Hamilton offers the model with a wide variety of movements (even an automatic) dials and straps, and in 2010 even released two special editions to commemorate what would have been Elvis Presley's 75th birthday. One was the re-issue of the model as he wore in Blue Hawaii, the other was, what...
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Rating: 5 %1000 with 34 votes |
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Other Tissot fans include Sarah Bernhardt, Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Grace Kelly and Nelson Mandela.
In addition Tissot has maintained its presence in the sports world as official timekeepers for the Davis Cup in 1957 and throughout the years at the world championships in cycling,...
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Rating: 8 %1000 with 62 votes |
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A screw-in crown and buttons carved in a wave finish the whole in a spirit of elegance and action, while the transparent back discloses a gold winding rotor.
The dial, with a wave-patterned centre recalling the origins of the collection, displays a minutes-counter and chronograph seconds at...
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Rating: 41 %1000 with 276 votes |
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The subdial of the power-reserve indicator is aligned in perfect symmetry with the tourbillon and is engine-turned in a wave pattern in the purest tradition of Breguet’s watchmaking art.
The central hours and minutes, the tourbillon at 6 o’clock and the power-reserve indicator at 12 o’clock...
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Rating: 41 %1000 with 273 votes |
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2mm-high extra-thin model is a real exploit for an automatic mechanical movement.
The case, of ageless simplicity, is carved out of yellow or white gold and has a sapphirecrystal caseback. It is ornamented with the classic fluted caseband, the distinctive sign, in the highest sense, of the...
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Rating: 41 %1000 with 269 votes |
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A tourbillon and a perpetual calendar put the finishing aesthetic touch to this skeleton watch.
The off-centred chapter-ring, which has been engine -turned by hand in a notched pattern, is accompanied by an arc showing the date of the month with a jumping retrograde mechanism. Two subdials...
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Rating: 42 %1000 with 285 votes |
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Breguet brought about a decisive improvement in this area by inventing the spring gong?
The minute-repeater, the summit of the watchmaker’s art, features a gong, the pure tones of which demanded a master-watchmaker with an excellent ear and a very deft hand, for the slightest deviation...
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Rating: 42 %1000 with 282 votes |
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Breguet’s major inventions, the pare-chute, completed in 1790 to protect the balance -staff against shocks.
Crafted in yellow gold, this watch has a new movement designed and produced entirely by the Manufacture and which took four years to develop. The dial and the sapphire-crystal...
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Rating: 42 %1000 with 280 votes |
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Designed for reliability, they achieve their elegance through the modern application of Breguet’s traditional aesthetic values. The tough steel case has protected crown and increased water - resistance.
It holds a gold dial that is silvered or blued, and engine - turned in the centre with a...
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Rating: 42 %1000 with 284 votes |
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The new automatic chronograph Type XXI 3810 retains the military bearing of the original watch Breguet developed for the French naval air arm in the 1950s.
The Type XX was ahead of its time, and word soon spread to civilians of its exceptional reliability. For 50 years, Breguet’s...
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Rating: 41 %1000 with 273 votes |
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