If 10 years ago, the “king of watches and clocks” was mentioned, old players would think of not Patek Philippe, but Breguet. Breguet is recognized as the “King of Watches and Clocks”. The reason is that many key components and complex functions in famous replica watches are invented by the founder of Breguet, Abraham-Louis Breguet. For example, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, shock absorber, end-winding hairspring, automatic winding, etc. Without Breguet, there would be no famous watch today.
Ten years ago, Patek Philippe’s market hadn’t taken off, and Nautilus was mediocre and not hot. But later, with the take-off of Nautilus, the overall market of Patek Philippe rose rapidly, and “watch king” became synonymous with Patek Philippe. This is also true.
Among complex best fake watches, Patek Philippe specializes in minute repeaters and perpetual calendars. Breguet is the inventor of the tourbillon, which represents the highest level of the tourbillon, and Patek Philippe will also “be willing to bow down”. So let’s take a look today, how high is the top Breguet Tourbillon.
Breguet’s current top tourbillon is the Breguet 5345 double tourbillon.
Breguet Double Tourbillon, first launched in 2006, model 5347. The latest 5345 is the latest version of Breguet’s double tourbillon (note that 5345 with a small number is new). The disk surface is hollowed out, and the internal structure of the double tourbillon can be seen. In this watch, 2 independent tourbillons are included. In addition to rotating by itself (autorotation), the two tourbillons also rotate around the dial every 12 hours (revolution) with the hour hand, which is very powerful.
Why does the tourbillon spin?
The wheel train of the tourbillon is the same as that of a general mechanical watch, and the power transmission is:
Clockwork → two wheels → three wheels → four wheels (seconds wheel) → escapement and balance wheel
Unlike ordinary mechanical Replica Watches Store, the four wheels (second wheel) of the tourbillon are fixed and dead, and the four wheels (second wheel) will not rotate. The four axles in the middle of the four wheels can be rotated. Then put the escapement and balance wheel on the four-wheel shaft (put it up through a cage), and when the middle shaft rotates, it will turn around the four wheels with the escapement and the balance wheel.
To put it in more detail, the axle of the escape wheel is engaged with the teeth of the four wheels, so when the intermediate shaft of the four wheels rotates, the four wheels will not move, and the escapement will circle on the four wheels.
Players also know that the earliest Breguet invented the tourbillon was to keep the hairspring of the pocket watch in a circular motion all the time, so as to prevent the hairspring from standing still when the pocket watch was in the pocket, and the curve would sag and deform, which would affect the travel time. Modern watches no longer have this problem, so the tourbillon has completely become a decorative complication.
Why can the two tourbillons of Breguet 5345 revolve around the dial?
Breguet 5345 uses 588 manual movement, and there are two tourbillons in one watch. The two tourbillons are independent and have their own mainspring and wheel train. In the center of the watch movement, there is a differential. The barrel gears of the two tourbillons are connected to the differential.
The differential in the Breguet 5345, in layman’s terms, is similar to the differential on the wheels of a car. When driving around a corner or steering, the left and right wheels are slow on the inside and fast on the outside. Because there is a differential in the center, they can turn normally without affecting each other.
The differential on the Breguet 5345 double tourbillon averages the travel time of the two tourbillons. For example, one tourbillon travels faster and the other travels slower. After the differential travels on average, the error is reduced and the watch More accurate travel time.
More importantly, the wheels of the central differential of the movement are also fixed. The wheel trains of the two tourbillons are placed on the central shaft of the differential through a cage. As soon as the central shaft rotates, the wheels are fixed, and with two tourbillons, they start to walk around the differential (essentially similar to the principle of the previous tourbillon).
Fix the cage of the two tourbillons, and make one revolution in 12 hours, which is used as the hour hand of the watch. Breguet 5345 double tourbillon, the principle of rotation and revolution is basically like this.
In addition to the double tourbillon, the decoration of Breguet 5345 is also very complicated.
Breguet’s new double tourbillon 5345 is completely hollowed out, and you can see the entire structure of the front of the double tourbillon. We can see that half of the cage that fixes the double tourbillon is blued and used as the hour hand. Above the hollow mainspring of the two tourbillons, there is a Breguet “B” engraving. On the lower layer of the double tourbillon wheel train and the inner ring of the watch, we can see Breguet’s iconic guilloche engraving decoration.
There are a lot of skeletonized watches on the market, but most of them are modern hollowed-out styles, only pursuing coolness, not polishing, or even not polishing. However, Breguet 5345 follows the hollowed-out route of traditional watchmaking, pursuing exquisiteness and polishing. The plywood and parts of the hollowed-out parts have been polished and chamfered, which is the top level of hollowed-out watches.
Looking at the back of the watch, we can see that the back of the movement is completely covered by engravings. The pattern engraved on the movement is the watchmaking workshop founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the founder of Breguet replica, in Paris in 1775. The splints used for engraving on the back of the movement are also solid gold. It can be said that this Breguet 5345 has truly achieved the perfect fusion of technology and art.
The public price of this Breguet 5345 double tourbillon exceeds 5 million, which is very far away for most players. But I put it up so that we can understand and appreciate it, especially in this era of hot sports watches “dominating the king”, let’s also take a look at what a real top-notch watch looks like. Breguet is known as the “king of watches and clocks”, and the 5345 double tourbillon is the defender of the “throne”.
