Horlogerie et aviation

Reverso with Amelia Earhart engraving (1935)
Amelia Earhart (1897-1939) is one of the most famous women in aviation history. In 1922, at the age of 25, she broke the feminine altitude record. In 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. She achieved an impressive number of world firsts and records until she disappeared somewhere in the Pacific in 1937 during a round-the-world flight attempt.
The Reverso was engraved after the first non-stop flight from Mexico to New York, on May 8th 1935, completed in 14 hours and 19 minutes. The lacquered engraving shows the oceans in green and the plane’s flight path in red.