Watch With Art Deco Damier Engraving from Brequet

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.