It goes without saying: 2020 was far from an ideal year for most of us. Looking back, however, it was also a year that brought many noteworthy watch launches despite the huge obstacles posed by the pandemic and its effects on the world economy. As we look ahead hopefully to 2021, it’s time for our annual look back at some of those timepieces, in various popular categories. Today, we focus on 2020’s most memorable tourbillon-equipped timepieces.

Breguet’s Classique Double Tourbillon 5345 Quai de L?Horloge pays the most direct tribute yet to founder (and inventor of the tourbillon) Abraham-Louis Breguet and to the Parisian atelier where he created his early masterpieces while also displaying the manufacture’s 21st-Century technical and decorative mastery. Its two-tourbillon movement, connected by a differential device and in full view behind a sapphire dial, rotates the entire plate in sequence with the passing hours, and its hand-finished array of components include mainplates and bridges in solid gold, a Breguet first. On the rear side of the manually wound Caliber 588N is the painstakingly applied micro-artistry that lends the model its name: a rendering of the ?House on the Quai,? the workshop on Paris?s Ile de la Cité where Abraham-Louis Breguet plied his trade back in the 18th Century. Click here for more details and photos.
Breguet Classique Double Tourbillon 5345 Quai de L’Horloge

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