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Exploring The World Of The Traditional Tourbillon

Recently we already discussed how the tourbillon turned from a relatively obscure device to increase the precision of a watch or clock, to the favorite complication of collectors. Nowadays there is a wide variety of different tourbillons, but in this article, we are exploring the most traditional configuration, the one in which the back of the tourbillon is secured on the main plate, with a bridge securing the front.

By Martin Green

Celebrating The Invention Of The Tourbillon With Breguet

Today, exactly 216 years go, Abraham-Louis Breguet was awarded the patent of the tourbillon. Little did he know that he had just invented one of the most prestigious complications in watchmaking for centuries to come, which was to him just a way to minimize the influence of gravity on the escapement of his watches.

#ThrowbackThursday: Breguet No. 217 Montre Perpetuelle a Repetition et Equation

It is hard to imagine where the world of watchmaking without the influence of Abraham-Louis Breguet. Forever known as the inventor of the tourbillon, but to only credit him for this is not doing him justice. Like this unique Breguet No. 217 Montre Perpétuelle à Repétition et Equation.

Hands On The Breguet 7077 Tradition Chronograph Indépendant

Introduced at this year’s Baselworld, the Breguet 7077 Tradition Chronograph Indépendant is a modern chronograph steeped in tradition

Throwback Thursday: Breguet Type XX

Every watch aficionado knows about the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet, who invented the tourbillon, the Breguet spring, the gong spring and other watchmaking mechanisms. Fewer are aware that Louis Breguet, the great-great-grandson of Abraham-Louis, achieved a world first of his own. Louis became caught up in the adventure of aeronautics in the early days of aircraft […]

Rare Pocket Watch Hand-Crafted By Breguet Himself Up For Auction

A rare pocket watch crafted by the hands of Abraham-Louis Breguet himself has surfaced from the private collection of a European noble family to be auctioned through Christie’s in Geneva May 14. It is one of the most important watches to appear in a generation. Breguet, known as the “watchmaker of the kings, the king […]

Breguet Acquires An Exceptional Turkish Watch at Auction in Beijing

The Breguet Museum in Genva has gotten its hands on an extremely rare Turkish-style Breguet watch made in 1808 for a dignitary of the Ottoman Empire, for the sum of aproximately $695,000. This represents a record bid for a Breguet watch as well as a record for a pocket-watch auctioned on the inland China market. […]