This year Breguet has launched a new addition to their Tradition collection but for women in the form of the Dame 7038. Althought it has all the classic Tradition attributes it is also a distinctly different watch with its… Read More ›
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BREGUET : Classique Hora Mundi Ref. 5727
This year has brought with it several new key releases from Breguet, including the latest iteration of the clever Hora Mundi, their Reference 5717 multiple time zone watch launched in 2011 that was the first mechanical jumping 24 city time… Read More ›
WRISTSPOTTING : Chechen-style
(Photo from RBC) In case you haven’t had enough of Russians and expensive watches, the folks at Russian website RBC have helpfully put together a gallery that they have called ‘Switzerland vs Russia’, with photos of officials/ politicians/ heads of state-owned… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2015 : Breguet Marine Chronographe Reference 5823 “200 ans de Marine”
The watch industry loves commemorating an anniversary with a watch. Today’s post is about a comparatively low key watch that marks something worth commemorating – the bicentenary of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s appointment, on October 27, 1815, as chronometer-maker to the Royal… Read More ›
AUCTION NEWS : Historic Breguet pieces return ‘home’
If you like watches and are in Paris, a visit to the Breguet Museum which forms part of the boutique at Place Vendôme is pretty much a given. When I visited it a few years ago, unfortunately they were mid-change… Read More ›
EXHIBITION : Breguet – inventor of the tourbillon
This year Montres Breguet is celebrating the Breguet tourbillon via a worldwide travelling exhibition that was launched at Geneva’s Cité du Temps during SIHH 2013, where it was on display for a month. Entitled “Breguet, the innovator. Inventor of the… Read More ›
Swatch buys case maker Simon Et Membrez
The Swatch Group has bought 100% of the shares in family-owned watch case maker Simon et Membrez in a move that it has described as “a seamless fit”. The shares were previously owned by Simon et Membrez CEO Philippe… Read More ›
Breguet acquires important Turkish pocket watch at auction
The Breguet Museum at Place Vendôme has acquired a historically important watch made in 1808 for a dignitary of the Ottoman Empire for CHF 650,000 (approx US$695,000), a record for a Turkish-style Breguet watch, and also a record for a… Read More ›
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