Transparency
On Friday 14th December 2018, we received an email from Emmanuel Breguet concerning a request we had made 6 months prior, to deconstruct an original Breguet Tourbillon pocket watch, made during the lifetime and by Abraham Louis Breguet, one of those watches that was the first of its kind and influenced an industry in years to come... the reply was « yes ».
From the “echappement natural” a frictionless escapement is as pertinent today as it was 200 years ago and continues to be re-invented. To the aesthetics' of these early watches combined with their technical innovation have not only defined a watch manufacturer, but influenced an industry.
One of the first legendary companies to open their doors to us, was Breguet. When working on early examples of Breguets work, it is virtually impossible not to respect them, when the complexity of the watches is placed in context with the period the watches were made in. Before CNC, CAD even electricity and the myriad of extraordinary technologies that surround us today, watches were then made that have influenced us two centuries on.
In today's World Wide Web, transparency is necessary and inevitable when making products of any kind. Secrets cannot easily be kept, and on the basis that we all have an opinion, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. As a result, much dis-information is circulated, not only in politics but in watchmaking. Here enters The Naked Watchmaker or the naked 'watch-maker', to show what is mostly hidden and often misunderstood, as a result, then sometimes wrongly perceived.
It is thanks to other openness of companies like Breguet that we can share the facts.