Breguet Serpentine Triple Calendar Moonphase holidaypricing the Alvin and the Aluminaut

the Alvin and the Aluminaut

and is absolutely one of our favorite expressions of 1950s chronographs

This particular dress watch from storied Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet is one such example

the registers of these later Super Sub Sea chronodivers are farther apart and lack the distinctive squiggly sub-dial hands of the earlier versions

This 1978 example

Breguet Serpentine Triple Calendar Moonphase holidaypricing the Alvin and the AluminautBreguet 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. Youd be hard pressed to find such fine attention to detail in a watch costing many times what, say, a time only or time and date model from the brands Classique line trades for. Take this particular Classique, a Reference 3040, dates to circa the 1990s and features triple calendar