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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

BREGUET – Reine de Naples 9915 Valentine’s Day Edition

 

BREGUETReine de Naples 9915 Valentine’s Day White Gold Limited Edition 2025

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 In 2025, Breguet once again celebrates Valentine's Day with an exclusive creation, limited to 28 pieces: the Reine de Naples 9915, a masterpiece of elegance enhanced by handcrafted gem-setting.

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Symbols of eternal love and delicacy, mother-of-pearl and gem-setting come together in perfect harmony to celebrate Valentine's Day. This exceptional timepiece embodies passion and refinement, showcasing the artisanal craftsmanship of the Manufacture.

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From the silky radiance of its dial to the brilliance of its precious stones, it pays tribute to the beauty and intensity of the bonds that unite two souls.

The Art of the Mother-of-Pearl Dial

For this new creation, Maison Breguet has adorned the dial with an extraordinary material; the mother of pearl. It is meticulously extracted from the largest diameter of the central section of nacreous shells— the only section where the surface reveals a pearl-like brilliance of exceptional intensity.

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It is then carefully polished to achieve a perfectly smooth finish, while preserving its natural lustre and unique iridescent reflections. This artisanal process enhances every detail of the dial, offering a refined and poetic tribute to the latest creation by Breguet.

The Art of Traditional Handcrafted Gem-Setting

The signature detail of this timepiece lies in its exceptional gem-setting, elevating each of its elements. On the flange, sparkling diamonds encircle the mother-of-pearl dial followed by pink sapphires, carefully chosen for their hues. 
 
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These tones form a harmonious gradient, culminating in a captivating heart positioned between 6 and 9 o’clock, entirely composed of rubies.

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The bezel, finely set with diamonds, gracefully frames this masterpiece, while the lug showcases a sumptuous snow-setting where gemstones of various sizes are juxtaposed to create a radiant, textured surface reminiscent of snowflakes glistening in the sunlight. 
 
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Finally, the crown, adorned with a cabochon-cut ruby, completes this exceptional timepiece, adding a final touch of colour and sophistication.  Each stone, carefully selected for its quality and brilliance, reflects Breguet’s commitment to blending the art of watchmaking with the expertise of fine jewellery.

The Movement
 
The self-winding calibre 537/3 by Breguet embodies elegance and technical refinement. This horological masterpiece, featuring a compact diameter, stands out with its platinum 950 oscillating weight, delicately hand-guilloché with a circular barleycorn motif.

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Offering a 45-hour power reserve, it also features a silicon balance spring and anchor, ensuring enhanced precision and resistance to magnetic disturbances. 
 
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Every detail of the calibre reflects Breguet's exceptional craftsmanship, blending innovation and aesthetics to elevate the timepieces of the Reine de Naples collection.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  CLASSIQUE

Model:  Reine de Naples 9915 Valentine’s Day
 
Key points
Reine de Naples 9915 Valentine’s Day 2025, self-winding calibre 537/3, 45 hour
power reserve, 18K white gold case, 36.5 x 28.45 mm, fluted caseband, natural
white mother-of-pearl dial with a pearl finish, flange set with 54 diamonds,
23 rubies, and 18 pink sapphires, bezel and lug set with 97 diamonds, crown
adorned with a ruby, limited edition of 28 individually numbered pieces

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 Reference  ART. 9915BB/58/964 D0

Case
Oval case in 18-karat white gold set with brilliant-cut diamonds
crown set with a briolette-cut diamond
Fluted caseband
Sapphire crystal caseback with single-sided interior anti-reflective coating
Sapphire crystal glass with double-sided anti-reflective coating
Dimensions 36,5 × 28.45 millimeters. Thickness 10.40 millimeters.
Water resistant to 3 bar (30 m).
Dial
Natural white mother-of-pearl with a pearl finish, flange set with💎54 diamonds and in natural white 23 rubies, and 18 pink sapphires
Hour ring with 18K white gold indices and numeral "12"
Hands: Breguet open-tipped hands in blued steel
Movement
Mechanical, self-winding movement.  
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Caliber 537/3.
Lines 8 ¾ lignes. 26 jewels. Numbered and signed Breguet.
Power reserve 45 hours.
191 components.
Frequency: 3,5 Hz (25,200 vph)
It is adjusted to six positions.
Platinum rotor with Cotes de Genève decoration and bevelling.
Escapement: flat balance spring and in- line Swiss pallet-lever in silicon
Functions are: hours and minutes.
Strap
Red alligator leather
Triple-blade folding clasp in 18K white gold
14mm strap width at clasp
Carat weight
2.11 carats (💎179 diamonds)
Diamonds
Flange: 0.27 carats (💎54 diamonds)
(estimation)
Bezel: 1.5 carats (💎45 diamonds)
Lug: 0.18 carats (💎52 diamonds)
Clasp: 0.16 carats (💎28 diamonds)
Carat weight
0.34 carats (24 rubies)
Rubies
Flange: 0.07 carats (23 rubies)
(estimation)
Crown: 0.27 carats (1 ruby)

Available  in Breguet Boutique around the world

🔰 Limited Edition28 pieces 

🔴 Price: Upon Request CHF 45,900 / EUR 53,800 / $ 54,100 USD💰

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#MetiersdArts  #ReineDeNaples

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Friday, January 17, 2025

BREGUET – Classique 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 Edition

 

BREGUETCLASSIQUE 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 Gold 40 Special Edition

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Breguet pays tribute to the iconic Year of the Snake by unveiling an exclusive model, limited to 8 numbered pieces, that highlights two handcrafted artistic techniques: guilloché and engraving.

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Symbol of wisdom, intuition, transformation, and mystery, the snake holds a special place in Chinese culture, where it is regarded as a creature of knowledge and renewal. To celebrate the Year of the Snake, the Manufacture highlights its artisanal expertise with an exceptional timepiece that honours the elegance and profound symbolism of this enigmatic animal.

The Art of Hand Engraving

Breguet’s latest creation showcases the refined art of engraving on gold, a bas-relief technique that transforms the dial into a miniature sculpture. Each motif is carefully drawn and then sculpted by the artisan, who handles chisels and burins with extreme precision while observing the work under a microscope. 
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This meticulous craftsmanship, the most delicate stage of the process, brings to life subtle and refined details. Finally, the component is cleaned and polished, revealing the depth and brilliance of each engraving, underscoring the Maison’s mastery and watchmaking expertise.

The Art of Hand Guilloché

Around 1786, Breguet introduced a new art form with its finely guilloché silver or gold dials, a distinctive detail that became a signature of the Maison. Today, this traditional expertise is expressed in the guilloché work of its latest creation, performed using ancestral guilloché lathes that have been in use for over a century.
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These machines, extensions of the artisan’s hand, enable the creation of hand-engraved patterns with precision to the nearest tenth of a millimetre. The more intricate the motif, the more it reveals the artisan’s sensitivity and skill, as each line and curve is meticulously shaped, transforming the dial into a true work of horological art.

Aesthetics

After meticulously engraving every detail of the snake and its environment, Breguet enhances the depth of the artwork by applying a black coating, creating a striking contrast. 
 
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This is followed by polishing and hand guilloché, which require perfect dexterity to preserve the precision of the already intricate work. To elevate the foliage, a translucent miniature painting is applied, highlighting various shades of green while maintaining the artisanal essence of the engraving, in harmony with the rest of the dial.
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This precise and meticulous work, entirely handcrafted, creates a subtle interplay between deep green and sea green. The Breguet hands with “open-tipped pomme” design sweep over the hour track adorned with discreet round gold indices, while the gold oscillating weight features a hand-guilloché barleycorn motif—another detail that embodies Breguet’s timeless elegance and artisanal mastery.

The Movement

The Breguet calibre 502 exemplifies elegance and refinement with a thickness of only 2.40mm. A true technical feat, this movement is one of the thinnest in production today and is equipped with a 22K gold rotor, hand-engraved with a guilloché pattern. 
 
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Entirely crafted in-house, every stage of its creation is handled within the Manufacture, from shaping components to final assembly. This meticulous process demands exceptional horological expertise, ensuring not only the movement’s precision but also the visual harmony of every detail. 
 
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With the calibre 502, Breguet continues to uphold the art of delicate mechanics, combining aesthetic excellence with technical mastery to deliver a timepiece that lives up to its storied heritage.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  CLASSIQUE

Model:  CLASSIQUE 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 40 Rose Gold Edition

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Reference 7145BR/15/9WU 06

 Key points
Classique 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 in honour of the Snake,  featuring the 502.3 automatic movement, 45-hour power reserve,  an 18K rose gold case measuring 40mm in diameter with fluted sides, and an 18K gold guilloché and hand-engraved dial depicting a snake. 
Limited to 8 numbered pieces.
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Case
18K rose gold, 21mm lug width, 47.8mm lug-to-lug distance
40mm diameter
6.5mm thickness
Fluted caseband
Sapphire crystal caseback with single interior anti-reflective coating
Sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective coating

Water resistance: 3 bar (30 m)
Dial
18K gold, guilloché and hand-engraved, depicting the Chinese zodiac sign of the Snake
Hand-painted translucent green miniature on foliage
Rose gold 18K dots for hour markers
Breguet open-tipped hands
Functions: hours, minutes
Movement
Self-winding
Calibre: 502.3
Frequency: 3 Hz
(21,600 vibrations per hour)
162 components 
Automatic winding with hand-guilloché 22K gold oscillating weight
Flat silicon balance spring and silicon anchor
Single barrel
Power reserve: 45 hours
Escapement: flat balance-spring and pallet-lever in silicon
Strap
Green alligator leather
Pin buckle in 18K rose gold 18mm width at the buckle
Gold weight (Estimation) 44.1g 18K gold
1.8g 22K gold

🔰Limitation  8 pieces numbered from 1/8 to 8/8

Watch BOX
Square-shaped (16.5 x 16.5 x 10.5cm) in grey-stained maple wood,
with a tone-on-tone embossing of the Chinese ideogram for the Snake and the inscription
"LIMITED EDITION" (also tone-on-tone) inside the Alcántara-lined lid.


Available  in Breguet Boutique around the world

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Monday, December 16, 2024

BREGUET – Tradition Chronographe Independant 7077 "Breguet Blue"


BREGUETTradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077 White Gold "Breguet Blue" Version 2024

 Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077 A symmetrical design with an exclusive heart accentuated by "Breguet Blue"

In line with Abraham-Louis Breguet's vision of making technical innovation accessible—a philosophy that has driven the Maison for over two centuries—the Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077 emphasizes precise short-time measurement with an intense hue: the "Breguet Blue."

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Introduced into the Tradition collection, which draws inspiration from the renowned subscription and tact watches developed by the Maison's founder, the "Breguet Blue" now graces the face of the Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077, enhancing its modern aesthetic. This colour introduces new contrasts that intensify readability and highlight the technical architecture, offering an unobstructed view of the dual balance wheels in action.

Abraham-Louis Breguet: a pioneer of universal time

From his earliest creations at his Île de la Cité workshop installed in 1775, and his success among the elite, the talented master watchmaker aimed to make time accessible to all. He envisioned producing small series of simple instruments at affordable prices, contrasting with his contemporaries, whose unique pieces were reserved for a select few.

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This ambition, which foreshadowed future large-scale commercialization, advertising publications, and industrial production, led him to design the subscription watch in the late 18th century. This quality piece, typically featuring a single hand and large diameter, housed a reliable and precise mechanism that was easy to maintain. It could be acquired by paying a deposit of approximately a quarter of the sale price upon ordering.

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This intent to democratize time through a minimalist model culminated over two centuries later, with the 2005 launch of the Tradition collection. These watches transparently showcase their metallic architecture of bridges and gears on the dial, akin to a kinetic art piece.

Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077: the balance of duality

With its impressive geometric appearance, particularly the symmetrical design of its displays and dual balance wheels, this reference also boasts innovative mechanics, conceived and patented by Breguet, within the manual-winding calibre 580DR.  

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A symmetry accented by "Breguet blue"

Despite its seemingly complex appearance, the symmetrical design of this 44mm diameter and 14.1mm thick watch offers remarkably efficient readability with perfectly arranged elements.

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At 12 o'clock, the hours and minutes are indicated by two rhodium-plated Breguet open-tipped hands on a "Breguet Blue" gold dial, engine-turned by hand with a Clous de Paris pattern, surrounded by white Roman numerals.

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 Two overlapping arcs are present on this dial: on the left, the chronograph's 20-minute counter, driven by the central chronograph hand; and on the right, the power reserve indicator.

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At the bottom of the movement, encircled by a "Breguet Blue" inner bezel and flanked by the two balance wheels at 8 and 4 o'clock, a small rhodium-plated arrow indicates whether the chronograph function is "ON" or "OFF" .

Two independent gear trains

In a conventional chronograph, measuring elapsed time provides immediate visualization of the desired function, however its implementation poses an additional mechanical challenge, as activating this function can disrupt the main gear trains. 

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This issue is absent in Breguet's Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077, due to the two entirely separate gear trains within the manual-winding calibre 580DR.

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The first gear train, responsible for hours and minutes, is regulated by a balance wheel oscillating at a gentle frequency of 3Hz, visible on the right side of the dial beneath the power reserve indicator, which offers a 55-hour reserve. The second gear train operates at a high frequency of 5Hz, enhancing stability and ensuring precise chronograph readings. 

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With this frequency, the chronograph achieves exceptional precision, allowing timing to the tenth of a second, ensuring high reliability for short-time measurements— a testament to the ongoing advancements pushing the boundaries of mechanical timekeeping precision.

Two distinct energy sources

Typically, a second gear train necessitates an additional barrel, requiring more space and the winding of both the chronograph and timekeeping barrels. In the Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077, Breguet employs a single barrel with a spring perfectly suited for the chronograph function.

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The energy required for the chronograph is supplied when the reset function is activated and is stored in a flexed blade spring. This reserve lasts up to 20 minutes, ideal for short-time measurements, and ensures instant chronograph start-up, as the available energy is always at its peak. A non-concentric gear is paired with the blade spring to smooth the torque, achieving constant amplitude and chronograph operation. This blade spring-gear system is patented by Breguet.

Detailed controls

The chronograph function of this white gold-cased Tradition model is operated by two screw-down pushers, preventing unintended activation. Unlike other chronographs, the pusher at 4 o'clock on the fluted case band starts the timing, while the other stops and resets it.

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Activating the reset function flexes and arms the blade spring, preparing the chronograph for a new measurement. The titanium balance wheel is equipped with two stop systems: the first, operated by a cam, releases the balance wheel at the chronograph's start and holds it at stop; the second halts the balance wheel when insufficient energy remains for complete operation. 

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 Thus, the balance wheel is always in the optimal position, achieving its amplitude instantly. This innovative mechanism is patented. Features reminiscent of the Tradition collection's historical roots include the patented pare-chute shock protection and the control system of the "chronometer with double seconds, known as observation," Reference 4009, sold by Breguet on January 6, 1825.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  Tradition

Model: Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077

Key points
Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077, equipped with the manually wound calibre 580DR, offers hours and minutes at a 3Hz frequency with a 55-hour power reserve and a chronograph at a 5Hz frequency with a 20-minute power reserve. The 44mm 18K white gold case showcases a fluted caseband, screw-locked pushers, and an 18K gold dial with "Breguet Blue" galvanic treatment and Clous de Paris handmade guilloche. It includes a 20-minute counter, a power reserve indicator, and a chronograph activation/deactivation indicator.
 
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 Reference: 7077BB/G1/9XV

Case
18K white gold, 23mm between lugs, 48.65mm lug-to-lug distance
Height (mm) 44
thickness (mm) 14.10
Welded lugs with screw bars
Fluted caseband
Sapphire crystal case back with inner anti-reflective coating
Screw-locked chronograph pushers
Sapphire crystal with inner anti-reflective coating
Water resistant to 3 bar (30m)
Dial
Off-centered 18K gold dial with "Breguet Blue" galvanic treatment and Clous de Paris handmade guilloche
Satin-finished circular hour ring
White Roman numerals
Sectors and rehaut in 18K gold with "Breguet Blue" galvanic treatment
Rhodium-plated open-tipped Breguet hands for hours and minutes
Straight rhodium-plated central chronograph hand
Rhodium-plated 18K gold hands for the 20-minute counter and power reserve indicator
Rhodium-plated arrow hand for chronograph function indicator
Movement
Hand-wound chronograph movement numbered and signed Breguet
Power reserve indicator and 20-minute counter engraved on the back of the movement
Chronograph running indicator at 6 o'clock
 
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Cal. 580DR.
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Strap
"Breguet Blue" alligator leather
18K white gold triple-blade folding clasp
20mm clasp width

Variations

  • (Ref. 7077BB/G1/9XV) 18K white gold case with silvered, hand-engraved dial, blued steel hands, black alligator strap 
  • (Ref. 7077BR/G1/9XV) 18K rose gold case with silvered, hand-engraved dial, blued steel hands, brown alligator strap 

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Monday, November 11, 2024

BREGUET – MARINE Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887 Platinum


BREGUETMARINE Tourbillon Équation Marchante 5887 Platinum 43.9mm Black Dial Version 2024

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 Marine Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887
A Grand Complication in platinum armour

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The Marine Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887, standing as the technical flagship of the Marine collection, embodies a mysterious aura and adopts a solid platinum armour to house its movement, Calibre 581DPE.

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A complication as exceptional as this is mesmerising, the Equation Marchante records the difference between local time - the time that punctuates our daily lives - and solar time - the time dictated by the earth’s rotation relative to the sun. 


Featuring a perpetual calendar and a tourbillon, this Marine piece is made in platinum, a rare and durable precious metal renowned for its remarkable resistance to corrosion and enduring brilliance.

Abraham-Louis Breguet, Watchmaker to the Royal Navy

The origins of the contemporary collection trace back to the prestigious title "Watchmaker to the French Royal Navy" awarded to Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the eponymous workshop in 1775, by Louis XVIII on October 27th, 1815, a year after he was appointed a member of the Board of Longitude.

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BREGUET Marine chronometer N°3196 sold January 14, 1822 to the French Navy

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This distinguished role crowned the revolutionary advances that the master made over four decades and drew on his scientific knowledge acquired during his training with his mathematician Father Joseph-François Marie, as well as renowned watchmakers such as Ferdinand Berthoud and Jean-Antoine Lépine. 

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It enabled him to design marine chronometers, indispensable precision tools for astronomical navigation, and to calculate the position of ships in a fleet.

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Montres Breguet's rich heritage, which connects the House to the oceans and navigation, has paved the way for the Marine collection, a family of timepieces with a sporty silhouette and signature aesthetics that clearly evoke the codes of the marine world: a dial decorated with a hand guilloché "wave" motif, a crown guard with an undulating profile, a hand finished with an anchor among other distinctive features.

Marine Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887, ambassador of Breguet expertise

This highly technical timepiece, featuring three mechanical high complications: the running equation of time, perpetual calendar, and tourbillon, - driven by the self-winding Calibre 581DPE, embodies the spirit of innovation that has characterised the brand since its inception.

Equation Marchante

This exceptional complication simultaneously displays the difference between mean solar time (calendar hours and minutes) and true solar time (used since ancient times, it can maximally deviate by up to 14 minutes late or 16 minutes early) thanks to an equation of time cam linked to a feeler to drive the equation lever.

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With the Marine 5887, reading the time is instantaneous thanks to its two minute hands: one Breguet-style with a luminescent tip for calendar time, and the other, finished with a gold plated, diamond polished and fluted ring, for solar time.

Perpetual calendar


Acting like a mechanical diary, this complication indicates the date with an anchor-shaped retrograde hand that follows an arc-shaped scale, graduated from 1 to 31, located in the upper part of the dial. The day, month and leap year are displayed in two open windows at 10.30 and 1.30. This information is detailed in white on a black background for easy legibility.

Tourbillon

Created by Abraham-Louis Breguet, patented in 1801 to counter the adverse effects of gravity on the running of mechanical movements in pocket watches, features a titanium cage and a Breguet balance-spring made in silicon at around 5 o'clock.   

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To enhance the functionalities of the Marine Equation Marchante 5887, a blued gauge positioned between 7 and 8.30 o’clock provides information on the level of stored energy available, which amounts to 80 hours when the watch is fully wound.

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An engraved platinum peripheral oscillating weight decorated with a "wave" motif wraps around the hand chiselled back of the calibre 581DPE depicting the silhouette of the Royal Louis, a Royal Navy warship commissioned in 1752. The barrel is decorated with a hand engraved compass rose.

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Based on the self-winding 581DR calibre, the new Marine Équation Marchante by Breguet also flaunts a third complication that is noteworthy in its own right: a 60-second tourbillon with a titanium carriage housing a Breguet balance with a silicon balance spring. 

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This innovative characteristic notably enables the balance wheel to achieve a 4Hz frequency, while maintaining a particularly comfortable power reserve for a self-winding model.  This 80-hour autonomy is displayed through an aperture between 7 and 9 o’clock. 

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Guilloché and engraving are delicate arts, executed by hand by exceptional artisans, true masters of their craft. Each pattern is patiently sculpted, each line traced with infinite precision, breathing unique, almost lifelike character into each timepiece. 

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These pieces become much more than mere timepieces: they capture the essence of time and the soul of the artisan, offering a rare luxury — that of wearing an exclusive and inimitable work of art.

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The equation of time is one of the rarest and most fascinating horological complications. It serves to display the difference between mean solar time, corresponding to civil or standard hours and minutes, and true solar time, meaning the actual solar hours and minutes. 

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Since , the sun has been used as the basis of time. Nonetheless, the visible motion of the sun – the true solar time indicated on sundials – is irregular. With the improvement of timekeeping precision, watches and clocks became the basis of time and true solar time was replaced by mean solar time, within which each day has the same duration of exactly 24 hours.

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 BREGUET Sketches illustrating the installation of Marine chronometers aboard ships
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Mean solar time may show a discrepancy with true solar time ranging from minus 16 minutes to plus 14 minutes. On just four days a year, the two times are exactly the same. Given that the sun’s various positions in the sky are reproduced in an identical manner on the same dates, watchmakers can “program” them by means of a special cam.

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The latter is shaped like a figure 8 and mechanically reproduces the path of the sun’s successive positions, called an analemma curve. Requiring extremely accurate execution, the cam is coupled with a feeler-spindle that drives an equation lever serving to indicate the difference between civil time and solar time (-16 to +14 minutes). This read-off is generally provided on a sector or subdial. 

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 It is then up to the user to mentally add or subtract the difference displayed in relation to mean time in order to calculate true solar time. The new Marine Équation Marchante from Breguet supersedes this principle. It simultaneously indicates civil time and true time by means of two separate minutes hands. The running solar hand, adorned with a facetted golden sun, provides a direct reading of solar time minutes that is both quicker and more user-friendly.

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This apparently simplicity conceals an arduous construction process that few watchmakers are capable of achieving. The solar minutes hand has to meet two imperative demands: it must sweep in a conventional way around the dial, like the civil minutes hand, while also daily moving away from the latter by a distance that varies in accordance with the analemma curve, in order to display the equation.   

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Breguet was able to accomplish this by equipping its running solar hand with a differential gear powered by two rotation sources operating entirely independently: the rotation of civil minutes, and that controlled by the lever in contact with the equation of time cam, which makes one full turn per year. Breguet has developed an extremely slim equation cam borne by a transparent sapphire disc also serving to correct the equation of time by month.

Aesthetic poetry: the open sea under the night sky

Presented in 👉 2017, the Marine Equation Marchante 5887 initially featured a 43.9 mm diameter case available in platinum or pink gold with an ultramarine face. 

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 Three years later for the 220th anniversary of the tourbillon, the collection was expanded to include the warm reflections of pink gold combined with a chocolate-coloured dial.

This autumn, Montres Breguet completes the series by choosing the gentle strength of platinum for its fluted case. This precious grey metal is combined with the black hue for the "wave" guilloché dial, evoking the image of an ocean cradled by the silvery glow of the Moon. The complexity that the running equation of time brings to this model is naturally complemented on this “Grande Complication” by a perpetual calendar. Two apertures – one between 10 and 11 o’clock and the other between 1 and 2 o’clock – respectively display the days of the week as well as the months and the leap-year cycle. 

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The date appears inside the chapter ring by means of a retrograde hand tipped with an anchor motif and sweeping across an arc running from 9 to 3 o’clock. The dial layout of the information has been carefully designed to ensure simple and intuitive linear reading, along with impeccable visual appeal.

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At the centre of this image, four hands play a precise role: the stylised pair of Breguet hands with Super-LumiNova® filled tips indicating the hours and minutes, the hand with a golden circle indicating the solar time, and finally the hand with an anchor indicating the date. Raised blackened gold appliques Roman numerals are set on a wide circular-brushed ring, interspersed with luminescent dots and surmounted by gold hour-markers in the shape of nautical pennants.

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A truly magnificent timepiece, the new Marine Équation Marchante by Breguet sets the tone. It features new aesthetic signature codes giving it a modern and dynamic appearance: central lugs combining polished and satin-brushed surfaces; more open fluting, with visible flanks; a crown topped with a polished “B” against a sandblasted background; as well as a crown adorned with a chamfered and satin-brushed wave motif. 

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection  MARINE

Model: MARINE Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887 Platinum

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Reference. 5887PT/92/5WV

Case
Case in 950 platinum with delicately fluted caseband. Fluted middle
Sapphire caseback single, internal anti-reflective coating
Wave-shaped crown-guard
Sapphire crystal, double anti-reflective
43.9mm diameter. 
11.8mm thickness
Water-resistant to 10bar (100m).
Dial
White gold with black finishing, hand-guilloché "wave" motif
Circular brushed silvered hour circle
Black Roman numerals in 18K gold appliqué
Pyramid hour markers in 18K gold and luminescent material
Date with retrograde hand from 9 to 3 o'clock
Applied 18K rhodium-plated gold windows, day at 10.30, month and year at 1.30
Rhodium-plated hands: Breguet tip, in 18K gold faceted, Super-LumiNova® with
blue emission colour (calendar time) - baton, gold plated ring (solar time) - straight,
ship's anchor, retrograde (date) - triangular on tourbillon (months)
Tourbillon opening at 5 o'clock, sapphire crystal
  • Running solar hand with facetted golden sun.
  • Days of the week in an aperture between 10 and 11 o’clock.
  • Months and leap-year cycle in an aperture between 1 and 2 o’clock.
  • Retrograde dates indication on an arc running from 9 to 3 o’clock.
  • Power reserve in an aperture between 7 and 9 o’clock.
Movement
Self-winding movement with running equation of time, perpetual calendar, tourbillon,  
 Cal. 581DPE. 16 ½ lines, 563 components,
Numbered and signed Breguet.   
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Small seconds and equation of time cam on the tourbillon axis.
16¾ lignes. 57 jewels.
Silicon escapement wheel and inverted lateral lever with silicon horns.
Silicon balance spring.
Frequency 4Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) Flat silicon spiral
80-hour power reserve
Hand-engraved decorative Royal Louis ship, compass rose 
Tourbillon: titanium cage Grade 5, engraved "MARINE ROYALE" bar Equation of time cam on Tourbillon axis
Indicators
  • Hours, minutes in the centre
  • Minutes (solar time) in the centre
  • Small seconds on the tourbillon
  • Date hand
  • Day, month, leap year in 18K rhodium-plated applied windows
  • Power reserve
Strap
Black textured rubber
Triple-blade 950 platinum folding clasp


Variations
  • 950 platinum case, blue dial (ref. 5887PT/Y2/9WV)
  • 18K rose gold case, brown dial (ref. 5887BR/G2/9WV)
  • 18K rose gold case, silver dial (ref. 5887BR/12/9WV)
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  Available  in Breguet Boutique around the world 2024


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