BREGUET – Classique Phase de Lune Dame 9088 White Gold

BREGUET – Classique Phase de Lune Dame 9088 White Gold NEW

Pre-Baselworld 2016

Breguet reinvents chic with a new 

Classique Phase de Lune for women

In a world preview, Breguet unveils its pre-Basel highlight for 2016, a Classique timepiece adorned with one of the most poetic complications in watchmaking: the moon phase. The Classique Phase de Lune Dame 9088 takes its place among the brand’s timeless women’s watches. It both captures the quintessential Breguet style and perpetuates the House tradition of devoting its mastery of watchmaking to women.

With its Classique Phase de Lune Dame 9088, Breguet enhances its collection of timepieces for women with a watch of timeless elegance. Its pure lines faithfully reproduce the hallmarks that have ensured the success of the House for over 240 years. Both discreet and remarkable, this white-gold watch, measuring 30 mm in diameter, features exquisitely fluted sides and a dial in white ‘grand feu’ enamel. The latter is adorned with Arabic numerals, also known as ‘Breguet numerals’ in reference to the founder of the House, who designed them in 1783. The minutes track, made up of tiny stars, together with stylised fleurs-de-lys for the five-minute fractions are another homage to the Breguet watchmaking tradition. The blued-steel hours and minutes hands of this Classique Phase de Lune Dame are inspired by the famous open-tipped Breguet hands also invented in 1783. Here, they have been redesigned and complement the enamel dial perfectly.

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The display of information is completed by a small-seconds hand and moon-phase aperture at 6 o’clock. The elegance of this timepiece is enhanced by a series of sublimely delicate brilliant-cut diamonds that grace the bezel and lugs. To ensure its female clientele are spoilt for choice, Breguet also offers this Classique Phase de Lune Dame in a rose-gold version, and a non-gem-set version. In addition, the House has also produced a model featuring natural mother-of-pearl that has been engine-turned by hand, complete with Breguet hands and Roman numerals, in white or rose gold, either gem-set or non-gem-set. The brand has thus added a total of eight models to its Classique collection and women’s range.

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On a more technical note, the Classique Phase de Lune Dame houses the Breguet 537L calibre, a self-winding mechanical movement equipped with a silicon escapement and spiral. As is customary, Breguet once again devotes its technical developments and watchmaking expertise to women. Visible through a sapphire crystal case back, the movement of this timepiece reveals a range of finishes that reflect the highest Haute Horlogerie tradition. ‘Côtes de Genève’ decorative ribbing graces the bridges, while the gold oscillating weight is adorned with ‘barley grain’ engine-turning.

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Technical Specifications

Model: Classique Dame 9068 White Gold
Reference: 9088BB/29/964 DD00

Case:
18-carat white gold with a finely fluted case band.
Bezel and lugs set with 66 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 1,04 ct).
Sapphire crystal case back.
Diameter of 30 mm.
Welded lugs with screw bars.
Water-resistant to 3 bars (30 m).
Dial:
‘Grand feu’ enamel.
Individually numbered and signed Breguet.
Hours circle with Arabic numerals.
Moon-age and -phase indicator, plus small seconds at 6 o’clock.
Breguet open-tipped hands in blued steel.
Movement:
Mechanical, self-winding.
Numbered and signed Breguet. Cal. 537L. 83/4 lines.
26 jewels. 45-hour power reserve.
In-line Swiss lever escapement in silicon.
Silicon spiral. Frequency of 3.5 Hz.
Adjusted in 6 positions.
Strap in leather.
Also available in rose gold:
Reference: 9088BR/29/964 DD00

Also available in a non-gem-set version:
Reference: 9087BB/29/964

Also available with dial in natural, engine-turned mother-of-pearl:
Reference: 9088BB/52/964 DD00

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BVLGARI – IL GIARDINO NOTTURNO White Gold 37 mm

BVLGARI – Bvlgari Bvlgari IL GIARDINO NOTTURNO White Gold 37 mm

IL GIARDINO NOTTURNO

Drawing their inspiration from the history of jewellery, the dials of Bvlgari watches are testimony to a proven mastery in the most elegant decorative techniques. A collection of exceptional watches reveals the most prestigious decorative craft techniques that the Maison has been promoting and perpetuating for more than 130 years.

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Everything starts with a sketch, a drawing that commits the chosen theme, the story to be told, to paper. That of the Maison BVLGARI has been in the writing for more than 130 years. In step with its boundless creativity, themes dear to the jeweller have been transformed into endearing points of reference that are powerful reminders of its identity. A rich and fascinating universe that finds a new expression at the heart of a collection of complicated watches. I GIARDINI DI BVLGARI feature the emblematic motifs of the Naturalia collection, produced using the techniques of champleve, miniature painting, mother-of-pearl – or stone – marquetry and gemsetting. This year the jeweller unveils IL GIARDINO NOTTURNO. A garden in which the night sky reveals a stylised (Belle de Nuit) Beauty of the Night or Marvel of Peru, also known as a moonflower, which was already used in mother-of-pearl marquetry to decorate a piece of BVLGARI jewellery in the 1970s. A dial whose complexity expresses the different elements of which the decor of each of these three versions consists. A dial architecture built on four levels and evoking the four elements.

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FIRE: BVLGARI reveals the fascinating character and spangled look of aventurine glass, an art dating back to the 17th century. This intense blue material, dotted with copper inclusions, is studded with eight diamond stars.

EARTH: The moonflowers are engraved using the champleve technique, gemset, polished and rhodium-plated. The marquetry specialist then sets white and Tahitian mother-of-pearl inserts into the heart of engraved petals.

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AIR: The movement with its moon phase consists of an aventurine disc adorned with two engraved and polished gold moons.

WATER: The waves are engraved in mother-of-pearl. To obtain the required shades of blue, black varnish is applied under white mother-of-pearl. It is the subsequent different thicknesses of mother-of-pearl that cause the variations in the intensity of the blue. The mother-of-pearl is polished to give it maximum shine.

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TECHINCAL SPECIFICATIONS


Collection: Bvlgari Bvlgari Lady

Model: BVLGARI – Bvlgari Bvlgari IL GIARDINO NOTTURNO 
White Gold 37 mm 18-carat White Gold 

Ref. 102431 BBLW37CDGDLMP

Case:  
Dimensions: Ø 37 mm
Thickness: 10.7 mm
18-kt White gold case with brilliant-cut diamonds
18-ct white gold crown set with a blue sapphire
Collector number engraved on the case back. 
Movement: 
Bidirectional mechanical self-winding Manufacture movement
Decorated with Côtes de Genève and chamfering finishing.
Power reserve: 42 h, 28800 variations / hours
Dial:   
A marquetry technique dial with blue aventurine depicting the sky, with the moon and set with diamonds illustrating the stars.
A body of water made by white MOP.
Alongside this flowers made of white and Tahiti MOP set with diamonds. 
Functions:
Hours, Minutes, Moonphase
Power reserve: 42 hours 
Waterproof: 30 meters
Strap:
Blue alligator strap with 18-ct white gold ardillon buckle.

Year: 2015

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