Breguet
Classique 7147
7147BB/12/9WU
Hand-engraved guilloché in 18k white gold — Breguet classicism distilled.
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Overview
The Breguet Classique 7147BB/12/9WU is a 40 mm dress watch cased in 18k white gold, housing the in-house Calibre 502.3 SC. Its silvered gold dial is decorated by hand on a rose engine, continuing a tradition of guilloché craftsmanship that Breguet has practiced since the eighteenth century.
History
The Classique line has long served as Breguet's purest expression of its founding aesthetic — clean symmetry, restrained ornament, and meticulous hand finishing. Reference 7147 in white gold was introduced around 2016 and remains in production, representing the contemporary iteration of a design philosophy Abraham-Louis Breguet himself codified. The rose-engine guilloché on the dial is executed by specialist craftsmen using techniques largely unchanged from the era of the maison's founder.
Notable points
- Case is 40 mm 18k white gold, a scale well suited to the formal dress context the Classique line occupies.
- Calibre 502.3 SC is a manufacture movement, reflecting Breguet's commitment to in-house production across its classical references.
- The silvered gold dial receives its guilloché decoration by hand on a rose engine — a labour-intensive process that produces the characteristic concentric or radial wave patterns associated with the house.
- Rose-engine turning (tour à guillocher) is a craft Breguet has maintained continuously, making it one of the few maisons to perform this work entirely in-house.
- The reference sits within the broader Classique collection, which traces its design lineage directly to the pocket-watch idiom Abraham-Louis Breguet established in late-eighteenth-century Paris.
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