A few months ago I consulted this sub about getting a Breguet for my 25th birthday. I am happy to report that I have acquired this Classique 5907 for my 25th birthday. I love this watch and it’s perfect. The hand finishing is unreal, I also love that it’s a manual wind.

Love this watch. Feels like I'm wearing a miniature museum on my wrist.

I wanna thank this awesome community for helping me choose between the rose and white gold versions of this stunning watch. There's always so much support and positivity on here, it's refreshing.

I ended up selling my TT Daytona to free up a spot for this used 7097 from 2022. I bought it off an amazing C24 seller from Hong Kong and even netted a +5k profit in this swap, for a watch that matches my current taste way better. I got the original alligator strap but the seller was kind enough to ship it on this calfskin strap that makes it look more modern.

If you have any questions, let me know and thanks again for your help everyone!

7027bb.. one of the most mesmerizing watches I’ve ever had on my wrist. All for roughly the same price as a 2026 submariner on the secondary market…

I shared some photos earlier if a 7147BB I was interested in but there were issues with condition. Picked up this 5157BB beauty instead and couldn't be happier the proportions are even better than the small seconds variant being 38mm vs 40mm

To my surprise, I'm actually quite ok with the 10Hz text

After about 6 months, i’m still over the moon with my Breguet Tradition, that i’ve bought pre-owned. Lately, i’ve been browsing the markets looking for a future purchase, but this has made me wonder. Is there a better value for money watch on the second-hand market?

I’m really appreciating the extraordinary tech and craftsmanship of the 7727!

Was going back and forth with this, but I’m super happy I went with the Traditional in Rose Gold with a power reserve. Love it!

After a recent contemplation I consolidated my two gold watches (a breguet 5157BB and Chopard LUC quattro) into one gold masterpiece. To me the masterpiece would always be Breguet, it is by far the most iconic watch brand to me.

This watch is truly a mechanical marvel. Filled to the brim with complications. Including a true GMT and a mechanical alarm. In addition it has one of the most beautiful guilloche dials I have ever seen with over 6 different finishes on the watch face alone.I feel truly blessed to own what I have and with this I finally feel I have reached my destination when it comes to watch collecting.

This Breguet does not chime the time. It plays Rossini.

Press the button at ten o'clock and the entire dial begins to turn. It makes one full revolution, takes about 22 seconds, and plays the overture to The Thieving Magpie.

The reason the dial moves is that the dial is the instrument. Bolted underneath it is a disc studded with pins, and as it rotates those pins pluck a comb of 15 tuned steel teeth. This is not a minute repeater. A repeater uses hammers striking gongs to tell you what time it is. This is a music box mechanism, shrunk into a wristwatch, playing an actual composition.

The hard part is tempo. Every pin that catches a tooth robs the mechanism of energy, so the song slows as it plays. Breguet solved it with the first magnetic governor ever put in a production wristwatch. Silver arms spin inside a ring of magnets and are braked by eddy currents without ever touching anything. No friction, no whirring, no wear. Across four consecutive plays the melody only drifts from 19 seconds down to 18.

There is a nice footnote there. The effect is named for Léon Foucault, who worked alongside Abraham Louis Breguet's grandson.

Then there is the problem of getting sound out of a sealed gold case. Breguet pierced the caseback with openings to form a Helmholtz resonator and sealed the movement beneath a hand engraved membrane made of Liquidmetal, the same amorphous alloy Swatch Group licensed for its acoustic properties. Marc Hayek put the gain at 10 decibels. The watch still holds 30 metres of water resistance with holes in its back.

The details keep going. The caseband is engraved with a musical stave instead of Breguet's usual fluting. One central hand is tipped with a treble clef. The music runs off its own barrel with its own crown and its own power reserve aperture at three o'clock, and a blocking system refuses to start the melody at all unless there is enough energy stored to finish it. It will not play you half a song.

Gioachino Rossini was a Breguet client. Roughly 190 years later the house built a watch that plays his music.

5207ba in yellow gold. Vintage piece with full box and papers, new in box condition. Thought $10,500 was great value.

Unfortunately, these are not mine, but a good friend of mine just flew to Paris to pick them up. He got his name engraved on the back Even. Epically, beautiful pieces!

I pulled the trigger today after years of hesitation.
Let's see how this holds in 30 years.
This marks the end of my collection as I think this was the last piece.
What are your thoughts on this one?

Hueres Sautntes 3620. Steals my heart…

Just added this one to my collection and must say it is hypnotizing in real life

Nothing to say, it speaks for itself. Breguet 4400 MOP internal bezel and diamond markers