Breguet Tradition Seconde Rétrograde 7037, 7038, 7097, and GMT 7067: Four New References Extend a Collection That Began in 2005

When Breguet introduced the Tradition collection in 2005, the premise was straightforward: invert the movement so that its architecture faces the wearer rather than the watchmaker. The bridges, mainplate, barrel, and gear train, elements that conventional watchmaking keeps out of sight beneath the dial, became the visual substance of the watch. An off-center time display at 12 o'clock sat within that mechanical landscape rather than over it. For a house founded in 1775, this model represents a significant departure, and in the two decades since, it has become one of Breguet's most consistently developed references. Four new models arrive in 2026, each carrying a material or detail that has not appeared in the collection before.

Among them, the Seconde Rétrograde 7037 is the most visually immediate. A 38mm watch available in white gold or platinum, it carries a retrograde seconds display at 10 o'clock, where a pointer travels an arc and snaps back at the end of each sixty-second cycle. For the first time in the collection, the entire movement is finished in blue, with a shot-blasted main plate, satin-brushed bridges, and a barrel cover hand-guillochéd in a snailed pattern, all hand-finished. Against this backdrop, the Grand Feu enamel dial at 12 o'clock is white, with Breguet Arabic numerals replacing the Roman indices of earlier references. The platinum version reverses the logic entirely, with a black PVD-coated movement and a black Grand Feu enamel dial. Both run on the calibre 505 SR automatic with a 50-hour power reserve, and both reveal through the caseback a half-moon oscillating weight referencing the self-winding rotor Abraham-Louis Breguet developed in the late eighteenth century.

Built on the same 505 SR calibre but occupying a different register within the collection, the 7038 is the most jewel-forward of the four new references. The case is 18-karat rhodium-plated white gold, with a bezel set with 58 brilliant-cut diamonds and a crown set with a watch jewel. Black aventurine glass makes its first appearance as a dial material in the Tradition lineup here, with silver-toned powdered transfers creating a depth that shifts with the light. A sunburst guilloché pattern on the barrel cover references the dial work introduced by Abraham-Louis Breguet in the early nineteenth century, and the caseback continues that dialogue with an oscillating weight finished in the same pattern.

At 40mm in rose gold, the 7097 shares the retrograde seconds architecture of the 7037 but reads more classically. A white Grand Feu enamel dial pairs with a charcoal grey barrel cover and rose-gilt gear train, a warmer combination than the blue or black treatments of its sibling reference.

Of the four, the GMT 7067 is the only manually wound model, which explains why its 40mm platinum case measures just 12.10mm in thickness despite the added complication. Local time sits at the off-center 12 o'clock position behind a Grand Feu enamel dial in a green gradient, moving from pine green at the center to black at the outer rim. This color treatment debuts in the collection and is technically among the most demanding in Grand Feu enamel work, requiring precise control over pigment ratio, gradient distribution, and firing temperature. Home time is indicated on a subdial at 8 o'clock, with a day/night indicator at 10 o'clock and a dedicated crown for adjusting the second zone independently. A variant of the 7067 carries Indo-Arabic numerals on the home time subdial, referencing the Ottoman watches Abraham-Louis Breguet customized for clients in the Eastern market in the early 1800s.

All four references are fitted with a stitched leather-textured rubber strap, one of the first times this material has featured across the Tradition lineup.

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