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New Breguet Type XXI 3817

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Many of us associate the name Breguet with watchmaking milestones, but fewer may be aware of its historic connection to the world of aviation. Louis Charles Breguet, great grandson of horology icon Abraham-Louis Breguet, was an aeronautical pioneer who developed the gyroplane (forerunner of today’s helicopters) as well as the storied Breguet XIV and Deux-Points airplanes in the early 20th century, the golden age of aviation innovation. The Breguet watch company, still run at the time by the founding family, worked with Louis Charles’s firm in the development of, first, chronograph mechanisms for cockpit instrument panels and then, in 1935, its first chronograph wristwatches for pilots. The most famous of these, the Breguet Type XX, made its debut two decades later. Commissioned by the French armed forces, this timepiece would be the watch of choice for the French air force and naval pilots up until the 1980s.

The modern collection that evolved from this enduring icon, the Breguet Type XXI, added a new model at Baselworld 2016: the Breguet Type XXI 3817, which not only boasts an all-new slate-gray dial but also, for the first time in this vintage aviation-inspired collection, a see-through sapphire caseback.

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Introducing Breguet Type XX

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Some of my favorite watches are the pieces that most people don’t necessarily associate with a particular brand. It’s the reason why I often prefer vintage (think original IWC Portugieser or ’60s Heuer Carreras), and it’s a large contributing factor in why the modern Grand Seiko line has become one of my favorite contemporary collections. These pieces are different not for difference’s sake, but because they represent either a different era, a different angle, or both, for the brand in question. Another such series, in my opinion, is the Breguet Type XX— a watch model so dissimilar from the luxuriously designed tourbillons and general high-complication identity of that brand that it would not be surprising for some to mistake these watches as part of, perhaps even the flagship of, some other manufacturer’s lineup.

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A Rare And Superb Breguet Subscription Set Of Watches – Lot 163

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This lot 163 (listed here) is certainly our biggest crush. They are uncommon but not extremely rare (300 pieces), it is rather old but not yet vintage (manufactured in 1991) but it is simply beautiful. This Breguet Subscription set pays tribute to the early watches created by Abraham Louis Breguet. It is composed of two timepieces of an exceptional quality. The first and most noticeable one is of course this modern pocket watch made with all the respect due to the founder of the manufacture (and one of the founders of the modern horology) in an extremely faithful way. The gold, hand-guilloché dial displays the time, the power reserve, the moon-phases and the date. However, the most exciting part is beneath the dial. The movement is the replica of an antique movement with bumper mass in platinum and hand-finished, frosted, gold bridges.

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Historic Breguet No. 3519, 4111 Pocket Watches & No. 2655 Carriage Clock Hands-On

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Abraham-Louis Breguet is regarded as as the most effective watchmakers ever - and not if the requires the opinion of watch fans, fanatics, or journalists, but furthermore inside the eyes of most likely the very best watchmakers and designers nowadays. Breguet’s title remains synonymous with the tourbillon, although his behave as a specialist watchmaking company offers quite a bit more to supply than merely one famous invention. Between September 2015 and also the month of the month of january 2016, the Legion of Recognition building in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Bay Area will host the Breguet: Art and Innovation within the the watchmaking industry industry exhibition, studying the work and good status for Breguet, additionally for you to get the only real finest selection of his work ever displayed inside the Americas.

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