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REVIEW Breguet Classique 7337 BB
Aug 18, 2020
Monochrome Watches
Description
Classique wristwatch in 18-carat gold. Selfwinding movement showing the date, the day and the phases and age of the moon. Balance spring in silicon. Dial in gold, hand-engraved on a rose engine. Off-centred chapter ring. Seconds subdial. Sapphire caseback. Water-resistant to 3 bar (30m). Diameter: 39 mm.
Available in rose gold, in white gold and in yellow gold with different hand-engraved dials in gold, including a blue version on the white gold model.
Engraved clouds bordering the lacquered sky of the moon-phase indicator, dotted with sparkles, are evocative of the Milky Way. Breguet has remodeled the golden disc depicting the moon in shiny relief and matte grooves.
https://www.breguet.com/sites/default/files/modes-emploi/me_7337.pdf
Movement
- Winding Self-winding
- Power reserve (hours) 45
- Calibre 502.3 QSE1
- Lines 12
- Jewels 35
- Frequency 3
- Balance-wheel Breguet
- Escapement Inverted straight-line lever
- Balance-spring Flat / Silicon
- Oscillating weight 22 Carats
- Number of components 236
- Metal Or blanc
- Skeleton No
- Sapphire caseback No
- Case shape Round
- Diameter (mm) 39
- Case thickness (mm)
ECCENTRIC "MOON" TIP WATCH HANDS
The hands at this time, often short, broad and heavily decorated, added to the generally rather ponderous effect and difficulty of reading the dial. From his earliest days as a watchmaker, Breguet set out to streamline not only the internal mechanisms but also the external forms of his watches. As the hands are an essential part of the watch, both functionally and aesthetically, it is not surprising that this is another area in which Abraham-Louis Breguet left his indelible mark. To begin with he used gold English hands, until in about 1783 he invented a type of hand that was uncompromisingly new, made of gold or blued steel, and described variously as resembling a hollow apple or a crescent moon, the principle being that the points were hollowed out in eccentric fashion. Of extreme delicacy and irresistible elegance, the new shape was an immediate success. The term ‘Breguet hands’, like ‘Breguet overcoil’, soon entered the vocabulary of watchmaking.
1780, THE "PERPÉTUELLE" WATCH
What Abraham-Louis Breguet set out to achieve was at once simple and highly ambitious : a watch which would wind itself, without the aid of a key or any other external agency. In his customary fashion, Breguet never laid claim to either the idea or the term "perpétuelle", taking credit merely – if that is the appropriate word – for the invention of a system that was reliable and effective : an oscillating weight "à secousses" which responded to the wearer’s movements and ordinary walking. The oscillating weight, sprung so that it returned to its original position after each movement, pushed up two going-barrels, stopping when the springs were fully depressed.
