Blued-steel hands. Engine-turned hand-Guilloche dial. Individually
numbered and signed Breguet. Chapter ring with applied Arabic
numerals, Roman numerals for the minutes and luminous dots. Facetted,
open-tipped Breguet blued hands in 18-carat gold, with applied
luminous compound. Straight-line lever escapement. Monometallic
balance wheel. Adjusted in 5 positions. A pillar of watchmaking
tradition, Breguet has a long and distinguished lineage. Its founder,
Abraham-Louis Breguet is considered by many as the father of
watchmaking. Indeed, he is one of the greatest horologists of all
time. Since 1775, clients have included Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie-
Antoinette, Winston Churchill, Alexander Dumas, Princes, Dukes,
Sultans and Kings. Breguet's influence on watchmaking is unequalled.
He perfected the self-winding watch, created the first oil-free
escapement, incorporated the first shock absorber into a timepiece,
developed perpetual date mechanisms, and invented and patented the
Tourbillon. Signature Breguet styling is evident in today's
masterpieces; blue steel hands, guilloche engraving, and the fluted
caseband.