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Breguet’s Tradition Quantième Rétrograde 7597 performs an exquisite mechanical ballet

Alvin Wong

There is nothing better than an open-worked dial to eloquently express a timepiece’s horological spirit. The sight of a mechanical watch’s finely finished inner workings clicking in gear, served by the constant whirring of its beating heart (known as the balance), can be mesmerising and thought-provoking in equal measure. And such experience is especially enriched when we are peering at a creation by Breguet, a 267-year-old marque and a true master of the craft. The Tradition Quantième Rétrograde 7597 is that sort of watch to quicken the pulse. Part of Breguet’s Tradition collection that launched in 2005, the watch bears direct lineage to the brand’s well-documented ‘souscription’ pocket watches from the 18th century, a range of basic but well-crafted timepieces that were made on a subscription basis. Those pocket watches were…

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