The Queen of Naples played a big part in the history of women’s watches for Breguet. These fabulous wristwatches combine mechanical movements with an oval shaped case where the exquisite dial is seen as an eye-catcher. What makes this concept so important is that all these watches and timepieces are created specifically for ladies which no other watchmaker could do. They come equipped with a variety of  beautiful dial options all crafted with precise detail.

The fascinating part about Breguet’s watches is that their beauty doesn’t just lie on the outside but also in the inside. These watches are very serious mechanical creations. The timepiece that portrays this best is the Tradition Dame, which the mechanics can be seen through the dial. The mechanics are very intriguing on a elegant and feminine watch. What adds more beauty is the subtle details such as the diamonds set around the bezel.

Breguet’s traditional dial features a  guilloche design on the dial while many other Breguet timepieces also feature a mother-of-pearl dial. Breguet has become a master in working with this fragile material and can not only engrave it but also offer it with refined guilloche patterns. Given that, the exceptional is that they are all created by hand. The result is however of such a refined elegance that it without a doubt would have pleased Abraham-Louis Breguet himself.

When the transition of pocket watches to wristwatches happened, minute repeaters were barely used. In wristwatches it was very hard and expensive to add a minute repeater and it also did not have much space in the wristwatch to be added. It was not until the quartz crisis that a renewed interest emerged for the repeater mechanism. Today’s top brands use minute repeaters in their timepieces and sometimes combined with other complications.

To judge how well a minute repeater is, it has to be heard first. The clarity or loudness of the chime does not rank a minute repeater but speed that it is chiming at does. Many complications take great energy and when it is playing, it can also negatively affect the amplitude of the watch, and therefore its accuracy.

The case of watch plays a big role in the excellence of minute repeaters. The material it is made of has great impact on the sound it plays and also the case shape changes that sound. Many great manufacturers create sound chambers in their timepieces so that gongs can perform their task at an optimum and the sound is also amplified.