{"id":34575,"date":"2019-11-12T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/?p=34575"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:06:35","slug":"breguets-bet-on-thinness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/breguets-bet-on-thinness.html","title":{"rendered":"Breguet\u2019s bet on thinness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-34568 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Acr2051467062208-7797199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Acr2051467062208-7797199.png 492w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Acr2051467062208-7797199-162x300.png 162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>In this age of aiming for thin, thinner or thinnest in watch movements and cases, <\/b><\/span>few have done it as impressively as Breguet with its Classique Tourbillon Extra Plat Squelette 5395. Not because this is the thinnest tourbillon movement on the market today (other brands have managed to snag that record), but because, when it comes to expressing aesthetics through skeletonized movements and traditional craftmanship, this particular piece shows the brand\u2019s centuries-old pedigree in both design and traditional watchmaking. Breguet has managed to fit in a whole lot of craftmanship and detail in a case that\u2019s 41mm and a movement that\u2019s only three millimeters thick. To achieve this thinness, the movement had to be redesigned to ensure an unobstructed view of the mechanism through the sapphire crystal, which displays the <i>Clou de Paris <\/i>hobnail <i>guilloch\u00e9 <\/i>pattern on the remaining plate surface and the smooth edges of hand-chamfered bridges. This ingenious piece of beauty and fine workmanship is available in two versions : a gray movement in a rose gold case and a rose movement in a platinum case.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Classique Tourbillon Extra Plat Squelette 5395 <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>CASE : <\/b><\/span>18K rose gold, domed sapphire crystal and caseback <span class=\"s1\"><b>SIZE : <\/b><\/span>41mm <span class=\"s1\"><b>MOVEMENT : <\/b><\/span>mechanical self-winding skeleton movement, ultra-thin Breguet Caliber 581SQ, 80-hour power reserve <span class=\"s1\"><b>FUNCTIONS : <\/b><\/span>hours, minutes <span class=\"s1\"><b>DIAL : <\/b><\/span>sapphire dial, signed Breguet <span class=\"s1\"><b>STRAP : <\/b><\/span>alligator strap with gold folding clasp<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this age of aiming for thin, thinner or thinnest in watch movements and cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":34565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34577,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575\/revisions\/34577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}