BY HARLAN CHAPMAN-GREEN
Following Breguet’s meteoric performance in 2025, where it marked 250 years of innovation and history, the brand has now released a set of revitalised Tradition models to keep last year’s momentum going. The Tradition range of watches takes its designs from the work of Abraham-Louis Breguet himself, the dial layout with the escapement on one side and wheels on the other, with the time at 12 O’clock draws its appearance from Breguet’s pocket watches made at the very end of the 18th century. Since its 2005 debut, the Tradition range has long stood as both a reference to Breguet’s past and a look to its future, applying the Tradition’s design language to different complications.
For 2026, Breguet has focused on revitalising the simpler watches in the Tradition range. I’ve broken them down below.
Tradition Seconde Rétrograde 7037BB/YB/5V6 & 7037PT/N9/5V6
We kick off this list with the new Tradition 7037 models, 7037BB and 7037PT. The first, 7037BB, sports a classy appearance, with its 38mm x 12.7mm case crafted from 18k white gold with a rich blue colour that spans the dial, the movement plates, and the rubber strap. Talk about coherent. Tradition 7037PT also follows this design but replaces the modern, vibrant blue with a more subtle black, and the 18k white gold is replaced with platinum. I love the grande feuenamel used on the time dials, especially where it contrasts with the hand-applied guilloché of the mainspring barrel below. Both watches feature the calibre 505 SR, which includes a silicon balance spring, a 3Hz beat rate and a 50-hour power reserve. Tradition 7037BB costs CHF45,200, and 7037PT costs CHF49,700.
Tradition Second Rétrograde 7038BB/N9/7V6 D0
The Tradition 7038 is a slightly smaller version of the above pieces with a diamond-set case. Breguet no longer says on its website that watches like this are specifically aimed at women, given the increasing number of celebrities who present as male wearing them. That said, the press photos include a woman, so we can speculate at where they were thinking with the Tradition 7038. The elegant 18k white gold case measures 37mm x 11.6mm and features 58 brilliant-cut diamonds, with a further 25 set on the 18k white gold clasp, which secures the watch to a textile strap. The time dial on this piece doesn’t use enamel; rather, it uses aventurine glass, which adds a bit more sparkle and shine to this diamond-set piece. The calibre 505 SR, as featured above, is also used in the Tradition 7038 and features black plates on the front to match its strap. The price of one of these is CHF50,600.
Tradition Seconde Rétrograde 7097BR/GB/3WU
Presented in 18k rose gold, this Tradition 7097 brings with it a sandy grey colour on its leather strap and across its plates as well, although the time dial at 12 O’clock features grande feu enamel as a base for its blued ‘Breguet’ style hands. The retrograde seconds are set to the left of the time dial and flick back to zero at the end of each minute, adding some extra drama. Inside the 40mm x 11.8mm case is the calibre 505 SR1, a self-winding movement with a rotor designed to look like the weight used in Abraham-Louis Breguet’s ‘perpétuelle’ pocket watches, as is seen on the references 7037BB and 7037PT above. It has a 3Hz beat rate and a 50-hour power reserve. The price is CHF43,200.
Tradition GMT 7067PT/NM/5W6 & 7067PT/NM/5W601
The last two watches we’re looking at today are the new additions to the Tradition GMT line, the Tradition 7067. There isn’t an enormous difference between the two models; they both feature the same platinum case measuring 40mm x 12.1mm, and the same calibre 507DRF, which I’ll come to in a moment. The main difference between the reference 7067PT/NM/5W6 and 7067PT/NM/5W601 is that reference 7067PT/NM/5W601 features a green-coloured strap and Eastern Arabic numerals on its home time dial, displayed below and to the left of the local time dial at 12 O’clock. Green is often associated with prosperity and purity in Islamic culture, so it makes sense that the strap is green here, though Breguet doesn’t explicitly state this as the reason on its website. The home time dial’s minutes hand is linked to the local time’s minutes hand and moves when the crown is used; setting the home time also sets the day/night indicator above it. The pusher at 11 O’clock advances the local time zone’s hour hand by an hour at a time, allowing the watch to display two time zones simultaneously. This is possible thanks to the manually wound calibre 507DRF, which features a silicon balance spring with a Breguet overcoil, a 3Hz beat rate, and a 50-hour power reserve, with a power-reserve indicator visible through the watch’s caseback. This isn’t a brand new calibre, but with the new dark grey coating over the movement and the grande feu enamel with a green gradient, it does look brand new. It’s a testament to good design that they didn’t have to change much to make it look fresh again. The price of one of these is CHF62,800.
All of these watches showcase Breguet’s ability to reinvent itself in the best possible way, combining its illustrious heritage with the design trends of the present. Bringing their centuries-old looks to life in their watches is partly why I love them so much, because they can make it work where so many other makers either cut corners or modernise their design too much. I wish that they’d turn their attention to the Marine collection now, because that needs it more than anything else, I feel
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