Additional Info : Breguet Classique Grande Complication Mens Watch 3355PT.00.986

Hours and seconds chapter rings in gold, engine-turned and silvered. Sapphire case back. Water-resistant. Engraved by Hand.

The CLASSIQUE watch is directly inspired by the work of A.-L. Breguet. It embodies the principles withwhich he revolutionized watch design: purity of form, harmony of proportion and clarity of information, reflecting the ordered beauty of the movement within. Its features are the hallmarks of the Breguet style, from its finely-fluted caseband to its hand-engraved guilloch dial. With its strong personality, the CLASSIQUE represents the ideal face of time. A.-L. Breguet's historic invention, the tourbillon regulator, was patentedin 1801. This device was conceived to compensate for the errors in rate caused by the constant changes in the watch's position. It consists of mounting the escapement and sprung balance in amobile carriage which rotates on itself with utter regularity. Errors are thus reproduced regularly and cancel each other out, rather than accumulating. Two centuries later it remains a technical tour de force of which very few watchmakers are capable.
A pillar of watchmaking tradition, Breguet has a long and distinguished lineage. Its founder, Abraham-Louis Breguet is considered by many as the father of watchmaking. Indeed, he is one of the greatest horologists of all time. Since 1775, clients have included Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie-Antoinette, Winston Churchill, Alexander Dumas, Princes, Dukes, Sultans and Kings. Breguet's influence on watchmaking is unequalled. He perfected the self-winding watch, created the first oil-free escapement, incorporated the first shock absorber into a timepiece, developed perpetual date mechanisms, and invented and patented the Tourbillon. Signature Breguet styling is evident in today's masterpieces; blue steel hands, guilloche engraving, and the fluted caseband.