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Lot Essay
The platinum 'Classique' Grande Complication reference 5447PT captures the true spirit of the company’s founder, horological genius Abraham-Louis Breguet. Today, Montres Breguet continues his legacy by creating exceptional technological and aesthetic timepieces in A. L. Breguet’s instantly recognisable style. Among these contemporary masterpieces, this minute repeating perpetual calendar watch with retrograde months and moon phases is one of the most exquisite and sophisticated.
The intricate manually wound movement, which is completely hand-engraved, powers three of the most fascinating complications in high watchmaking: a minute repeater, a perpetual calendar, and an incredibly complex retrograde jumping-month mechanism. The optimized repeating mechanism is especially noteworthy. To improve clarity, resolution, and tonal balance, psycho-acoustic research has been used to improve the harmony between the two gongs. The case itself serves as a resonance chamber, and the gong holders' placement has also been redesigned to produce a crystal-clear sound.
Very few examples of this remarkable platinum reference have ever appeared at auction, therefore offering collectors a unique chance to own one of the real trophies of Breguet's contemporary manufacturing.
The intricate manually wound movement, which is completely hand-engraved, powers three of the most fascinating complications in high watchmaking: a minute repeater, a perpetual calendar, and an incredibly complex retrograde jumping-month mechanism. The optimized repeating mechanism is especially noteworthy. To improve clarity, resolution, and tonal balance, psycho-acoustic research has been used to improve the harmony between the two gongs. The case itself serves as a resonance chamber, and the gong holders' placement has also been redesigned to produce a crystal-clear sound.
Very few examples of this remarkable platinum reference have ever appeared at auction, therefore offering collectors a unique chance to own one of the real trophies of Breguet's contemporary manufacturing.