Welcome back to SwissWatchExpo in our new place here in Buckhead. As you can see, behind us we've
got some beautiful new decor in the new store, so we hope to see you very soon. And now I want to
introduce you to Breguet, speaking of things that are beautiful. One of the watches that I find to
be the most intricate and detailed watch in the watch world Breguet has a super long history,
a lot of patents and a lot of unique innovations that they've incorporated into each one of their
watches. So when you look at them, you're seeing details that you may not find on a
lot of other pieces. And speaking of detail, when you see the Breguet thin the ultra slim
model of this watch, there are a few little details right around the 11 markers on the dial.
One of the things that you don't see and is commonly known in Cartier, for example,
in the seven, you'll find a little Cartier symbol written in the Roman numeral in the Breguet.
You have to get a loop, but even with the naked eye, when you turn the dial just a little bit,
just pass the 11 and just past the 12. The scroll of the written Breguet is inscribed into
the chapter ring on the dial. Just a few little things to detect whether or not the watch you're
looking at is an accurate or real Breguet. These are just small things that they did at Breguet
dating all the way back to the 1800s, to ensure that fake copies of their watches wouldn't be
distributed widely. They discovered that if they put little small hints to their brand
in various areas of their watch, they weren't easily duplicated. And because these are hand
engraved in the chaptering of the dial, it's very difficult. And so you don't find folks who make
duplicates of these watches, being able to do this level of detail.
Another little interesting thing about Breguet history. Now this is the ultra
slim. This is an automatic watch. And what's interesting about this watch is not necessarily
just the clean style, the coin edge of the watch that you find on many of their Breguets,
but also just the hands, the guilloche shaped dial, the machine work that goes into this.
This dial is actually a silver gold dial. So the dial is made of gold. It's machined for the Jewish
design, but also it's silvered on top of that gold, which is very interesting. It's not just
a brass plate or a bronze plate. So just a few little details when you turn it over and you look,
they even have the guilloche pattern in the weight - the Arbor weight - to wind the
watch with. It's extraordinarily thin. It's one of the thinnest movements in the world.
It's absolutely gorgeous, but the size is a 38 millimeter as well. So it's a nice size
even for guys to wear. This is a very traditional classy, dress style watch.
Now, obviously I love the idea of a watch, like, but then I want to move on to one other. That's
called the Marine. And the reason that this is my absolute favorite in the Breguet line
is that it incorporates so many things about the Marine lifestyle. Of course, watches from Breguet
were used by sailors to navigate the world in the early days. So then of course technology came
along, you got things like motors and propellers and things like that. All of those intricate
details are incorporated into this watch. For example, when you look at the dial, you'll see the
swirling pattern that's just in the center and it evokes the idea of a propeller turning underwater.
And you see that fan like patterning in the middle, the center of the dial. And obviously
it still has the coin edge as well. It even has the screws that go through the lugs that look like
lugs or rivets, which is very interesting. So there's a lot of little details in each and
every Breguet that really fascinate me. One of the other things is just the way that the
outside bezel ring has done to create the idea of from the side, looking at a porthole on a ship,
and then even things as small as when you look at the crown and the crown guard,
you still get that idea of the propeller style because of the way that they're fanned out
from each side, the crown guard, that is so a lot of little details in this watch that really
make a difference to me in terms of what you expect from Breguet.
And a lot of other watch companies are not capable of achieving. And when you turn the watch over,
you still get that same idea. And it's a little bit hard for me to detail here
in the camera because of the glass. This is a solid gold piece. The glass is solid gold.
The watch itself, the casing is solid gold. And so has the weight internally, the weight
internally also mimics and echoes the dial with that fan pattern. So you still get the idea of the
churning water and the churning blade and I just find this watch to be one of the most fascinating.
The great thing about buying a pre-owned watch here from SwissWatchExpo is that the money
that you save off the price new is absolutely incredible. And to have a gold watch that's this
gorgeous and this classic, I don't think you can find a lot of brands that really can meet this.
Now, of course, this is my personal opinion. Your opinion may differ. I just find that this watch is
one of the most beautiful sport watches with a lot of really intrinsic history in it. So that is the
Breguet Marine. Now we're going to go on to this watch, which is the Retrograde Seconds. watch.
Now, this watch is interesting because, and I have the tag got a little bit caught in the clasp. What
happens with the seconds is that the seconds hand goes across the dial and as it gets to the end,
it snaps back and starts again. So you don't have a sub secondhand that goes in the traditional
circular pattern. And you also don't have one that goes outside around the edge of the dial. You have
this very simplistic two-hand dial. You've got the Retrograde Seconds, which is just interesting to
watch it moves across the dial, gets to the end, flips back quickly and starts again.
Now you would think when you look at this, that it would lose time doing that because it seems like
there's a lot of time that it takes for once. The second hand gets to the end of the dial to flip
back. It actually doesn't it's that same second. So they account for that time in the reset. Also,
when you look at the top of the dial, you have that power reserve that moves as you
begin to wind the watch. And you can probably see that there it's a really interesting dial.
It's very simplistic, but again, it's that Breguet attention to detail that I just am fascinated by
again, coin edge, you even have that sort of porthole design that's available on the Marine,
even on this watch. Also, when you look at the lugs, they look a lot like the Marine too,
even though this, this is not technically a Marine.
So a lot of Breguet history in every single watch and they consistently
design their watches to keep a theme, which is something that a lot of other brands do not do.
Now I do want to move on to the other, the very last one that I have in this collection.
And that is the, and if I'm pardon me, while I butcher this, the Reine de Naples this is, I'm
sure there's a lot of French people that want to cut my head off at this point. This is the Queen
of Naples watch. Now, why is this important to Breguet? Well, this particular design,
the egg design, and we've displayed this in a couple of other videos that we've done.
The egg design was done for Queen Murat of Naples. And she wanted a watch
on her wrist. This is something that Marie Antoinette wanted as well.
However, when the watch was designed for Marie Antoinette, as we all know, she didn't quite
make it. And so she never received the first watch on her wrist, but the Queen of Naples did. So this
is technically considered the first watch to ever have been worn on the wrist. And one of the things
that I like to tell all of our customers and clients, when you ask about a watch and you say,
Hey, is this watch more of a lady's piece? Or is this more of a men's piece? Well, technically all
wristwatches are women's pieces because women were the first ones and the very longest period of time
to wear watches on their wrist before men ever transitioned. Men refused to wear wrist watches.
They wanted to wear things in their pocket. The pocket watch made, had a lot of different design
and they liked the boldness of it because of the way that they could customize them.
So they didn't want to put them on their wrist. So just sort of as a side note in history, all women,
all watches, women's watches, men just wear them. So there's a lot of watch sizes that you
can enjoy. For example, the 38 millimeter, the 38 millimeter can be enjoyed by a lot
of different risks sizes. And it can also, because women now are wearing larger watches.
Women can get away with the 38 millimeter too. So this particular watch is interesting because at
the time that it was made, believe it or not, it was a very small watch because as you can imagine,
the technology at that time for pocket watches was quite unique. They were larger, they were
a lot more complicated. So when they went to a smaller piece, they had to re-engineer the way
that they made a watch. They had to re-engineer the way that they manufactured all the components
and because of the way that the timekeeping is done, the Springs and all of the things
that regulate the timekeeping had to had to be really improved and Breguet did that.
So this is referred to as the egg watch, we have it here. It's the Reine de Naples. I butchered
that again. I'm sure. And again, this was made for the Queen of Naples. And one of the things
that you will notice the coin edge, keeping in theme with all of the other brand's styles,
all throughout their lineup, this has a little bit of a dome crystal in it. So it does keep that sort
of convex shape. And when you look at it from the side, it almost looks magnified. At some point,
it does have a Mother of Pearl dial. They come in multiple different styles. This just happens to
be one of the most beautiful, in my opinion, with the diamond surround on the outside. And of course
the actual watch portion that tells time is very tiny, just here in the lower portion of the dial.
At first glance, it looks like a sub secondhand and dial. It's not, it just is proportioned
correctly to read all throughout this oblong shape. Now you find a lot of little details here,
the diamonds that are in the crown and the base of the watch and just some other little fine
points. Now, when you turn this watch upside down, you'll notice that this portion here
where the strap attaches it is different than on this side. And that's because in the early days,
when you thought about how you would display decorative eggs, jeweled eggs, and that type
of thing, they would actually sit like this on a stand. And so they incorporated that idea into
it. Now there's a lot of other theories about why that exists and Breguet doesn't go into a lot of
detailed information on that. So I'm just taking a little bit of portion of history from that.
I may be wrong, but that's the most common theme that I've heard. So if you turn the watch over,
you can actually see the details of the movement in the watch as well. It's got a display back.
It's gorgeous. It's got a very small movement in the center, and this is
how they were done in the original versions of these watches. They were very, very tiny
and Breguet even designed one of their watches where that movement was oblong and egg shape.
Just like the case. Of course, that was only one off. That was a custom piece and they never did
that again. They just took a regular movement and centered it in the bottom portion of the oval. So
very interesting and unique watch. This is currently for sale here at SwissWatchExpo.
One of the most gorgeous peaches pieces that we have. I encourage you when you're looking
at watches and you want to branch out and you want to have a bigger collection and you want
to get away from your standard traditional idea of what everybody in the mainstream buys as a watch,
turn to the Breguet because the things that we have here are amazing.
The prices that we have are an enormous savings over what you're going to pay retail for a brand
new watch. Do you remember all of the watches that we sell here? SwissWatchExpo are pre-owned
all of them come serviced fully inspected to make sure that they're a hundred percent authentic,
just like we discussed when we look for little details, like in the dial of this ultra slim. So
if you have any questions, leave them below, comment or call us here at SwissWatchExpo or
go to SwissWatchExpo.com. Find all of the Breguet. There's a little search bar. It doesn't
matter if you're on your mobile device or your laptop. You can search for Breguet and it's
going to come up pretty quickly. But if you can't find exactly what you're looking for,
give us a call. We'll help you through the search process.