Guide on Men’s Watches: Breguet Classique Alarm Reveil du Tsar

By: Leroy Fong

The Breguet Classique Alarm Reveil du Tsar has functions covering from hour, minute, small seconds, date, second time-zone, alarm, and a 24 hour timing. These are created from its automatic movement using 24 jewels Breguet 519F caliber. It has Cotes de Geneve designs and a gold guilloche patterned rotor. All these are hand-finished. It has 45 hours of power reserve.

It has two available types of case: 18K yellow-gold or white gold. The case is 40mm in diameter and a thickness of 11.4mm. It uses a curved sapphire crystal that is scratch resistant.

There are two crowns on the case and one is situated at 2 for winding and time-setting. The other is located at 4 for the alarm setting.

There is also a pusher at 8 to control the sonnerie. Its caseback is transparent with sapphire crystal to show the movement within. Water resistant for this watch is 30m.

Its dial is silvered and the center circle is hand-finished guilloche pattern. The outer ring has printed minute track represented by black dots. The inner ring is brushed with printed Roman numerals. Its central hands and the sub-dial hands are the Breguet hand in blue steel.

There are a few indicators within the dial: alarm with dual hands located at 3, small seconds at 6, 24-hour second time zone at 9, the power reserve in-between 10 and 12, and lastly the sonnerie status is shown at 12. It uses crocodile leather for the straps with fold-over yellow-gold buckle.

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