-like finish
• SKU: JLC-47

Gold Case, Textile Strap

The black textured strap changes what the gold is for. Its surface reads closer to dense textile than polished calf, matte and dry, absorbing light where the case returns it; gold over a dry grain goes under a jacket sleeve more easily than gold over glossy leather. The band repeats the dial too: black against gold at the wrist, the pairing already under the crystal, leaving the metal as the only bright element from either direction.