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What a cool project, thanks for posting! I love this. The liga gears seen in modern chronographs is perhaps the most attractive upgrade I see in modern chronos, amazing to see this backwards compatible to existing movements.
Breguet surgery
One of my favorite watch is a Breguet XXI, Ref 3817. It is a flyback chronograph with a center minutes hand. The movement in this watch is Breguet calibre 584Q/2, a very robust and reliable cam switched horizontally coupled chronograph, related/based on t...
Appreciate? Definitely not!
You should have heard what the person in NYC Breguet boutique had to say about just the idea. If this watch ever has to have service, it would be not Breguet for sure.
Thank you for this interesting post and helping me decide it was time for my Boucheron to take a rest and my Breguet Type XXI 3810ST to come out to play.
I have to admit you are both a braver and more skilled man than I. If I even attempted to do what you have done I would have one broken Breguet and a very expensive repair bill coming my way. I also got my watch out as I hadn't noticed what you describe s...
Fantastic, thanks for sharing your hands-on improvement!
As said by Nico, I am not Breguet would like it but they should consider this improvement. Mechanical chrono with fly back are technical little marvels, but it is interesting to see the flaws of this one. For my own culture, do you know how LIGA wheels ar...