AS POETIC AS A SPINDRIFT
This watch duo, with its delicate face and robust body, embodies the brand’s heritage, in particular its founder’s role as Horloger de la Marine (watchmaker to the French royal navy), which it reinterprets through emblematic codes.
Four decades after opening his workshop on the Quai de l’Horloge in Paris, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) was appointed Watchmaker to the Royal Navy by Louis XVIII (1755-1824). This prestigious title, combined with unrivaled expertise, gave birth 175 years later to the Marine collection, a range of sporty-look watches recently modernized. In 2024, Breguet, the current company based in the Vallée de Joux, unveils two new versions of the Marine 9518 which, like their predecessors, reinterpret the legacy of the Neuchâtel-born grand master through emblematic codes.
Each watch in this graceful pairing features a 33.8mm-diameter steel case extended by a bracelet with links machined from the same metal. The case, fitted with a diamond-trimmed bezel, features a fluted caseband and, on its right-hand side, two wave-shaped elements framing the crown. It houses the 591A caliber, a 4hz self-winding movement with a 38-hour power reserve. Regarding the dial, available in ultramarine blue or silver-grey, the Marine 9518 displays several layers, starting from the center towards the flange: a sunray disk holding a pair of luminescent Breguet-style hands and a second hand with the silhouette of a nautical pennant as a counterweight, a ring decorated with circular brushing bearing brilliant-cut diamond hour markers and Roman numerals and opened at 6 o’clock for the date window, and, finally, a circle on which the minute track is installed.
