Look at this monster. This is a Breguet Transatlantique XX, one of the most accessible of watches in the house (the steel version goes for about $6,000 on a good day) but they’ve essentially destroyed it by making it out of gold with a white gold clasp. My initial impression after seeing the PR shots was “Huh, this is OK.” Then I saw the video after the jump. ABlogtoRead takes the video itself apart for sounding more like a 6th grade Sex Ed filmstrip than a sales video, but by gar if I hate the gold on this.
The Transatlantique is based on Breguet’s post-WWII military watches and has a date and flyback chrono, two features sorely lacking on most classic chronos. Great stuff when it doesn’t look like it belongs on the wrist of a sunburned mafioso.
After watching the video again after reviewing it a while ago, it sounds like “Rich” from Gray & Sons spend a good deal of his life crying. After a stint in therapy and a lot of anti-depressants he found a place with a tone-deaf low budget watch review film producer. Now he’s the one causing people to cry, and not the other way around. How poetic.
The Breguet Type XX does marvelous in steel and titanium. Thanks for the mention.
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