Breguet Classique 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 Limited Edition
Swiss luxury watch brand Breguet celebrates the Chinese New Year (Year of the Snake) by unveiling the Classique 7145 Lunar New Year 2025. Limited to 8 numbered pieces, this exclusive timepiece highlights two handcrafted artistic techniques: guilloché and engraving.
The Breguet Classique 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 edition showcases the refined art of engraving on gold, a bas-relief technique that transforms the dial into a miniature sculpture.
Each motif is carefully drawn and then sculpted by the artisan, who handles chisels and burins with extreme precision while observing the work under a microscope. This meticulous craftsmanship, the most delicate stage of the process, brings to life subtle and refined details. Finally, the component is cleaned and polished, revealing the depth and brilliance of each engraving, underscoring the Maison’s mastery and watchmaking expertise.
After meticulously engraving every detail of the snake and its environment, Breguet enhances the depth of the artwork by applying a black coating, creating a striking contrast. This is followed by polishing and hand guilloché, which require perfect dexterity to preserve the precision of the already intricate work.
To elevate the foliage, a translucent miniature painting is applied, highlighting various shades of green while maintaining the artisanal essence of the engraving, in harmony with the rest of the dial. This precise and meticulous work, entirely handcrafted, creates a subtle interplay between deep green and sea green.
The Breguet hands with “open-tipped pomme” design sweep over the hour track adorned with discreet round gold indices, while the gold oscillating weight features a hand-guilloché barleycorn motif—another detail that embodies Breguet’s timeless elegance and artisanal mastery.
The Breguet calibre 502 exemplifies elegance and refinement with a thickness of only 2.40mm. A true technical feat, this movement is one of the thinnest in production today and is equipped with a 22K gold rotor, hand-engraved with a guilloché pattern.
Entirely crafted in-house, every stage of its creation is handled within the Manufacture, from shaping components to final assembly.
Model: Breguet Classique 7145 Lunar New Year 2025 Limited Edition, Reference 7145BR/15/9WU 06
Case
18K rose gold, 21mm lug width, 47.8mm lug-to-lug distance
40mm diameter
6.5mm thickness
Fluted caseband
Sapphire crystal caseback with single interior anti-reflective coating
Sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective coating
3 bar (30m) water resistance
Dial
18K gold, guilloché and hand-engraved, depicting the Chinese zodiac sign of the Snake
Hand-painted translucent green miniature on foliage
Rose gold 18K dots for hour markers
Breguet open-tipped hands
Movement
Caliber 502.3, numbered and signed Breguet, 12¼ lines, 162 components, 35 jewels
Automatic winding with hand-guilloché 22K gold oscillating weight
3Hz (21,600 vibrations per hour) frequency
Flat silicon balance spring and silicon anchor
Single barrel
45 hours power reserve
Indicators
Hours and minutes
Bracelet
Green alligator leather
Pin buckle in 18K rose gold
18mm width at the buckle
Edition
Limited edition of 8 pieces, numbered from 1/8 to 8/8
Watch box
Square-shaped (16.5 x 16.5 x 10.5cm) in grey-stained maple wood, with a tone-on-tone embossing of the Chinese ideogram for the Snake and the inscription “LIMITED EDITION” (also tone-on-tone) inside the alcantara-lined lid.
Price
69’000 CHF (public recommended price, all taxes included)
