Few inventions can claim to have reshaped an entire industry. Fewer still continue to define it more than two centuries later. Yet that is precisely the legacy of the tourbillon.

When Abraham-Louis Breguet patented his rotating regulator on 26 June 1801, he wasn't trying to create a symbol of haute horlogerie. He was solving a problem. Pocket watches spent much of their lives upright, allowing gravity to influence their accuracy. Rather than attempting to defeat Newton's laws, Breguet devised a mechanism that continuously rotated the regulating organ, averaging out gravity's effects and bringing new levels of precision to mechanical timekeeping.

Today, virtually every major watchmaker produces tourbillon watches. But only one house can trace the complication directly to its origin. As it marks 225 years since that defining patent, Breguet presents creations that celebrate not simply an invention, but an ongoing philosophy of innovation. That story begins with the new Classique Tourbillon 7357, arguably the clearest expression of Breguet's heritage.