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Breguet Grand Complication Ref. 1160 Pocket Watch: Return Of A Legend In Spirit And Actuality
1783 France – Louis Abraham Breguet is contacted for the commission of the world’s most elegant and complicated timepiece to be handed to Queen Marie-Antoinette. A task commissioned by Count Axel de Ferson, an officer in the Queen’s high guard, and a suitor to the queen. Price and time meant nothing, “make the most spectacular watch the world has ever seen;” the noted queen’s affection for jewelry and rare items was to be outstanded. At least that was the idea. In 1793, ten years after work had begun on the Marie Antoinette Breguet pocket watch, the French Revolution took its grasp on French royalty, and Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the guillotine for treason.Work, however, did not cease on the watch. It was not until 1827 that the watch was finally completed. The result of 34 years of efforts imbuing the pocket watch with every known complication at the time. The movement was an automatic (self-winding) mechanical (obviously) movement with
Grand Seiko 9F Quartz GMT Watches Featuring The First Ever 9F Quartz GMT Caliber
This is clearly the year of the GMT, though unlike the vintage re-issue craze and the two-tone and bronze material fads, this is one trend that I am all too happy to support. As a genuinely useful complication for both travel, and international collaboration alike, a good GMT is one of the last few watch complications that quickly relay crucial information to their wearer (like a second time zone) quicker than one could either open the clock app on their phone, or utter the words "Hey Siri¡­"The latest GMT to join the fray comes from Grand Seiko, but unlike many of the travel-savvy watches we've seen this year, this new trio of high-end, but markedly affordable sports watches are equipped with a brand new 9F quartz movement, designed and built entirely in-house by Grand Seiko.The new trio is comprised of SBGN003, SBGN005, and the 25th Anniversary SBGN001 Limited Edition, which continues Grand Seiko's celebration of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the 9F movement in 1993. Not onl