A brace of Breguets
Discussion
Finally secured the Type XXI I have been after for a quite a while; took a while to find the one I wanted and our own Dom H was the seller; just a thoroughly honest and decent guy to deal with. Can't recommend highly enough! The brown dial is almost impossible to capture with a phone camera. The chronograph with the hour and minute hands on the central pinion is so easy to use and read times from, I'm amazed all other watches don't have it.
Here is is with my 5707, what a pair they make... Not sure I would ever need any other watch.
Here is is with my 5707, what a pair they make... Not sure I would ever need any other watch.
yeah right!
Absolutely fantastic, (I thought you were saving for something else...?), is this the one cyberface lusted after or had...ah, those were the days...
Anyway, well done and a beautiful pair. I can't say too much about the 5707, but the XXI I've looked at before in some detail due to its LM1340 derived movement - it's amazing how much they've brought it along - the development of the LM5100 was to make a simpler/cheaper version of the 134x, which otherwise died out only to be breathed on again once Lemania was subsumed into Bregeut. It's a great little movement as is and...
It's a well finished watch with so much going on after the first glance, a dial of many layers, the flyback, the colour, the bezel finish.....etc etc
Superb chap!
Anyway, well done and a beautiful pair. I can't say too much about the 5707, but the XXI I've looked at before in some detail due to its LM1340 derived movement - it's amazing how much they've brought it along - the development of the LM5100 was to make a simpler/cheaper version of the 134x, which otherwise died out only to be breathed on again once Lemania was subsumed into Bregeut. It's a great little movement as is and...
yeti said:
The chronograph with the hour (second!) and minute hands on the central pinion is so easy to use and read times from, I'm amazed all other watches don't have it.
...is dead on - once you 'get it' it's difficult to un-get though, so be careful!It's a well finished watch with so much going on after the first glance, a dial of many layers, the flyback, the colour, the bezel finish.....etc etc
Superb chap!
andy_s said:
I thought you were saving for something else...?
I am; amazing what you can find money for though when required. I did this deal a while back now, before the grail plan 
Thanks for info on the movement; I thought it was 5100 based, but seems they just share a common ancestor?
I am so impressed with Breguet; I think consumption by Swatch could be the best thing that's happened to them in recent times.
yeti said:
Thanks for info on the movement; I thought it was 5100 based, but seems they just share a common ancestor?
I am so impressed with Breguet; I think consumption by Swatch could be the best thing that's happened to them in recent times.
You can clearly see a direct line of ancestry between the LM1340 / (Omega 1040) - LM1350 (under Breguet) to the LM1372 / Breguet cal. 582. The LM5100 was a 'second cousin' if you will, to the 134x, as the internals were completely different but used the same dial-side display characteristics. I am so impressed with Breguet; I think consumption by Swatch could be the best thing that's happened to them in recent times.
Here's the great grandfather Tissot 1343 -
If it hadn't been for SWATCH, Breguet would never have been resurrected. My only issue is that when Hayek moved Lemania into Breguet and got them to be the 'in-house' movement makers the poor old LM5100, which was definitely not something that Nouvelle Lemania could churn out with such a Breguet high-end connection, died a death...
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