Breguet

Ref. 5447 Basel press release info...

 

Hi Mostel.

I definitely agree that this is also a fantastic watch which Breguet brought out this year, but in my opinion it does not really break new ground in the way the Tradition did.

In any case, here is the picture and the text from the Basel press release...

Cheers,

CLASSIQUE 5447 Minute-repeater with perpetual calendar

The minute-repeater and perpetual calendar belong to the Grandes Complications, the ingenuity and technicality of which are the prerogative of a few, rare watchmakers.

Need one also recall that A.-L. Breguet brought about a decisive improvement in this area by inventing the spring gong?

The minute-repeater, the summit of the watchmaker?s art, features a gong, the pure tones of which demanded a master watchmaker with an excellent ear and a very deft hand, for the slightest deviation irredeemably wipes out the result of long hours of adjustment.

Generously proportioned at a diameter of 40mm, the platinum case hides a movement that has been entirely engraved by hand and which has a sophisticated retrograde jumping mechanism to indicate the month at 10:30 on the dial. At the end of the year, the hand travelling along the arc jumps almost instantly to go back to January and resume its journey. The date is shown at 6 o?clock in a dial that has been engine-turned in a delicate sunburst pattern where each ray matches a date. Served by elegance, the clarity of the dial honours the work of the House designers. The regular texture of its engine-turned, hobnail-patterned finish enables it to absorb rather than reflect light, thus making it easier to tell the time instantly and to read the perpetual-calendar information.

CLASSIQUE GRANDE COMPLICATION
MINUTE-REPEATER AND PERPETUAL CALENDAR
SPECIFICATIONS OF WATCH
REF. 5447PT/1E/9V6

Case: round, 40mm diameter in platinum 950 with fluted caseband. Sapphire-crystal caseback. Rounded horns welded to the case, with screw-pins to secure the strap.

Dial: in silvered 18-carat gold, hand-engraved on a rose-engine. Individually numbered and signed BREGUET. Chapter-ring with Roman numerals. BREGUET blued-steel hands. Retrograde month indicator at 10:30. Leap-year indicator in a subdial at 8 o?clock. Day indicator at 4 o?clock. Date at 6 o?clock in a subdial, engine-turned in a sun pattern. Age and phase of the moon at 02:30.

Movement: hand-wound, 12?-ligne, 31-jewel, cal. 567RMP, with minute-repeater and perpetual calendar. Entirely engraved by hand. Numbered and signed BREGUET. 40 hours power-reserve. Straight-line lever escapement. Monometallic, 2.5Hz balance-wheel on a BREGUET spring. Adjusted in 5 positions.