By combining Breguet’s famed technical expertise with the growing usage of silicon components in watchmaking, it is possible that the horological world has reached the forefront of a new frontier in movement creation. After beginning to incorporate silicon balance springs into their watches a decade ago, Breguet has premiered the Tradition 7047 model with a tourbillon and a fusee-and-chain transmission system that features the firm’s most advanced silicon balance spring ever. As if that weren’t enough, Breguet is actually the watchmaker that invented the tourbillon escapement, the ultimate in watchmaking technology when it premiered in the early nineteenth century. With the release of their Tradition 7047, Breguet again proves itself a watchmaker ahead of its time.

Movement: Hand-wound mechanical with anthracite gray alloy of platinum-group metals and tourbillon regulator.
Functions: Hours, minutes, tourbillon.
Case Material: 950 Platinum with fluted caseband. 41 mm diameter with sapphire caseback.
Dial: Silvered 18K gold. 60-second tourbillon positioned at 1 o’clock.