The Breguet Grandes Complications Watch Collection

The Breguet Classiques Grandes Complications watch collection embodies the horological essence of the legendary watchmaker, Abraham-Louis Breguet.  Paying homage to this genius, whose fertile mind invented the tourbillon and modernized the minute repeating mechanism (among many other important innovations), these Breguet watches display some of the most brilliant specialities in high watchmaking.  

 Featured prominently in the Breguet Classiques Grandes Complications watch collection are a variety of timepieces with the tourbillon complication.  Invented at the turn of the 18th century, Breguet's most famous creation lives on in a variety of interpretations, some of which are enriched with additional technical masterpieces, including the perpetual calendar with  moon phase, and the equation of time.  The master watchmakers of the house have even gone a step beyond, having recently introduced a a spectacular watch--the Breguet Ref. 5347PT/11/9ZU---whose dual tourbillons rotate on a central axis over a 12-hour interval. 

 The Breguet Classiques Grandes Complications watch collection also features other prestigious complications, including the minute repeater, whose extraordinarily complex mechanism is capable of translating the time shown on the dial into a series of perfectly tuned chimes which indicate the hour, quarter hour and minutes.  The equation of time is another awe-inspiring complication--in tandem with a perpetual calendar which displays day, date, month, and leap year, the equation of time unerringly shows the mathematical difference between true solar time and civil time.  
 
 These exceptional Breguet timepieces are connected to their forebearer not just by their extraordinary horological secrets, but also by their unmistakable and noble aesthetic details.  The case of each timepiece within the Breguet Classiques Grandes Complications watch collection is crafted entirely from the various colors of 18K gold, or platinum, and bears the distinctive fluted case band which is a hallmark of the Breguet style.  The dials, crafted from solid gold are painstakingly engraved with intricate guilloche patterns, and then silver plated.  The unique, handcrafted blued steel pomme-style hands are exactly in the form of those made famous by Breguet, and as a final touch, the Breguet "secret signature" found on the dial identifies each watch as a singular masterpiece, in the same manner as the works of art which sprang from the hand of Breguet himself.