Breguet has in recent years become increasingly active in telling its own story, and for watch enthusiasts, it’s a really unique story and one well worth knowing. Since the firm was founded by Abraham Breguet in the late 18th century, it’s had, to put it mildly, its ups and downs but it has also for many years produced some of the most beautifully designed watches anywhere in the horological world. Recent years have seen a great deal of attention paid to Breguet’s sports watches (including the rightly well-respected Type XXI) and its more overtly extroverted watches, such as the La Tradition family; and of course it’s been a period of almost unbelievably technical inventiveness --everything from unusual chronograph coupling systems, to novel takes on the minute repeater, to an exploration of and more, have all made Breguet more visible as an innovator than at any time in its history since Breguet himself was alive.