2025BH/28/9W6
Classique 2025
Lug width: Screwed bars
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The story · Since 1823
The story of the Breguet Classique
A Classique is built from codes Abraham-Louis Breguet set in his Paris workshop, opened in 1775: fluted coin-edge case, engine-turned dial, blued pomme hands. In 2025, 250 years on, the Classique Souscription 2025 took the top prize at the GPHG.
- 1775 to 1823 Codes from the Quai de l'Horloge Abraham-Louis Breguet opened his own workshop on the Ile de la Cite in Paris in 1775 and worked until his death in 1823.
- 1983 Five codes on record In 1983 Europa Star listed the five codes of the Breguet style: fluted cases, delicately rounded horns, hand-guilloche dials with a signature window, apple hands and the pin buckle.
- 1987 to 1999 Tourbillon, Investcorp, Swatch Group In 1988 Breguet launched the 36 mm ref. 3350, its first wristwatch tourbillon, developed under Roth.
- 2006 to 2016 Silicon, then grand feu enamel Breguet adopted silicon balance springs in 2006.
- 2025 Two hundred and fifty years For the 250th anniversary Breguet released the Classique Souscription 2025, a one-hand watch based on a late 18th-century pocket watch, which won the GPHG Aiguille d'Or.
36 mm
case diameter of the Roth-era refs. 3050, 3310 and 3350
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36 mmcase diameter of the Roth-era refs. 3050, 3310 and 3350
72,000 vphbeat rate of the Classique 7225's calibre 74SC
Chapters
- 1775 to 1823
Codes from the Quai de l'Horloge
Abraham-Louis Breguet opened his own workshop on the Ile de la Cite in Paris in 1775 and worked until his death in 1823. The modern Classique draws on the codes he and his successors set: fluted coin-edge cases, engine-turned dials and blued pomme hands.
- 1983
Five codes on record
In 1983 Europa Star listed the five codes of the Breguet style: fluted cases, delicately rounded horns, hand-guilloche dials with a signature window, apple hands and the pin buckle. Europa Star later noted that the 2019 Classique 9068 still followed them.
- 1987 to 1999
Tourbillon, Investcorp, Swatch Group
In 1988 Breguet launched the 36 mm ref. 3350, its first wristwatch tourbillon, developed under Roth. Investcorp took over the company after the Chaumet brothers' bankruptcy, and Roth left to go independent. In 1999 Breguet joined the Swatch Group under Nicolas G. Hayek.
- 2006 to 2016
Silicon, then grand feu enamel
Breguet adopted silicon balance springs in 2006. By April 2016 a new 40 mm by 6.10 mm Classique, ref. 7147, with an offset small seconds, was in reviewers' hands.
- 2025
Two hundred and fifty years
For the 250th anniversary Breguet released the Classique Souscription 2025, a one-hand watch based on a late 18th-century pocket watch, which won the GPHG Aiguille d'Or. In October came the 41 mm Classique 7225, beating at 10 Hz on a magnetically pivoted balance, and the 39 mm 7235 with curved lugs borrowed from the Souscription.
Worn by
Brian CoxScreen
Film role, not personal ownership: as media patriarch Logan Roy in HBO's Succession he has been seen wearing a Breguet Classique, reference not identified.
Moments
2025. On 13 November 2025, the one-hand Classique Souscription 2025 won the GPHG Aiguille d'Or. The jury said it embodied one of watchmaking's greatest challenges: simplicity.
Screen: in HBO's Succession, Brian Cox's Logan Roy wears a Breguet Classique, a character choice noted by The Hollywood Reporter and Mr Porter.
Designed by
Louis-Maurice Cailletco-designer
The prototypist worked alongside Roth on early Roth-era Classiques, among them the ref. 3130 power reserve and moon phase.
Awards
- 2025Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve · Aiguille d'Or Grand Prix
The one-hand Classique Souscription 2025 won best in show in Breguet's 250th anniversary year.
Generations and strap changes
- 2025Classique Souscription 2025
A single blued hand on a grand feu enamel dial, inspired by the Souscription watch of the late 18th century; GPHG Aiguille d'Or 2025.
Ref. 2025BH/28/9W6 listed by Delugs at 40 mm with 21 mm lugs.
- 2025Classique 7225 and 7235
The 7225 regulator runs at 10 Hz with a magnetically pivoted balance staff and about 60 hours of reserve; the 7235 moon phase is limited to 250 pieces.
7225 is 41 mm, 7235 is 39 mm; the 7235 switches to curved lugs, unlike the straight lugs of earlier Classiques.
- 1990Ref. 3137 power reserve and moon
The 36 mm ref. 3130, inspired by Breguet's No. 5, gained a display back around 1990 as ref. 3137; it was later succeeded by the slightly larger ref. 7137.
The 7137 successor is listed by Delugs at 39 mm with 20 mm lugs.
- 1988Ref. 3350 Tourbillon
Breguet's first wristwatch tourbillon, on a Lemania-based calibre 558, with three blued seconds hands sweeping a 20-second scale.
Case 36 mm.
- 1976Ref. 3050 perpetual calendar
Roth's first major release reworked a Breguet pocket watch perpetual calendar as an automatic wristwatch; the later ref. 3057 added a display back.
Case 36 mm in diameter and 8 mm thin.