The Platinum & Black Enamel Breguet Classique 5177 & Classique 7787

Breguet‘s Classique assortment distils the essence of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s watchmaking spirit. With its pure, refined traces, the Classique is dwelling to every kind of fashions sharing numerous Breguet’s ‘unmistakable indicators’. Breguet expands the gathering with a pair of terribly elegant platinum fashions with inky black Grand Feu enamel dials. The candidates for this black-tie makeover are the Classique 5177 and the Classique 7787. Marking the first time platinum appears throughout the assortment, the marriage of black enamel and gleaming platinum is a class act.

Not solely did Abraham-Louis Breguet possess a prodigious mechanical ideas, nevertheless he was moreover a distinctive designer. Shunning the flowery decorative prospers of the day, Breguet elevated legibility to new heights collectively together with his simple dials and guilloché engravings to deal with specific capabilities. His avant-garde (for the day) design language has been handed down by the centuries and informs many artistic particulars found throughout the Classique assortment, identical to the elegantly fluted case flanks, the outlet “moon” tip arms and a bunch of various Breguet improvements coated intimately in our article/video of Unmistakable Indicators.

Typically known as the “metallic of kings”, platinum has been chosen for the cases of every references. The automated time-and-date Classique 5177, with a 38mm diameter and a svelte 8.8mm profile, is a conventional robe watch and choices the finely fluted flanks, slim bezel and slim straight welded lugs associated to this assortment. The additional troublesome Classique 7787 Moonphase has a barely wider 39mm diameter and a thickness of 10.3mm. Every references look attractive throughout the gleaming grey polished platinum cases.

Grand Feu enamel is not new to the Classique assortment and has embellished fashions identical to the Classique Tourbillon Plat 5367PT, the Classique 7637 Répétion Minutes and the Classique 5177. A extraordinarily specialised craft, Grand Feu enamel requires the making use of of successive layers of enamel fired at temperatures of 800ºC. Black Grand Feu enamel is probably going one of many troublesome colours and requires immense experience and persistence to produce the trendy, inky black uniform dials of the Classiques. The payoff is that the shiny flooring will not ever fade over time. In distinction, every references attribute signature Breguet Arabic numerals in powdered silver indicated by rhodium-plated “moon” tip Breguet arms.

The purity of the Classique 5177 matches A.L. Breguet’s design philosophy, and the tone-on-tone date window at 3 o’clock is discreet. One different nice aspect is the minutes monitor picked out with tiny star-shaped markers, lozenges at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o’clock and a circle surmounting a triangle on the bottom of the remaining numbers. The caseback reveals the updated 777 Q automated calibre working at 4Hz with a 55-hour power and a flat silicon escape wheel and lever. As you may anticipate, the ending is refined with Geneva stripes, spherical graining and a starry mosaic guilloché pattern on the gold rotor.

The format of the additional troublesome Classique 7787 Moonphase is impressed by the ‘balanced asymmetry’ of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s well-known No.5 pocket watch of 1793. The phases of the moon are displayed in a semi-circle at noon with a  0-29 ½ monitor and a hammered white gold moon surrounded by rhodium-plated gold stars in the direction of a blue lacquered disc. There could also be an off-centred power reserve indicator shaped like a fan with an 0-38 arc throughout the lower half of the dial, and the entire indications and inscriptions are powdered silver. Powered by the 591 DRL automated calibre, this updated movement has a silicon escapement and hairspring, it beats at 4Hz and delivers a modest 38h power reserve. The gold rotor is adorned with a guilloché barleycorn pattern.

Every references come on black alligator leather-based straps, although the easier 5177 has a platinum pin buckle, and the moon model has a triple-folding clasp. The worth is CHF 36,800 for the Classique 5177PT and CHF 43,800 for the Classique 7787PT. Further data at breguet.com.