Breguet Classique Grande Complication Mens Watch 3355PT.00.986

Case Diameter 35.5 mm. Leather - Black Crocodile strap. Hours, Minutes, Small seconds on Tourbillon shaft. No calendar. 50-hour power reserve. Transparent caseback. Platinum, Fluted crown. Hours and seconds chapter rings in gold, engine-turned and silvered. Sapphire case back. Engraved by Hand. The CLASSIQUE watch is directly inspired by the work of A.-L. Breguet. It embodies the principles withwhich he revolutionized watch design: purity of form, harmony of proportion and clarity of information, reflecting the ordered beauty of the movement within. Its features are the hallmarks of the Breguet style, from its finely-fluted caseband to its hand-engraved guilloch dial. With its strong personality, the CLASSIQUE represents the ideal face of time. A.-L. Breguet's historic invention, the tourbillon regulator, was patentedin 1801. This device was conceived to compensate for the errors in rate caused by the constant changes in the watch's position. It consists of mounting the escapement and sprung balance in amobile carriage which rotates on itself with utter regularity. Errors are thus reproduced regularly and cancel each other out, rather than accumulating. Two centuries later it remains a technical tour de force of which very few watchmakers are capable.