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    • Breguet

    Breguet is a Swiss luxury watch and was founded in 1775. Today, Breguet is owned by the Swatch Group (Blancpain, Harry Winston, Omega, Longines, Swatch) and is one of the most historical manufacturers. Breguet has been credited with numerous inventions, such as the 1810 Breguet wrist watch as the world’s first such product, and Abraham-Louis Breguet’s invention of the tourbillon.

    The Breguet hands are the blue pomme hands only found on Breguet watches. Many celebrities, sports stars and explorers favor Breguet watches over other brands. Notably features of a Breguet watch are coin-edge case, guilloché dial and sometimes the most difficult complications of watchmaking.

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    Showing at WatchTime New York 2021: The Refreshed Breguet Marine Collection

    WatchTime New York 2021 is less than a month away, returning for the sixth time to Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 22-24. Among the more than 25 participating watch brands set to display their newest timepieces is historical haute-horology watch maison Breguet, which will be showcasing its recently refreshed Marine Collection. After a relatively quiet...

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    Sep 25, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Rarefied Air: The History of the Breguet Type XX Collection

    The Breguet family revolutionized watchmaking in the 19th century and aviation in the 20th. The modern Type XX collection is the culmination of its multi-generational savoir faire in both fields. We explore the history of this storied watch model in this feature from our July-August 2020 issue.

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    Sep 23, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    A Brief History of the Mechanical Watch’s Fight Against Magnetism

    From our sister website, WatchTime Middle East, a look at how watchmaking has countered the threat of magnetism over the years, from using metals like palladium in 1915 to silicon in 2015. Magnetism has been the mechanical timekeeping’s nemesis through the years. It is to the mechanical watch what Prof. Moriarty is to Sherlock Holmes.  Though the...

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    Sep 20, 2021 by WatchTime

    On Time, Off-Center: Five Watches With Asymmetrical Time Displays

    Most watches, even those equipped with numerous complications, still place the primary timekeeping indications — hours, minutes, and seconds — in the center of their dials and strive for symmetry in their overall design. Here are a handful of timepieces that do it differently. A. LANGE & SÖHNE LANGE 1 No listing of timepieces with...

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    Sep 10, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    FEATURE

    Wake-Up Call: Five Watches With Mechanical Alarms

    They’re not as sexy as tourbillons or as impressively complicated as perpetual calendars, but mechanical alarm watches possess one of the more useful complications for a weary traveler or an overworked executive needing a reminder about that big board meeting. In a way, it’s curious that more watch brands haven’t embraced them. Here are five that are on the market now.

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    Aug 19, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    When in Rome: Five Watches with Roman Numeral Dials

    Roman numerals are mostly reserved these days for movie sequels and Super Bowls, but they can still add a hint of elegant classicism to a watch dial, as in the five timepieces we showcase here. BLANCPAIN VILLERET ULTRAPLATE Blancpain’s Villeret series, named for the Swiss village where the manufacture was founded in 1735, is distinguished...

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    Jul 26, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Breguet Flies New Colors With Launch of Type XXI 3815 in Titanium

    Breguet’s Type XX collection of pilot-inspired chronographs are a modern testament to the Swiss watchmaker’s familial connections to the world of aviation, forged by the founder’s great-great-grandson Louis-Charles Breguet, a pioneer in the field of manned flight. Following up the most recent addition to that sport-luxury collection, 2016’s vintage-influenced Type XXI 3817, Breguet this year...

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    Jun 23, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    The Next Wave: Breguet Refreshes Marine Collection with Three New Watches

    After a relatively quiet first half of 2021, Breguet this month is aiming to rejoin the watch-world conversation by refocusing on its nautical-inspired Marine collection and introducing three new timepieces. The new watches, which include the rose-gold Marine 5517, blue-dial Marine Chronographe 5527, and Marine Alarme Musicale 5547, represent the first update to the series...

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    Jun 7, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

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    Progress Through Technology: 10 Tourbillon Watches with High-Tech Designs

    Audi’s "progress through technology" motto also applies to the importance of the tourbillon for watch design, because this eye-catching complication greatly enhances a timepiece’s visual appeal. From our Special Design Issue, here are 10 highly technical tourbillon watches.

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    Mar 12, 2021 by Alexander Krupp

    FEATURE

    How Green is My Watch? How Watch Brands Are Embracing Sustainability

    Sustainability is the topic of the hour. But how committed is the watch industry to ethical and ecological responsibility? We explore several interesting solutions in this feature from the WatchTime archives.

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    Jan 11, 2021 by Maria-Bettina Eich

    2020, The Watch Year in Review: 10 Tantalizing Tourbillon Watches

    It goes without saying: 2020 was far from an ideal year for most of us. Looking back, however, it was also a year that brought many noteworthy watch launches despite the huge obstacles posed by the pandemic and its effects on the world economy. As we look ahead hopefully to 2021, it’s time for our...

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    Dec 29, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    WatchTime’s Holiday Gift Guide for the Watch-Collecting Renaissance Man

    The holidays are close, and while a new watch or two (or three or four) might be on the minds and lists of many WatchTime readers, most of us are also interested in other accessories of the good life outside of watches proper. Over the course of the year, we have come across a number...

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    Dec 21, 2020 by WatchTime

    Showing at WatchTime Live 2020: Breguet Tradition Quantième Retrograde 7597

    Established in 2005, Breguet’s Tradition collection pays tribute to the one-handed “subscription” pocketwatches invented by founder Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1796, and their successors, the so-called “tact” watches, by placing major movement components on top of the mainplate alongside an off-centered subdial. The newest addition to the collection, the Tradition Quantième Retrograde 7597, will be featured...

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    Oct 20, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    Back to the Foundation: Breguet Classique Double Tourbillon 5345 Quai de L’Horloge

    Who says you can't go home again? Breguet, the haute horlogerie timepiece manufacturer founded by visionary 18th-century watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, has built much of its modern collection upon its namesake's historical invention, the tourbillon. The newest of them pays the most direct tribute yet to the founder and to the Parisian atelier where he created his early masterpieces.

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    Sep 29, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    Heritage Revisited: Breguet Tradition Automatique Seconde Retrograde 7097 and Tradition 7038

    Established in 2005, Breguet’s Tradition collection pays tribute to the one-handed “subscription” pocketwatches invented by founder Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1796, and their successors, the so-called “tact” watches, by placing major movement components on top of the mainplate alongside an off-centered subdial. As part of its new offerings for 2020, Breguet has unveiled two new timepieces...

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    Jul 6, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    Golden Voyagers: Breguet Sets Sail With New Marine Models On Gold Bracelets

    Breguet rolled out a major revamp of its maritime-influenced sport-luxury Marine collection in 2018 and has been adding colorways and materials to it ever since. The latest evolution of the Marine family, which takes its inspiration from the marine chronometers invented by brand founder Abraham-Louis Breguet in the 18th Century for the French Royal Navy,...

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    Jun 12, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    FEATURE

    Back to the Sea: Exploring the Breguet Marine Collection

    In 2018, Breguet decided to focus almost entirely on building out its Marine collection, which also included the support of an initiative for the preservation of the ocean worldwide. We had the opportunity to briefly set sail with the new collection.

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    May 19, 2020 by Roger Ruegger

    TIME-OUT FROM PANDEMIC COVERAGE

    Glued to the TV News? Here are the Watches Launched in March You May Have Missed

    We know… the current worldwide health and economic crisis and the wall-to-wall media coverage of it has many of us a bit distracted to think much about our beloved wristwatches. Good news from the watch industry, not to mention new product releases, seem few and far between in this unprecedented year in which major trade...

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    Apr 6, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

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    Breguet Unveils Marine Tourbillon Équation Marchante 5887

    Breguet, best known for its exquisite haute horologerie and storied history, has added to its list of 2020 releases a new colorway for its Marine Tourbillon Équation Marchante 5887 watch. This is the first update to the 5887 design since the design’s initial release in 2017, which included a rose-gold case/silver-dial model as well as...

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    Mar 28, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

    NEWS

    Breguet Updates Classique Collection with Two New Colorways

    Last week, haute horologerie watchmaker Breguet unveiled the first of its 2020 releases, which include updates to the traditional-focused Classique collection. The updates include two new colorways for its 7337 and 7137 references, one with a new white-gold case and “Breguet” blue dial option, the other with a rose-gold case and silver dial combination. Like...

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    Mar 24, 2020 by Caleb Anderson
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