Luxury watchmakers blend celestial themes with personalization to drive high-end sales
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Kate Youde
Summary
The article covers the luxury watch industry's trend of offering celestial-themed timepieces with personalization options. It highlights Breguet's limited-edition Marine Tourbillon Équation Marchante 5887, celebrating the 225th anniversary of the tourbillon patent, featuring a hand-painted enamel dial showing constellations and the moon over Paris from June 26, 1801. The piece explores how watchmakers are combining astronomical complications (perpetual calendars, moon phases, equation of time) with bespoke customization, and notes that hand-finishing and personalization are driving sales in the high-end watch market.
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· 3 pulledEach of the 25 platinum pieces, which house a perpetual calendar and Breguet's signature 'equation of time'...
The possibilities for personalisation and the appeal of hand-finishing are driving sales
Abraham-Louis Breguet obtained his patent for the tourbillon on the equivalent date in the French Republican calendar of June 26 1801.
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