Tradition Tourbillon

Second time spending some time with this piece and love it. Fuse and chain, a discrete little PR, and all of the classic Breguet design marks. It’s funny to me how affordable these are relative to other brands that have essentially plagiarized the Traditi

The fusee-and-chain transmission is a way of providing a constant even force to the escapement as the mainspring unwinds itself throughout its range of power reserve. The fusee (from the French fusée , wire wound around a spindle) is a cone-shaped pulley

When you discover a brand such as Breguet, you already know some little things about it. But you go deeper, and you see them with different eyes. For example, the Tradition. When Breguet decided to unveil it in 2005, ( 16 years ago, already! ) we learnt t

If you're not familiar with it, the Naked Watchmaker is a great resource for understanding how different movements work. And it just so happened they deconstructed both the 7047 and the 5717. Here's the 7047: https://www.thenakedwatchmaker.com/decon-bregu

They all offer some complication that you just don't see anywhere else. One could argue the 7047 overlaps a bit with what some other companies are doing (Romain Gauthier, Zenith, Ferdinand Berthoud, and A. Lange & Sohne have fusee and chain watches, and e

For those keeping score, I now have a Tradition Tourbillon 7047, a Classique Hora Mundi 5717, and now a Classique Musicale 7800. There's one more Breguet (the Classique Chronometrie 7727) on my list before I feel my collection is complete, but I'm feeling

Just playing around with a new loupe I got that can attach to my cell phone. I liked the way this one turned out Under a loupe: The part I zoomed in on was the lower right:

Breguet has been dropping a new release about once a month to celebrate the 250th anniversary. Assuming they stop at the end of the year, I'd say we have about 5 more coming? So far they've released the Classique Soubscription, the Tradition Retrograde Se

The diameter is quite reasonable, but it does have a bit of height/depth to it. I happen to also be wearing my Freak Cruiser (which I only got a few weeks ago as well), and the 7047 is much lighter. I didn't think I had particularly large wrists, but I gu

I purchased what I believe to be new old stock of a 2013 Tradition Tourbillon 7047 with Fusee & Chain. I asked in a separate post about whether I would be able to register it with Breguet as the original owner, and the consensus was that I could. I'm