2020 Breguet La Tradition Automatic 18ct White Gold 38mm 7037BB

Here we have the exquisite 2020 Breguet La Tradition automatic 7037BB. Launched in 2011 as part of their Tradition collection and featuring a 38mm 18ct White Gold round case that comfortably sits on your wrist, with straight, round-ended, drilled lugs. Its curved coin-edge mid-section leads to a lug-to-lug length of 45mm and a case thickness of 12mm. On the right side, a signed coin-edged crown. A smooth bezel holds a domed sapphire crystal with double AR-coating above an incredible semi-skeletonised open-work movement, inspired by Breguet's 18th-century pocket watches. The grainy-textured mainplate secures this mesmerising movement with blued screws and 18ct Breguet gold bridges. At 12 o’clock, we have a small guilloché subdial featuring an outer minute track and Roman numerals marking the hours within three concentric, patterned rings. Elegant blued Breguet hands sit majestically in the centre; ‘Breguet ****’ completes this intricate subdial. On the left side, you find an engraved retrograde seconds. On the reverse, a sapphire exhibition case back, engraved with the details of the watch and the 18ct white gold hallmarks around its edge, inside an open-work automatic Breguet Cal. 505SR, 41 jewels, beating at 21,600 beats per hour, showcasing this intricate masterpiece made up of 240 components, featuring a repeating square ribbed-textured signed rotor and the Breguet “pare-chute” shock-protection system, which they created way back in 1790. It comes paired with its 20mm Breguet leather strap and 18ct white gold tang buckle. This watch is sold with its Breguet box and paperwork.

This watch is sold with its Breguet box and paperwork. It comes paired with its 20mm Breguet leather strap and 18ct white gold tang buckle. The watch is from September 2020 and is in worn condition, but overall it is in very fair condition, as you can see from the photographs. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.

A White Gold Breguet is in my collection's future at some point, and this Breguet La Tradition automatic 18ct White Gold, reference 7037BB, in 38mm would suit me perfectly. I often talk about value for money, and that may seem a little crazy on a watch in the 5-figures, but with the history and heritage, the finishing and execution, Breguet really are one of the most underrated and underappreciated brands in this price point today. Some watches you get in and you know they won't hang around long, this is one of those watches!

Reference : 7037BB/11/9V6
Movement : Automatic Breguet Cal. 505SR
Age : September 2020
Year : 2020
Case Size : 38mm
Case Thickness : 12mm
Lug to Lug : 45mm
Lugs : 20mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box and Papers : Box & Papers
Case Material : 18ct White Gold
Warranty : 12-Months NON-Waterproof Warranty
The wrist model's wrist size is 7inch

Breguet was founded in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, a Swiss watchmaker in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He spent ten years training under Ferdinand Berthoud and Jean-Antoine Lépine before setting up his own watchmaking business at 51 Quai de l'Horloge on the Île de la Cité in Paris. Breguet networked during his apprenticeship as a watchmaker, where he was introduced to the court. Queen Marie Antoinette showed a growing fascination with Breguet's unique self-winding watch; Louis XVI bought several of his watches at this time. In 1783, the Swedish count Axel von Fersen, who was the queen's friend and an apparent lover, commissioned Breguet to create a watch that was to contain every watch complication known at that time as an incredible gift to Marie Antoinette. Breguet's masterpiece is the Marie-Antoinette pocket watch (Breguet No.160). In 1807, Breguet's son Louis-Antoine was made his partner, renaming the firm "Breguet et Fils" (Breguet and Sons). Abraham-Louis's great-grandson, Louis Antoine (1851–1882), was the last of the Breguet family to run the business. With none of his children wanting to run the business, the Breguet company hired an English watchmaker, Edward Brown of Clerkenwell, to manage their Paris factory. Clerkenwell was the hub of watchmaking at that time, and is one of the reasons we chose to have an office in Clerkenwell due to its historical place in watchmaking. Brown soon became a partner and, after Breguet's grandson's death, he took ownership of the company. When Brown died in 1895, the firm was left to his sons, Edward and Henry. For 100 years, from 1870 to 1970, Breguet was owned by the Brown family. But sadly, the ownership changed hands several times during the “quartz crisis” in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, Breguet's owner, Chaumet, closed its French factory, and its production facilities moved to the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. In 1987, Breguet was bought by Investcorp ,which created the Groupe Horloger Breguet (GHB) in 1991. The Breguet Group is made up of four subsidiaries: Montres Breguet SA, Breguet SA, Valdar SA and Nouvelle Lemania SA (which the Group bought in 1992). Due to these changes, Breguet-brand watches are made at the Nouvelle Lemania factory in Switzerland. Montres Breguet SA is the main company that sells timepieces under the brand name "Breguet", and Breguet SA is the name of Breguet Group's distribution company in France. In 1999, the Swatch Group bought Groupe Horloger Breguet from Investcorp.