Breguet watches have featured its founder's celebrated hollow, eccentric "moon" tip watch hands for over two centuries now.
ECCENTRIC "MOON" TIP WATCH HANDS
The hands at this time, often short, broad and heavily decorated, added to the generally rather ponderous effect and difficulty of reading the dial. From his earliest days as a watchmaker, Breguet set out to streamline not only the internal mechanisms but also the external forms of his watches. As the hands are an essential part of the watch, both functionally and aesthetically, it is not surprising that this is another area in which Abraham-Louis Breguet left his indelible mark. To begin with he used gold English hands, until in about 1783 he invented a type of hand that was uncompromisingly new, made of gold or blued steel, and described variously as resembling a hollow apple or a crescent moon, the principle being that the points were hollowed out in eccentric fashion. Of extreme delicacy and irresistible elegance, the new shape was an immediate success. The term ‘Breguet hands’, like ‘Breguet overcoil’, soon entered the vocabulary of watchmaking.
The fabrication records frequently mention the names of makers of hands, true artists whom Breguet was continually pushing further in the quest for perfection: most prominent among them were Vaujour, mentioned consistently over a period of some forty years from 1787 to 1826; Thévenon, from 1793 to 1822; Jaquet, from 1826; and Lalieue from 1830; not forgetting Breguet’s old acquaintance Albertine Marat, sister of the famous revolutionary, from whom he bought hands from time to time, chiefly between 1818 and 1823.
Widely adopted by the principal watchmakers of the time, Breguet hands fell from favour – even within the Breguet firm – towards the end of the nineteenth century, before returning with a vengeance in about 1930. Simple and easy-to-read, they are found on most Breguet timepieces and have been widely imitated by others.
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Classique 7337
Tradition 7077
Tradition 7097
Tradition 7047
Tradition 7067
Classique 5157
Classique 5277
Classique 5177
Classique 5178
Classique 5140
Classique 7787
Classique 7788
Classique 8787
Classique 8788
Classique 7137
Classique Chronométrie 7727
Le Réveil du Tsar 5707
La Musicale 7800
Classique 5287
Classique 5327
Hora Mundi 5717
Hora Mundi 5719
Classique 9067
Classique 9068
Tourbillon Extra-Plat 5377
Classique complications 3797
Classique complications 3795
Classique complications 5317
Tourbillon Messidor 5335
Double Tourbillon 5347
Classique complications 3477
Répétition Minutes 7637
Répétition Minutes 7639
Classique complications 5447
Classique complications 3357
Classique complications 1907
Marine 5827
Marine 5857
Marine 5837
Marine 5839
Marine 8827
Marine 8828
Héritage 5400
Héritage 5497
Héritage 3661
Héritage 8860
Héritage 8861
Crazy Flower GJE25BB20.8989FB1
Petite Fleur GJE26BB20.8589DB1
Secret de la Reine GJ24BB8548DDC3
Désir de la Reine GJ27BB8924DDD8
Plumes GJ15BB89240DD8
Marie-Antoinette Dentelle GJE16BB20.8924R01
Le Petit Trianon GJE23BB20.8924D01
Reine de Naples 9807
Reine de Naples 9808
Reine de Naples 8968
Reine de Naples Jour/Nuit 8998
Reine de Naples Jour/Nuit 8999
Reine de Naples 8973
Reine de Naples 8978
Reine de Naples 8958
Reine de Naples 8918
Reine de Naples 8928
Reine de Naples 8908
Reine de Naples 8909
Reine de Naples 8939
Reine de Naples 8967
Marie-Antoinette N°1160
No.5
Sympathique clock
L’Orangerie GJE19BA20.8589DM1