5157

Hand-wound, and with an more lively guilloché dial:

but the lovely long lugs make otherwise reasonable diameter cases unworkable for my 16cm wrists. I finally learned I had to pay attention to lug-to-lug dimensions 38mm 5157 (44.7 lug-lug) proved too big but 38mm Omega Speedy reduced (44mm l-l) and 38mm Bl

Turns out theres a local AD near me and got to check out my favorite model. I love simple two handed watches. Unfortunately. My wallet hates them. DON

Much talk has been about the revival of the Marine collection, but one highlight for me certainly was the new Classique 5157 in red gold, just a a soupçon of a timepiece at 38.0 x 5.4mm. Superbly refined watchmaking... Finally a slim Breguet that sits bea

A Breguet 5157 for you! Or A Breguet 5277 #!2454 or, I suppose a Breguet 5177...which is their most popular Classique, judging by the 15 (!) variants.

Hi, friend and I were watch shopping and he likes the Classique collection. What he also noticed is that there were some discontinued models. Our concern is will we be able to have a Breguet service thirty years from now should that particular model be di

Yes I agree! I think it must be 30 percent less than other thin automatics on the market at the same level of finishing I did some research and it is amazing that thin designs were part of Breguet;s philosophy since the beginning. Apparently he took Lepin

This is a great example of Breguet's rose engine turned dials Breguet starts their dials with 18k gold plates and the engraver uses a rose engine to cut the dial. The pressure is all done by feel and each engraver can cut two differ dials even with the sa

very thin watches. And if I like the watch a lot, one version is not enough. Probably a very stupid policy... Anyhow, one of my favorite ultra-slim watches is Breguet Ref. 5157. This watch has a perfect size for me, 38.00 mm and it is just 5.40 mm thin. I

Andrew, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. I appreciate you opinion. I looked at other Breguets (classic) over the past year. And decided on the 5157. The problem with a larger watch is I have a small wrist. I do not know much about the