An Inside Look at the Hautest Tourbillon Watches on the Market
Go into any boutique that sells luxury watches and you’ll be confronted with a scale of prices that rise sharply as watches become more complicated. At the pinnacle is the complication known as the t…
Less Is More : The Art of the Ultra Thin Watch
What goes around, comes around –call them ultra thin or extra flat, thin dress watches are back, and a rose by any other name would be just as elegant. Though a newcomer to fine watchmaking in recent…
Haute Time: The New Breguet Classique 5717 “Hora Mundi”
The World Time watch is one of the most useful complications for travelers; but though it’s been around since the 1930s, watchmakers have constantly been working ever since to make it more convenient…
Boutique Special: Breguet Réveil du Tsar Enamel Dial Watch
A lesson learned eons ago and since then routinely dismissed is that watch dials should be easy to read. In modern times you’ll find even very high-end watch makers pushing the envelope of design and…
Music Minded: Breguet Réveil Musical Watch
Musical watches have a very long history that begins with bells — church bells more specifically. Historically speaking it was a luxury to have the time, expensive if one could have it at all. There w…
Haute Timepieces: Show Off History
You too can be like a Russian Oligarch. Breguet timepieces seem to be a top choice luxury watch brand among politicians and business people of the region, and around the world as well. Less common in…