Breguet Marine Assortment references 5517, 5527 and 5547 now with Titanium Bracelet (Specs & Worth)

All through the “Time To Switch” event, which gathered six of basically essentially the most prestigious producers of the Swatch Group, the star of the current for Breguet was the actually spectacular Skeleton mannequin of the Extraordinarily-Skinny Automated Tourbillon. This wasn’t the one novelty and the mannequin moreover launched an evolution of its freshly redesigned Marine assortment. This yr, it turns into even sportier, as a result of the Marine 5517, Marine Chronographe 5527, and Marine Alarme Musicale 5547 are literally on the market in full titanium, bracelet included.

The Marine assortment by Breguet is a recent imaginative and prescient of the watches made by A.L. Breguet on the time he was Chronometer-Maker to the Royal Navy – a title given to him by King Louis XVIII of France in 1815. For over twenty years, the Breguet Marine assortment was positioned as a recent, additional sturdy and barely sportier imaginative and prescient of the mannequin’s mannequin. In 2018, the mannequin launched a totally revised assortment, comprising three fashions – Marine 5517, Marine Chronographe 5527, and Marine Alarme Musicale 5547 – on the market in gold or titanium, each on rubber or alligator straps.

For 2019, all three fashions present a full-titanium look, along with the bracelet. In all fairness, this is not such a surprising switch from the mannequin, considering the trigger for being of this watch and the demand for full-metal watches (notably for warmth worldwide places or additional humid areas the place metallic is additional cozy). What’s additional surprising, nonetheless, is to see a full-metal watch from Breguet. There have been some fashions beforehand for optimistic, nonetheless always in low volumes. Breguet watches are additional usually seen on straps in step with their elegant nature.

The result, on the market on the 3-hand Marine 5517, the Marine Chronographe 5527 and the Marine Alarme Musicale 5547, is good, as long as you accept having the establish Breguet written on the dial of such a daring, sporty and extremely efficient watch. The bracelet is totally built-in into the case and is sized in response to the diameter of the watch – 20mm huge on the 5517 and 5547 with 40mm circumstances, and 22mm huge on the 5527 Chronograph, with its 42.3mm diameter.

The choice for titanium is, then once more, terribly sensible. As “marine-oriented” watches designed to be worn on a ship’s deck or to resist a splash of salty water, the number of titanium and its extreme resistance to corrosion is smart. Second, all of it comes proper right down to comfort and since titanium is way lighter than metallic … Thus, these three references, no matter being full-metal fashions and fairly large, placed on very comfortably. This bracelet incorporates a triple folding clasp.

The remaining is acquainted and an similar to the sooner Marine references on rubber or alligator straps. The circumstances are brushed and polished, the dial is simply on the market in sunburst grey with utilized, luminous Roman numerals – which reinforces the metallic look. Powering these watches are in-house computerized actions with beautiful decoration, along with a correctly shaped rotor and bridges adorned with a particular pattern: guilloched Geneva stripes, paying homage to picket decks on a ship. All watches are water-proof to 100m, apart from the Marine Alarme Musicale 5547 that, resulting from its chiming function, is rated to 50m. All completely different specs keep an similar to the watches we reviewed proper right here and proper right here.

These watches will rapidly be obtainable in outlets, on the next prices:

• Breguet Marine 5517 titanium bracelet ref. 5517TI/G2/TZ0 – CHF 19,400
• Breguet Marine Chronographe 5527 titanium bracelet ref. 5527TI/G2/TW0 – CHF 23,500
• Breguet Marine Alarme Musicale 5547 titanium bracelet ref. 5547TI/G2/TZ0 – CHF 30,400

Further particulars on breguet.com.