Credits: Article and images by Celine Yap @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/emmanuel-breguet-interview/
Would you be able to tell us if he was considered a stylish man in his time?
Probably yes. In the sense he was a contemporary artist. The word designer did not exist at the time. But artist, aesthetic, drawing… and I consider Breguet as a true artist. Because each enamel or guilloché dial was a white page for a new design. More or less, he never made two identical watches. Each time he needed to do something new. He refused to be specialized in some products. He wanted to explore all the facets of watchmaking. I found some letters of bankers, of friends of Breguet, who’d said to him, “My dear Breguet, you do too many different, please be careful. You have to produce some repeating watches, some tact watches, some simple watches, and some travel clocks, and that’s it. Stop exploring so many things. Be concentrated on some key pieces and you could be rich.” And Breguet refused.
If you spoke about Breguet today, it’s because Breguet explored all the facets of watchmaking, and refused to do an easy work. Easy work consisted of producing only five categories of pieces and making them in a mass series production. He refused until the end of his life. He experimented new revolution with watches with two movements, resonance, the first chronograph, the first split second chronograph. And he was also very modern and innovative in terms of communication.
Credits: Article and images by Celine Yap @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/emmanuel-breguet-interview/
