Introducing: Breguet Launches Its First-Ever Flying Tourbillon In The Classique Tourbillon Sidéral 7255

Introducing: The Breguet Classique Tourbillon Sidéral 7255 for the Brand’s 250th Anniversary

It will come as no surprise that the fourth instalment of Breguet’s 250th-anniversary celebrations honours Abraham-Louis Breguet’s most celebrated invention: the gravity-defying tourbillon. Following the Souscription, the Seconde Rétrograde and the Type XX Chronograph, the release of the latest celebratory watch coincides with the day and month Abraham-Louis Breguet obtained a patent for his tourbillon […]

Introducing: Breguet Launches Its First-Ever Flying Tourbillon In The Classique Tourbillon Sidéral 7255

What We Know On June 26, 1801, Abraham-Louis Breguet patented one of the most iconic and beloved (despite of – or maybe because of – their anachronistic qualities) ideas in watchmaking: the tourbillon. However, I was shocked to discover that, as of yesterday, Breguet had never released a flying tourbillon—that being a tourbillon that is supported on only one side, rather than by a bridge or multiple points of contact, giving the effect of the re…