JLC has always been one of the watch makers I liked best, and in my collection of around 30 watches, it has the biggest share with 5 pieces (Reverso Duoface, Master Ultra Thin, Master Geographic, Master Hometime, and now the Reverso Memory).
The Reverso Duoface was the first good watch I owned, and until today it's my favorite piece, even if it is by far not the most expensive one in the collection.
While the feature of having two dials obviously defeats the original purpose of the Reverso of protecting the crystal by flipping it over, I was always fascinated by having two dials with different displays/complications and felt tht this is the best use of the Reverso case mechanism.
The Reverso Memory was a watch I had been interested in a long time, and I had a few opportunities to get one over the last 10 years. But each time there was another watch which was a bit higher on my list due to the fact that the Memory would have created a bit of a redundancy with the Duoface. Nevertheless I looked out for it continuously, and at the end of last year, another one popped up in one of my searches, and this time, the timing was perfect, so I finally ordered it.
The recto side of the watch offer hours, minutes and seconds. All three hands are blued and filled with lume. While this may seem to be a rather unusul combination for a modern dress watch, it gives the watch a nice vintage/sportive charme, and it also makes sense given the complication of the other side. The verso side has a continuously running 60-minute hand (also with lume) which can be reset to zero by pressing on the pusher on the side of the case. While this is obviously not as useful as a real chronograph function, I expect it to be useful enough in everyday life, where measuring time intervals in minutes is sufficient, like measuring parking times etc. It's somewhat similar to the Zenith Retrotimer, which I also like quite a bit.
Since I don't have a good camera, and am not good at taking pictures anyway, I will refer to the following post by AndrewD which has some excellent pictures of another Reverso Memory.
jlc.watchprosite.com
Instead, I will talk a bit about the wearability and in particular the size of the watch.
In the pictures below, you can see how the Memory compares to the Duoface, which itself is rather on the small side. As you can see, the Memory is a bit thicker, but it is smaller in length and width.