For your last-minute Father’s Day gift consideration, we conclude our series of features showcasing notable new watches from Baselworld, in several popular categories, with a look at five calendar watches and moon-phase watches that stood out from the pack.
Breguet based some of the aesthetics of its Classique 7787 Moon Phases wristwatch on a historical Breguet pocketwatch, no. 92, which dates to 1785. Among the vintage-inspired details are the power-reserve scale, decorated with small arrows, and the minuscule stars used to represent the minutes, with five-minute intervals marked by stylized fleurs-de-lis. Released this year in an 18k white gold case, measuring 39 mm in diameter and featuring the delicately fluted caseband characteristic of models in Breguet’s Classique collection, the watch features a Grand Feu enamel dial that hosts central hour, minute and seconds hands, as well as two complications: the age and phases of the moon in an aperture at 12 o?clock and the aforementioned, unconventional power-reserve indicator at 3 o?clock, with an elegant, elongated hand indicating the watch’s remaining energy on a 1-to-38-hour scale. Inside the case, and visible through a clear sapphire caseback, is Breguet’s manufacture Caliber 591DRL, a self-winding mechanical movement only 3.02 mm thick. It stores its 38-hour power reserve in a double barrel and includes an escapement and balance spring made of silicon ? a material Breguet uses for its...