Breguet makes the best dials in the biz. Yeah, we said it.
Their signature engine-turned dials, individually numbered and hand-finished, are simply beautiful works of art. You’d be hard-pressed to find such fine attention to detail in a watch costing many times what, say, a time-only or time-and-date model from the brand’s Heritage line trades for.
This incredible piece, a Reference 3660 combines a number of different guilloché finishes. A central dial wave guilloché, a separate subsidiary-seconds guilloché, and a third finish around the periphery of the dial interweb with one another to create a masterpiece of fine detail. To this day, Breguet continues to execture their engine-turned dials by hand on a rose lathe.
These details taken alone would make for a beautiful piece. But the 3660 steps a bit further down the line with a tonneau case. Wearing a bit larger, but close to the wrist, the 3660 has a bit more personality and charm than a more conventional round watch.
In many ways, this piece reminds us of what we’d envision for a dressy and more buttoned up version of a Franck Muller. That's no shade to FM, but Breuget has been consistently creating mechanical pieces of art for 214 years and counting!
This wonderful piece trades for a fraction of what a comparable Patek Philippe would, and provides both the design, and build quality that we have come to expect from Breguet and other high horology makers.
In short, it’s freaking awesome.