Breguet

The Breguet Reveil Musical watch accommodates a one-of-a-kind patented musical mechanism, having used as the base the brand’s new self-winding movement equipped with a silicon escapement and a Breguet balance-spring.

To hear a crystal-clear tune played by the watch, its owner has to press the 10 o’clock push-piece or pre-set the alarm function and the tune will be played at the pre-set time.

This became possible via a patented application of a music-box mechanism principle. The traditional music-box cylinder has been replaced by a disc with the pins that alternately acts on the 15 metal teeth of the comb. The remarkable mechanism is enriched by a metallic glass membrane, which is manually engine-turned, and is used to amplify the frequencies necessary to emit the tune, and provides water-resistance.
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The Marie Antoinette No. 1160 pocket watch is rightfully considered to be a real masterpiece. In 2005, Nicolas G. Hayek, President and CEO of Montres Breguet, initiated the reproduction of the eponymous pocket watch that highlighted the history of the brand. The best watchmakers at Montres Breguet did an outstanding job, having recreated the extremely complicated timekeeper, having just documents at their disposal.

Breguet watch enthusiast, Marie Antoinette had her personal small collection of Breguet watches, with an automatic perpetual watch among them. In 1783, the company was pleased to receive a customized order from one of the Marie Antoinette’s admirers.

The customer wanted the Breguet watchmakers to create a timepiece that would possess all possible horological achievements of that time and be manufactured exclusively from gold.
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Breguet is the contemporary Swiss master of engraving by means of guilloche machine. This technique implies the process of engraving the wonderful patterns and textures on the dial of their every timepiece.

A large number of machines used for this purpose are either more than 100 years old, or they are in-house manufactured. The innovative Breguet Classique Ref. 5967 uses a Breguet-developed absolutely new guilloche pattern.

In fact, the pattern is not that new: professionals in the fields of carpentry, architecture and art have been using it for a long period of time. As to watchmaking, there has been adopted a new way of utilizing the guilloche machine for metal engraving. The name given to the pattern by Breguet is Art Deco Damier.

According to the manufacturers, it resembles a three- dimensional chess board. The stacked cubic design however can be interpreted in any other way.

The widths of the Ref. 5967 timepiece will constitute 41mm, presented in yellow gold, which is quite rarely used nowadays, with the exception of Breguet, or white gold.

This model demonstrates a movement not even intended for a watch. It accommodates a Frederic Piguet caliber 506.2 hand wound pocket watch movement, which can be seen through the caseback display.

The dial engraved with the Art Deco Damier pattern acquires a more up to date appearance, I suppose though that the reason for the basic pattern to look differently is its age of 200 years.

The Breguet watch has no seconds hand any longer. The length of the wonderful pomme hands made of blued steel perfectly matches with the size of the case.


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The minute repeater has never ceased to be a leader among horological complications. Top-ranked all over the world, the minute repeater has a complicated construction, the delicate parts of which can be fitted and adjusted by just a few competent master watchmakers only.

In 2008, Breguet presented a new design of these technological miracles, equipped with a completely reconstructed movement that incorporated new materials as well as featured newly fresh positions for gongs, gong rests and hammers.

Now, this patented technique is in use on Breguet minute repeater no. 7637. Its large case, sized 42 mm, performed in white or pink gold, accommodates a minute repeater movement, with the latter offering running seconds at 9 o’clock and a 24-hour sub-dial at 3 o’clock.

No repeater without chimes had been able before to produce the crystal-clear sound coming out of the case. The color of the gold gongs coincides with that of the case, while the hammers made of hard metal have been exposed to polishing and beveling - quite an achievement for such an unyielding material.

The manual-winding movement can be seen through the case back made of clear sapphire crystal. It has been completely subject to chasing by hand in the very style of Brequet. The dial of the Breguet watch is created in silvered 18K gold.


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In 2008, Breguet stunned the world of watchmaking, having introduced an innovative way of designing minute repeater watches. Breguet fitted its watches with re-created movements produced from new materials and the gongs, gong rests and hammers positioned in an innovative way. The patented technique is now used in Breguet minute repeater ref. 7639.

The case of the new Breguet watch measures 44.5 mm in diameter and is crafted in 18K white gold. It is set with 178 baguette-cut diamonds. The rounded horns are welded to the case, with screw pins securing the strap.

The 18K gold dial is paved with 392 princess-cut diamonds mounted upside down. The dial shows the individual number of the watch and the name of the brand. The open-tipped Breguet hands are created in blued steel.
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Breguet reveals a unique Grande Complication pocket watch, based on the thorough historical study and three years of technical development.

The timepiece demonstrates a 46mm 18K yellow gold case equipped with a movement composed of over 800 hand-finished pieces. The masterpiece provides a variety of complicated functions: minute repeater, equation of time, perpetual calendar, power reserve, jumping hours, and thermometer.

The Breguet Grand Complication Ref. 1160 watch is devoted to the legendary 'Marie Antoinette' watch, commissioned from Abraham-Louis Breguet for Queen Marie Antoinette of France, by her secret admirer. It was completed only four years after Breguet's death. read more

Up to the present day every Breguet watch is based upon exclusive design and inventive approach initiated by the brand's founder. The name of Breguet is associated with numerous innovations - perpetual calendar, chronograph, power reserve, para-chute, shock absorber and tourbillon. read more

Breguet, a renowned Swiss watch manufacturer, has presented its product for the 2009 Only Watch charity auction.

Model No. 1 in a limited edition of just seven pieces, the Breguet Classique travel clock demonstrates a case and handle performed in solid 950 sterling silver and hobnail-embellished gilt plates on both front and back sides.

Alongside with the time indicated on an engine-turned guilloche silver dial with blue-colored Brequet hands, the clock also offers a thermometer with a blued serpentine hand. This travel clock is animated by the Breguet manual winding 564/1 caliber, set with 17 jewels and characterized by a monometallic balance and lever escapement.

The silver Breguet Classique travel clock will be put up for auction in Monaco on September 24, 2009, as well as other exclusive and limited series timekeeping companions introduced by different world-famous watchmaking houses. The items unveiled will be auctioned without a reserve and all funds raised will be transferred to the Monegasque Association against Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

This is an organization, whose activity is dedicated to researches in the field of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disorder primarily affecting male children, which leads to a lethal outcome through atrophia of muscles related to the heart and respiratory organs.

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