Marine Hora Mundi 5555
Breguet unveils the 5th chapter in its 250th anniversary celebrations, a brand-new version limited to 50 pieces called Marine Hora Mundi 5555.
250 years of mechanical artbetween Sky and Sea
The timepiece pays tribute to craftsmanship with a dial on two superimposed levels, one guilloché and the other sapphire. This special dial is inspired by NASA’s “Black Marble”, a nocturnal vision of the Earth.
By opting for a night view, the Hora Mundi 5555 celebrates a world in motion, where city lights remind us that the Earth never sleeps: a perfect nod to a watch designed for people traveling frequently.
Offered for the first time in Breguet gold, this Hora Mundi 5555 also uses a new dial decorated with phosphorescent enamel, the subject of a patent application. Each of the 50 collectors will be able to personalise the cities assigned to the 24 time zones.
Newfrontiers
For its new Marine Hora Mundi 5555, Breguet is linking land and sea. The Manufacture offers a new, dreamlike invitation to travel. It embraces its historical heritage, following in the footsteps of Abraham-Louis Breguet, who was appointed Watchmaker to the French Royal Navy just 210 years ago. The year was 1815, and Louis XVIII recognised the great watchmaker’s visionary talents in designing timepieces capable of pushing back the limits of science and exploration.
Today, the oceans are no longer the impassable frontier of past centuries. This perpetual quest for new challenges also drives the Marine Hora Mundi 5555, interpreted in a very limited series of just 50 pieces. At the centre of the timepiece, a unique composition of crafts embodies the harmony between tradition and modernity, artistic expertise and technical prowess, the sea and infinite horizons.
Twosuperimposed dials
The new Marine Hora Mundi 5555 is based on the timepiece in the current collection: 43.9 mm case, 77F1 calibre with pre- programmable instant jump dual time zone, date, day/night indicator and synchronised city. But that’s where the comparison ends. Beyond that, everything about the Hora Mundi 5555 is new, starting with its dial.
What sets it apart at first glance is its deep, rounded effect. This is the result of an exclusive construction. It is in fact based on two elements. On the one hand, a gold base dial, decorated with a gradation from sky blue to navy blue - the merging of the “sky and sea” a sight that inspires the creation of the timepiece.
The tradition and innovationof enamel paint
This sapphire dial brings together an unparalleled array of artistic skills. It is entirely hand-painted in three phases, on both sides. First, all the continents are painted in miniature enamel.
As the sapphire crystal is also flat, the contours of the continents are refined as they approach the flange, transferred by pad printing in transparent petit feu enamel. Breguet craftsmen then enamel within these lines. These continents are painted on the reverse side of the sapphire crystal.
Secondly, the Breguet craftsmen turn the sapphire dial inside out and paint a series of clouds on the front, bringing life and realism to the composition. This cloudy layer is executed in enamel paint. It too is fired over a grand feu. But while the contours of the continents are immutable, the clouds fluctuate - just as they would on the surface of the Earth, floating above the continents.
Here, each Breguet painter gives himself room for personal creativity.
Each Hora Mundi 5555 will therefore be a unique piece, with a touch of magic and mystery floating on the surface of the oceans, according to the inspiration of each Breguet craftsman...
Evermore unique
To underline the uniqueness of this lim- ited series of 50, Breguet has enriched its Hora Mundi 5555 with numerous details that make it different and unique. For the first time, the Marine case is made of Breg- uet gold. Especially for this limited edition, its central attachment is polished. The jux- taposition of polished and satin-brushed finishes underscores the beauty of the new Breguet gold.
77F1, referencefor an exceptional calibre
The heart of the Hora Mundi 5555 remains the 77F1 calibre. This robust movement has powered the Hora Mundi collection since its creation (calibre 77F0 became 77F1 in 2022). In addition to the time and date, it indicates a second time and date pair for the time zone of one’s choice, based on one of the 24 cities each representing a time zone.
Unique to Breguet and without equivalent on the market, it is based on the principle of a mechanical memory with instantaneous display. After setting the time and date with the crown at 3 o’clock in relation to a first city, simply set the second city and its time zone with the push-button crown at 8 o’clock.
The mechanism then calculates the time and date by means of a system of cams, hammers and an integrated differential.
By simply pressing the pusher at 8 o’clock, the display switches on demand between the first and second time zones, automatically adjusting the date in both cases. An indicator at 4 o’clock specifies whether the time zone displayed is in the day or night zone.
The calibre 77F1 is protected by several patents. One relates to a timepiece comprising a dual time-zone mechanism; the second to the display of a time zone on demand via the main pointer; the third to the programmable and reprogrammable mechanical memory wheel for a timepiece; and the last to the device for displaying a time dimension via a trailing hand.
A watchfor great travelers
