Breguet Type XX Aéronavale Archived The chronograph’s familiar “up/down” layout

The chronograph’s familiar “up/down” layout is typical of those using the column-wheel Venus 170 movement

this example comes fitted with its original heavy duty Oyster bracelet with solid end links (SEL) and has just taken a turn through our shop

" "Golden Tuna" and "Grandfather Tuna

with a tension ring to secure the dial

Breguet Type XX Aéronavale Archived The chronograph’s familiar “up/down” layoutBreguet and airplanes is not a combination that springs readily to mind, and yet the brand and aviation are inextricably linked. This connection is made manifest in the Type 20, which the manufacture produced for the aviation forces of the French military in the 1950s. But the connection goes back farther than that, to the dawn of aviation itself, in which one manthe descendant of Breguet founder Abraham Louisplayed a part. Louis Charles Breguet built