Classique 5247 Chronographe

Classique 5247 Complication –Column-wheel chronograph  

The Classique 5247 watch encloses a manually wound mechanical chronograph movement fitted with a column-wheel device. Featuring a power reserve of 48 hours, the existing calibre has been subject to some readjustments, notably an increase in its frequency, henceforth taken to three hertz.  

In an elegant case of pink gold or white gold, the timepiece returns to dials in white fired enamel, an art now rare in the world of watchmaking and wich requires great mastery of matte rand fire to obtain that marvellous granular consistency. The Breguet secret signature produced by a pantograph with a stylus is fleetingly visible in oblique light.  

The chronograph functions are arranged in balance, wich helps make them perfectly legible. A red tachometer scalein a scroll enables one to measure the speed of an object in motion over a given distance. It is echoed by the central chronograph hand, wich takes on the same vermillion hue. The 30-seconds counter and the small seconds face each other symmetrically at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock. Each sports a blued-steel hand of unusual design. The celebrated Breguet Arabic numerals unfold their graceful calligraphy on an enamel overflown by the classic off-centre and openwork moon hands.

Fitted on a leather strap, the 5247 watch in pink or white gold is available to order with a dial in fired enamel or a silver-plated gold dial that is engine-turned by hand.