Hi!
I was thinking about my next purchase, it'll still be a good while before i pull the trigger, and I am/was seriously leaning towards the GMT-IIc in SS/18kt. However, I've seriously become infatuated with the Breguet Marine Big Date, went window shopping the other...and bam! there it was in all its glory!
And it got me thinking, sensibly the GMT is much cheaper, its half gold and it makes far much more 'money sense'...but the Breguet is just WOW
hand decorated dial, transparent case back, beautiful rotor, 65 hours power reserve, and its Breguet! - another neat fact for those that didnt know, Abraham Louis Breguet invented the tourbillion!
however, I just wanted everyone to share their thoughts, opinions, experiences that they have of or towards the brand. It kinda surprises me that we people generally talk about the top manufacturers we immediately here of the trinity - AP, Patek, VC.......and then we get into Lange, GO, JLC, Chopard and so forth.....Where does Breguet in your opinion line up in all of this....
I did a wikipedia search and found a huge list of clients, again WOW:
Breguet's distinguished patrons:
* Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
* Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
* Louis XVI, King of France
* Charles de Choiseul-Praslin, Duc de Choiseul-Praslin
* Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Sovereign Prince of Beneventum
* Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
* Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor
* General Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc ,
* George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV
* William, Prince of Wurttemberg, later William I of Württemberg
* Joséphine de Beauharnais, French Empress
* Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer
* Selim III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
* Caroline Murate, Queen of Naples
* Tsar Alexander I of Russia
* George III, King of England
* Prince Ferdinand of Spain, later Ferdinand VII of Spain
* Infante Carlos, Count of Molina , Prince of Spain
* Michel Ney, Marshal of France
* Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria , Empress of France
* George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
* Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk
* Louis XVIII , King of France
* Count Axel von Fersen, Swedish diplomat
* Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
* George Washington, 1st American President
* Philippe, Comte de Paris
* Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
* Fuad I, was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur.
* Arthur Rubinstein, Master pianist
* Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, founder of the automobile company
* Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer
* Prince George of Greece and Denmark
* Edward VIII , later The Duke of Windsor
* Lola Astanova, Virtuoso pianist
* Nicolas Sarkozy, French president
* Leo Tolstoy, Russian author
* Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate
* Victor Hugo, writer
* Charles, Prince of Wales, English heir to the throne.
Some pics of the Big-Date, they are borrowed from another site, and they do not belong to me, I hope no one minds, if it is deemed to be inappropriate i will take them down.
Anyways, hope this tread adds more spice to the forum!
