The Classique 7137 watch brilliantly expresses a style un-swayed by time. It displays the attributes of the brand with studied delicacy, giving pride of place to the work of the master engine-turner, and it is directly inspired by a Breguet icon, the celebrated watch n5, delivered in 1794 to Count Journiac St. Mard and bought by Nicolas G. Hayek for the Breguet Museum.

Breguet's renowned extra-thin self-winding movement activates the different functions on a silvered gold dial engine-turned by hand. The phases of the moon at 2 counterbalance the power-reserve indicator located at 10; the date is at 6, and the central hours and minutes track the circular path of the Breguet hands in blued steel with open-worked tips. The decorations illuminate the display of time. While the face dons the traditional engine-turned hobnail pattern, the dates enhance their appearance with a sunburst motif in which each ray points to a date. The 45-hour power-reserve indicator for its part ripples in the light of a flinqu decoration. The hand-engraved mechanism reveals its intricacy through the sapphire-crystal back of the case, which is available in yellow or white gold.
A pillar of watchmaking tradition, Breguet has a long and distinguished lineage. Its founder, Abraham-Louis Breguet is considered by many as the father of watchmaking. Indeed, he is one of the greatest horologists of all time. Since 1775, clients have included Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie-Antoinette, Winston Churchill, Alexander Dumas, Princes, Dukes, Sultans and Kings. Breguet's influence on watchmaking is unequalled. He perfected the self-winding watch, created the first oil-free escapement, incorporated the first shock absorber into a timepiece, developed perpetual date mechanisms, and invented and patented the Tourbillon. Signature Breguet styling is evident in today's masterpieces; blue steel hands, guilloche engraving, and the fluted caseband.