Breguet Marine Musical Alarm 5547

Principally acknowledged for its Classique watches and its fluctuate of pilot’s chronographs, Breguet has an prolonged customized of nautical-inspired fashions too. The Marine assortment represents the hyperlink to a lesser-known facet of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s historic previous, when he was the “Horloger de la Marine”, the official supplier of chronometers to France’s Navy. Now in its third know-how, the Marine is the sportiest and boldest assortment of the watchmaker, nevertheless it stays refined, as a Breguet should be. At current, we take a greater take a look at a model with a unusual and attention-grabbing complication, a mechanical alarm. Proper right here’s our video evaluation of the Breguet Marine Alarme Musicale 5547.

Abraham-Louis Breguet is named one of many very important influential watchmakers of all situations. He revolutionised horology with manifold enhancements however as well as created the notion of “mannequin” in watchmaking. What fewer know is that in the middle of the French Restauration, following the autumn of Napoleon, Breguet was appointed as a result of the official watchmaker of the French Royal Navy in 1815 by Louis XVIII, thus turning into the one supplier of marine chronometers for France’s navigation at sea. Even proper this second, this heritage stays to be sturdy for the mannequin, which has merely grow to be patron of the French Nationwide Navy Museum in Paris. The Marine assortment, first launched in the middle of the Nineteen Nineties, pays tribute to this nautical spirit. In 2018, Breguet launched the third know-how of Marine watches, endowing it with a dynamic and updated spirit. Together with a time-and-date model and a chronograph, the gathering features a actually participating model, equipped with a unusual nonetheless charming complication, a mechanical alarm.

This watch, the Breguet Marine Alarme Musicale 5547, is the topic of our video evaluation – we chosen the white gold model, with its handsome blue guilloché dial (most certainly in all probability essentially the most participating model inside the fluctuate). The case has been radically modernised on this third know-how, exhibiting further angular shapes and a lug module for dynamic strains. Nonetheless, it is a Breguet and the decoration/ending is top-notch. Classique parts have been saved, such as a result of the wave-shaped crown guard or the fluted caseband – with a further pronounced pattern than a Classique model. The dial, manufactured from sturdy gold with a hand-guilloché pattern, moreover performs on the nautical theme, with its wave pattern and a number of other different references to nautical flags – on the flexibility reserve or the seconds hand counterweight. The watch is provided with a twin time function and a date… nonetheless principally, a chiming complication.

What points most on this Breguet Marine 5547 is its alarm function, executed by the calibre 519/F1 – a joint progress by Lemania and Frédéric Piguet. This automated movement choices two barrels, every wound concurrently by the use of the crown or the unidirectional automated mechanism. The first barrel powers the time indication whereas the second powers the alarm mechanism. This function is operated by the second crown, positioned at 4 o’clock (which moreover items the second time zone) and a push-button at 7 o’clock, which prompts or deactivates the alarm. A small bell appears inside the 12 o’clock window when it is activated.

And if you happen to want to hear how this alarm sounds, attempt the video evaluation above. It is a pretty spectacular and mechanically fascinating function. Further particulars on this Breguet Marine Alarme Musicale 5547 and the rest of the Marine assortment at www.breguet.com.