Breguet

Grazie per permettermi di partecipare a questo interessantissimo forum.Vorrei acquistare un orologio Breguet ma mi sono accorto che la maggior parte dei calibri non sono di manifattura ovvero derivano da altre case (Lemania ecc..). Desidro chiedere se i c... 

Hello Giovanni, It's true that the Breguet Cal. 584Q is based on a Lemania caliber, but the movement is proprietary to Breguet, and Lemania is now "Manufacture Breguet" anyway. Regardless, it's a fine movement and the fact of it being definitively "in-hou... 

...rather than the 584Q? And while on the subject, I've been eyeing the XXI for a while, since I respect Breguet and I'm a great fan of chronographs with both central seconds and minutes. What holds me back are some doubts about the movement. Which Lemani... 

Hi Jos. I've spilt more ink on the subject of this movmeent than anybody I'm sure, so just put Breguet 582 into the search engine and read yourself to sleep. _john

... you're right there's quite a lot to say about the 582/584's family tree. The eye opener for me was that it's a descendant of the Lemania 137x - I had no idea! One question though - in one of your posts you say that the 137x in turn descends from the 1... 

Hi Jos. The major portion of the basic chronograph mechanism in the Cal. 582 is virtually identical to the Cal. 1873 (Omega 861/1861), but it is complicated several times over by the rearrangement of the minutes counter (to accomodate the automatic windin...