The Type XX (Type 20) from high-end watchmaker Breguet is an iconic collection for the House, which is celebrating exactly 70 years this year. The Type Series boasts the identity of a pilot’s watch born in the unique historical background of the Breguet family, which encompasses both the fields of aviation and watchmaking. Two new models armed with completely new calibres are about to be released this year after more than four years of preparation. Regarding the new Breguet Type XX, on June 6, a grand global launch event was held at the Petit Palais in Paris, France. Let’s meet Breguet’s ambitious new generation of Type XX from now on.
You can check out the Breguet Type 11 dashboard chronograph made in the mid-1950s. The symbolic design code emphasizing readability was continued in the form of a wristwatch.

Before introducing the product in earnest, it is necessary to look at the background of the birth of the Type XX. Louis Charles Breguet (1880-1955), the 5th generation descendant of the great founder of the House, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), was fascinated by the field of aviation early on and founded the Louis Breguet Aviation Workshop in 1911. aviation workshops) and designed various aircraft, including the predecessor of the helicopter, Gyroplanes, and earned a reputation as a pioneer in this field. After the death of Louis Breguet, Marcel Dassault bought the company and merged the two companies under the name Avions Marcel Dassault Breguet in 1971, which was later renamed Dassault Aviation in the 1990s. , boasted a bold presence.

A major milestone at the time was the provision of a Type 12-like aircraft clock for the Concorde, a supersonic airliner in the 1970s. Part of the press event commemorating the launch of the New Type XX can be held at the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace du Bourget, operated by the French Ministry of Defense at Le Bourget Airport in Paris. It was possible because of the special relationship between the Breguet family, including Louis Breguet, and French aviation.
Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Type XX this year, the newly introduced 4th generation Type XX is a military Type XX delivered to the French Air Force and Naval Aviation Corps in the 1950s, and a civilian Type XX marketed for general customers based on it. It also contains the meaning of inheriting the tradition of manufacturing unique pilot watches.
It was Breguet’s first military pilot’s replica watches, delivered to the French Air Force between 1955 and 1959, and was equipped with a Valjoux 222 hand-operated chronograph caliber with non-graded bidirectional rotating bezel and flyback function.

In the early 1950s, the French Air Ministry was looking for a chronograph wristwatch for its pilot officers, and the prototype Breguet made in 1952 boasted a military presence among several brands. And the following year, in 1953, the French Aviation Technical Service (Service technique de l’aéronautique, STAé) was approved and the delivery officially began. According to Breguet’s official archive records, there are a total of 1,100 pieces of the first-generation Type 20 military model (Ref. 7211) produced between 1955 and 1959. For reference, the type was initially marked with Arabic numerals (Type 20) rather than the current Roman numerals (Type XX).