How do you reinvent a 225-year-old invention? | Interview with Breguet CEO Gregory Kissling
Breguet's CEO, Gregory Kissling, reveals the thinking behind four distinctive tourbillons, from reworked historical mechanics and fresh guilloché to a night sky transformed into a wearable memory.
At Breguet, history is not so much a burden as a mechanism to be kept in motion. For the 225th anniversary of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s tourbillon, the maison has unveiled four markedly different interpretations of watchmaking’s most celebrated invention. In this conversation, Chief Executive Gregory Kissling explains why one commemorative piece would have been “too easy”, how the Classique Tourbillon 7357 reworks a historically important calibre without erasing its character, and why a new guilloch motif can be as faithful to Breguet as an archival design. The engineer-turned-CEO also reflects on knowing when complexity stops serving a watch; the romance of wearing a remembered sky, and why the maison is prepared to wait before opening a boutique in India.