What makes a Breguet a popular and perfect Breguet is its dial - the combination of fine, elongated blued-steel hands with a painstakingly engine-turned dial say "Breguet" instantly to most watch fans, to the point that any other brand which adopts the two design traits stands an excellent opportunity of being dismissed for plagiarism. However, the luxury replica Breguet also offers other dial options and some of its most crowd-pleasing designs come with fired enamel dials, rather than engraved metal ones. While in London this week, we had a chance to see one uniquely attractive example of an alternative dial treatment from the fake Breguet: a R�veil du Tsar wristwatch with a fired enamel dial, which was first introduced as a boutique-only particular edition several years ago. This was a very funny, and even provocative, option for a fake watch to receive an enamel dial, as one of the major talking points of the original dial was the very complicated patterns of guilloch� engraving - it was something of a showpiece for the art as practiced in the modern era at Breguet. The R�veil du Tsar has so much to say, and the only possible knock against the original is that the dial and dial furniture are not ideally disposed from a legibility standpoint. The replica watch overall still feels to me, many years after its introduction, like something of an amazing watch; at 39mm in diameter and with a quite slim profile, it seems instantly at home on the wrist - there's no period of acclimatization needed and when you put it on you really do start to feel that maybe all the retro-grouches who grumble that any other fake watch bigger than 40mm ought to be shown the door, might be onto something. Part of what keeps the fake model grounded solidly in Breguet's design language is the presence of elements like the coin-edge case, Breguet hands, and the relative slimness and modest diameter of the watch. It seems obviously designed, in spite of its visual and mechanical complexity, and aural beauty to be a daily-wear timepiece, in the same way, that despite their cost and complexity, Breguet's grade-temps pocket watches were carried daily by his clients in the early 19th century. It almost feels a continuation of the master's work - like something he could have made in the 21st century if he were still, through some miracle, at the bench.The R�veil du Tsar 5707ER is one of the most totally enjoyable replica watches I've had on in a long time - Breguet really hit the sweet spot for a particular kind of watchmaking with this one, and it's a watch that couldn't have been made by any other suppliers. There is a lyricism in the 5707ER that seems more French than Swiss - the ability to deliver this much information this elegantly was one of the things that made Breguet so popular.