Breguet Classique Grande Complication 5347 Twin Rotating Tourbillon

Exactly three years after the original Twin Rotating Tourbillon’s launch, the legendary watchmaking house Breguet offers a follow-up to the highly sought-after model featuring a pair of tourbillons on its silvered, hand-guilloched dial. This time, the watch comes in a case made of rose gold instead of platinum, but it still retails at a price of a Bentley limousine.

Just like the original model, the Breguet Classique Grande Complication 5347 Twin Rotating Tourbillon watch features a hand-wound mechanical movement with a pair of tourbillons traveling gracefully around its dial like a couple of mechanical swans.

Coupled by a differential gear and placed on a rotating center plate, the little turbines balance each other, doubling the watch’s accuracy.

The tourbillons rotate at a speed of one revolution per 12 hours so that their connecting bridge can act as an hour hand.

It has a standard centrally mounted Breguet piece for the minute hand, though.

Both hands are crafted from rose gold that looks especially contrast on the background of silvered hand-decorated dial.

Like many high complication watches, the Breguet Classique Grande Complication 5347 Twin Rotating Tourbillon is by no means a small watch.

Whole 44 millimeters in diameter, it is more than 17 millimeters thick, which makes it almost as massive as some divers.

This model, however, is only 30 meters water resistant, so the main credit for the impressive thickness of the watch goes to the Caliber 588 hand-wound movement and its pair of tourbillons.

It’s been exactly a decade since Swatch Group acquired the Breguet brand from a Bahrainese investment company.

During these ten years, Breguet is gradually returning to its roots, forgetting the era of constant financial troubles and slowly replacing sporty but tasteless chronographs with grand complication models.

After all, it was Abraham-Louis Breguet who designed and crafted the first tourbillon watch.

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Breguet Classique Grande Complication 5347 Twin Rotating Tourbillon watch’s specification :

Price range: About €300,000
Movement: Cal. 588, Breguet overcoil, 16 1/2 lines, 69 jewels, 2.5 Hz, hand-wound
Complications: Twin tourbillon design
Power reserve: 50 hours
Case material: Rose gold, 18kt, transparent caseback
Case dimensions: 44 mm
Case height: 17.05 mm
Dial: Silvered, engine-turned, hand decorated
Water resistance: 30 meters
Strap: Dark Brown natural leather
Crystal: Sapphire