Reference Guide
Ray3149 seeks community expertise for a pre-owned Breguet watch intended as an anniversary gift for his wife. As a novice to Breguet and pre-owned purchases, he asks for assistance in identifying the specific model, its age, caliber, and power reserve, as the antique jeweler could not provide these details.
The case back's engraving indicates that it is a watch reference 8290, which uses calibre 552. Power reserve is 40 hours. Likely dating from the 1990s.
The Breguet has F. Piguet 1150. Mine is 65 hrs power reserve, this one should have about 70 hours. Why? Mine has a stylized nautilus shaped rotor which reduces by ~7% from the base movement performance with a Full rotor like the one you are showing (they probably did that on mine because the exhibition case-back). Also mine has a FP69 large date module added, yours have a standard date (to my eyes). As far as how old this model is, I don't have an answer for that. Perhaps other members will help
Thanks for the help guys - I appreciate it
The easiest thing to do is email breguet directly.
yours is a more recent twin-barrel movement based upon the Frédéric Piguet 1150 family of calibers, which in their standard configuration have a power reserve between 70 (Breguet, Vacheron, Jaquet-Droz, others) and 100h (Blancpain only). Here a Blancpain version: The movement in the Breguet shown by the OP is a based upon the Frédéric Piguet 95 family. Its much smaller, has only one barrel and, as others have said, about 40h of power reserve. Here is an image of one such movement as used by Blan
My knowledge in vintage is close to null.
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