Breguet adds new guilloché versions to the Marine 5517 and 5527

The useful part

Breguet has presented new versions of the Marine 5517 and Marine Chronographe 5527, combining the collection's contemporary nautical design with hand-guilloché dials in the "Quai de l'Horloge" pattern. The new references also reposition the date at 6 o'clock, while retaining the collection's three-hand and flyback chronograph configurations. From the late eighteenth century, Abraham-Louis Breguet developed timepieces as scientific instruments, with precision, reliability and legibility suited to navigation.

How it works

• In 1815, following his admission to the Bureau des Longitudes the previous year, Louis XVIII appointed him Watchmaker to the French Royal Navy.
• His marine chronometers subsequently accompanied navigators and explorers, including Louis Le Goarant de Tromelin, whose Pacific expeditions were accompanied by Breguet No.
• 3502, and Hyacinthe de Bougainville, who travelled around the world with No.
• In 1840, a Breguet instrument also accompanied Jules Dumont d'Urville to Antarctica.
• The contemporary Marine collection translates this maritime heritage into a modern...