Breguet’s Marine Royale 5847 comes with an alarm device that can only delight both amateur divers and aficionados of exceptional complications. Underwater tests confirm that sound travels better through water than through air. Sound waves require material support and their speed increases with the density of the environment. Sound travels about four times faster under than above water. Furthermore, as the underwater milieu is generally far less noisy than the aerial one, the alarm’s sound is perceived with greater clarity underwater.

The alarm setting crown and on-off pushpiece, in gold, are sheathed in rubber for easier handling, adding a further touch of sporty elegance. The watch naturally possesses the usual diver’s -watch features, not least a one -way rotating bezel and luminous markers. The bezel’s unidirectional rotation is secured by a blocking pawl, visible and located between the two winding crowns on the case flank. Shaped like a wave, it recalls the watch’s essential functions. To improve its legibility even in the murkiest waters, its minute markers and hand along with the hour hand are coated with white luminous superluminova while the alarm markers glow blue. Represented by a blue triangular pointer at 10 o’clock, the alarm’s power-reserve indicator is also luminous.

Rounding out its attributes, the Marine Royale 5847 possesses a date indicator and a self -winding mechanism. Two versions are available : white or pink gold cases, with an 18 kt gold dial with black rhodium finish. Both are manually engine-turned with the collection’s dedicated wave pattern.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
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Case: round, in 18K rose gold with finely fluted caseband. Manually engine-turned caseback fitted with a sapphire crystal. Diameter: 45 mm. Rounded horns welded to the case, screw pins securing the strap. Wave -shaped ratchet at 3 o’clock serving to ensure the bezel’s one -way rotation. One-way rotating bezel with luminous marker. Rubber-covered alarm on/off pushpiece at 8 o’clock. Alarm setting pushpiece at 4 o’clock
sheathed in black rubber. Screw-locked crowns. Water-resistant to 30 bar (300m).

Dial: 18K gold with black rhodium finish, displaying a wave pattern manually engraved on a rose engine. Individually numbered and signed BREGUET. Chapter ring with applied pink gilt Roman numerals and luminous dots. Triangular hand at the center for setting the alarm time. Alarm power -reserve indication in an aperture between 9 and 11 o’clock. Alarm on/off indicator in a round aperture at 12 o’clock . Date at 6 o’clock. Facetted, open-tipped BREGUET hands in 18-carat gold, coated with a luminous compound.

Movement: self-winding mechanical, with alarm mechanism, numbered and signed BREGUET. Cal. 519R. 12 lines, 36 jewels. 45-hour power-reserve. Engine-turned 18K rose gold rotor. Frequency 4 Hz. Straight -line lever escapement. Balance-wheel with regulating screws. Adjusted in 5 positions. Rubber strap.

Also available in 18K white gold and with a leather strap.

Breguet’s Marine collection draws its inspiration from the original designs created by Breguet himself for the French Royal Navy after his 1815 appointment as Horologist to the French Navy. Sturdy in design, Breguet Marine watches have for decades been reputed for their dependable performances. In 2004 Breguet launched a new interpretation of this product line, featuring a markedly more contemporary and sporty but ever elegant design. Following the launch in 2007 of the first tourbillon-equipped chronograph with silicon escapement, this year brings a groundbreaking new design: the Marine Royale alarm watch, water-resistant to 300 m.

Breguet’s Marine Royale 5847 comes with an alarm device that can only delight both amateur divers and aficionados of exceptional complications. Underwater tests confirm that sound travels better through water than through air. Sound waves require material support and their speed increases with the density of the environment. Sound travels about four times faster under than above water. Furthermore, as the underwater milieu is generally far less noisy than the aerial one, the alarm’s sound is perceived with greater clarity underwater.

The alarm setting crown and on-off pushpiece, in gold, are sheathed in rubber for easier handling, adding a further touch of sporty elegance. The watch naturally possesses the usual diver’s-watch features, not least a one-way rotating bezel inscribed with a graduated 20-minute sector. The bezel’s unidirectional rotation is secured by a blocking pawl, visible and located between the two winding crowns on the case flank. Shaped like a wave, it recalls the watch’s essential functions. To improve its legibility even in the murkiest waters, its minute markers and hand along with the hour hand are coated with white luminous superluminova while the hour and alarm markers glow blue. Represented by a blue triangular pointer at 10 o’clock, the power-reserve indicator is also luminous.

Rounding out its attributes, the Marine Royale 5847 possesses a date indicator and a self-winding mechanism. The white gold version comes with an 18 kt dial with black rhodium finish while the pink gold version features an 18 kt pink gold dial. Both are manually engine-turned with the collection’s dedicated wave pattern.

Also available in 18K white gold with black rhodium dial as well as with a leather strap.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Case:
round, in 18K rose gold with finely fluted caseband. Sapphire-crystal glass with magnifying lens over the date at 6 o’clock. Manually engine-turned caseback fitted with a sapphire crystal. Diameter: 45 mm. Rounded horns welded to the case, screw pins securing the strap. Wave-shaped ratchet at 3 o’clock serving to ensure the bezel’s one-way rotation. Rubber-covered alarm on/off pushpiece at 8 o’clock. Alarm setting pushpiece at 4 o’clock sheathed in black rubber. Screw-locked crowns. Water-resistant to 300m.

Dial:
18K pink gold, displaying a wave pattern manually engraved on a rose engine. Individually numbered and signed BREGUET. Chapter ring with applied blued Roman numerals and luminous dots. Triangular hand at the center for setting the alarm time. Alarm power-reserve indication in an aperture between 9 and 11 o’clock. Alarm on/off indicator in a round aperture at 12 o’clock. Date at 6 o’clock. Facetted, open-tipped BREGUET hands in 18-carat blued gold, coated with a luminous compound.

Movement:
self-winding mechanical, with alarm mechanism, numbered and signed BREGUET. Cal. 519R. 12 lines, 36 jewels. 45-hour power-reserve. Engine-turned 18K rose gold rotor. Frequency 4 Hz. Straight-line lever escapement. Balance-wheel with regulating screws. Adjusted in 5 positions.

Breguet is a manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and is the pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, the most notable being the tourbillon, invented by Abraham Louis Breguet. Breguet has recently introduced a line of writing instruments as a tribute to writers who mention or feature Breguet watches in their works. Breguet watches are often easily recognized for their coin-edge cases, guilloché dials and blue pomme hands (often now referred to as ‘Breguet hands’).

History!

Beginnings

Breguet was founded in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet at the Quai de l’Horloge on the Ile de la Cite in Paris following his marriage to the daughter of a prosperous French bourgeois. Her dowry provided the “financing” which allowed him to open his own workshop. The connections Breguet had made with scholarly people during his apprenticeship as a watchmaker and as a student of mathematics soon paid off. Following his introduction to the court, whereupon Queen Marie-Antoinette grew fascinated by Breguet’s unique self-winding watch, Louis XVI bought several of his watches. Marie Antoinette commissioned the watch that was to contain every watch function known at that time, including the following:

* A Clock

* A Perpetual Calendar

* A Repeater

* A Thermometer

* A Chronograph

* A Power-Reserve

* A Pare-Chute

Marie Antoinette never lived to see the watch, as it was completed 34 years later, long after she had been executed. This watch is now part of the watch collection at the Islamic Museum in Jerusalem – Israel.

Company Timeline

* 1775 – Founded in Paris by A. L. Breguet

* 1780 – Launch of its first self winding watch known as the “Perpetuelle”

* 1790 – Invention of the Pare-Chute, an anti-shock device

* 1801 – Patent of the Tourbillon Regulator

* 1870 – Company bought from the descendants of Breguet by E. Brown Jewelers, London

* 1970 – Bought by Chaumet Jewelers

* 1987 – Bought from Chaumet, during bankruptcy, by Investcorp

* 1991 – Valdar was bought and folded into Groupe Horloger Breguet (GHB), still under the ownership of Investcorp

* 1992 – Nouvelle Lemania, a manufacture of watch movements, was brought into GHB

* 1999 – September 4 – Swatch group announces plans for the purchase of GHB

Collections

Gentlemen:

* Classique: Simple, Grandes Complications – popular round pieces, usually with reeded bezels and soldered lugs

* Marine – water-resistant, distinguished by the presence of crown guards.

* Heritage – tonneau-shaped cases

* Type XX,XXI – sturdy chronographs, based on WWII-era pilots watches.

* La Tradition – similar to the long gone Souscription by Breguet, open-faced watches with the movement on the front, along with a small face

Lady’s: (mainly distinguished by diamonds)

* Classique

* Marine

* Heritage

* Type XX

* Reine de Naples – oval bezels

Notable owners of Breguet watches:

* Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

* Louis XVI, King of France

* Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer

* Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor

* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

* Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento

* Count Axel von Fersen, Swedish diplomat

* Joséphine de Beauharnais, French Empress

* Selim III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

* Caroline Murate, Queen of Naples

* Tsar Alexander I of Russia

* Michel Ney, Marshal of France

* George Washington, 1st American President

* Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

* Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

* Arthur Rubinstein, Master pianist

* Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer

* Lola Astanova, Virtuoso pianist

* Nicolas Sarkozy, French president

* Leo Tolstoy, Russian author

* Maestro Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor

One of the few watch companies not under Movado

Breguet is a manufacturer of fine watches, founded by Abraham Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and is the pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, the most famous being the tourbillon, invented by Abraham Louis Breguet. Breguet has recently introduced a line of writing instruments as a tribute to writers who mention or feature Breguet watches in their works. Breguet watches are often easily recognized for their coin-edge cases, fine guilloché dials and distinctive blue pomme hands (often now referred to as ‘Breguet hands’).

    * 1 History

          o 1.1 Beginnings

          o 1.2 Company Timeline

          o 1.3 Collections

          o 1.4 Notable owners

    * 2 Trivia

    * 3 External links

 History

 Beginnings

Breguet was founded in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet at the quai de l’Horloge on the Ile de la Cite following his marriage to the daughter of a prosperous French bourgeois. Her dowry provided the “financing” which allowed him to open his own workshop. The connections Breguet had made with scholarly people during his apprenticeship as a watchmaker and as a student of mathematics soon paid off with spectacular results. Following his introduction to the court, whereupon Queen Marie-Antoinette grew fascinated by Breguet’s unique self-winding watch, Louis XVI had bought several of his watches. Marie Antoinette would commission the famous watch that was to contain every single watch function known to man at the time, including the following:

    * A Clock

    * A Perpetual Calendar

    * A Repeater

    * A Thermometer

    * A Chronograph

    * A Power-Reserve

    * A Pare-Chute

Marie Antoinette never lived to see the watch, as it was completed 34 years later, long after she was executed.

 Company Timeline

    * 1775 – Founded in Paris by A. L. Breguet

    * 1780 – Launch of its first self winding watch known as the “Perpetuelle”

    * 1790 – Invention of the Pare-Chute, an anti-shock device

    * 1801 – Patent of the Tourbillon Regulator

    * 1870 – Bought from the descendants of Breguet by E. Brown Jewelers, London

    * 1970 – Bought by Chaumet Jewelers

    * 1987 – Bought from Chaumet, during bankruptcy, by Investcorp

    * 1991 – Valdar was bought, and folded into Groupe Horloger Breguet (GHB), still under the ownership of Investcorp

    * 1992 – Nouvelle Lemania, a manufacture of watch movements, was brought into GHB

    * 1999, September 4 – Swatch group announces plans for the purchase of GHB

 Collections

Gentleman’s:

    * Classique: Simple, Grandes Complications – popular round-bezel pieces

    * Marine – water-resistant, often with non-metal straps

    * Heritage – rectangular bezels

    * Type XX – sturdy, based on WWII-era pilots watches

    * La Tradition – similar to the long gone Souscription by Breguet

Lady’s:(many distinguished by diamonds)

    * Classique

    * Marine

    * Heritage

    * Type XX

    * Reine de Naples – oval bezels

Breguet also makes clocks, jewelry (for women), and writing instruments/cases, as a tribute to the authors who incorporated the watches into their works.

 Notable owners

    * Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

    * Louis XVI, King of France

    * Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French Explorer

    * Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

    * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

    * Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento

    * Count Axel von Fersen, Swedish diplomat

    * Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French

    * Selim III, sultan of the Ottoman Empire

    * Caroline Murate, Queen of Naples

    * Tsar Alexander I of Russia

    * Michel Ney, Marshal of France

    * George Washington, 1st American President

    * Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

    * Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

    * Arthur Rubinstein, Master pianist

    * Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer

    * Lola Astanova, Virtuoso pianist

    * Nicolas Sarkozy, French president

    * Leo Tolstoy, Russian author

    * Maestro Valery Gergiev, Russian Conductor

Fictional owners:

    * Dr. Stephen Maturin in Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic War novels

    * Baron d’Anglars from Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo

    * Phileas Fogg from Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days

    * Eugene Onegin in Alexander Pushkin’s Onegin

    * Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

 Trivia

Breguet offered a piece to navigator Bougainville as he was organizing his great expedition to the North Pole.