Breguet Classique 'Tiffany & Co.'

Breguet makes the best dials in the biz. Yeah, we said it. Their signature engine-turned dials, individually numbered and hand-finished, are simply beautiful works of art. Executed here in their core line, the Classique, and housed in their mid-size 34mm 18k yellow gold case, this manual-winding Reference 3500 dress piece offers everything you'd want in an iconic Breguet timepiece in a size appropriate for both men and women. Featuring a coin-edge case design, a polished bezel, and a 18K yellow gold winding crown with a sapphire cabochon, it has a satin silver clous de Paris dial with painted ‘Roman’ indices, a matching, black Breguet handset, an outer minute track, and — best of all — a Tiffany & Co. signature above 6:00, evidence that the watch was retailed at America’s most famous jeweler during the early 1980s. Powered by an automatic movement from Breguet and paired to one of our Analog:Shift brown alligator-pattern leather straps with a gold plated pin buckle, it comes with some fascinating ephemera, including email correspondence with the Breguet company confirming its production and sale. There’s simply no question that these mid-size Classique models constitute some of the best dress watches of the past 40 years — models that compete reference-for-reference with mainstays such as the Patek Philippe Calatrava.  And let’s be real: Where else can you find a Tiffany-signed, solid-gold dress watch from a high-caliber manufacture at a price like this?