BREGUET

Breguet is a French fine watch-making establishment, founded by Abraham Louis Breguet in 1775. Among its clients, Queen Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Talleyrand, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caroline Murat, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill and Arthur Rubinstein who put their confidence in the taste and artistry of Breguet.

Currently part of The Swatch Group, it is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and is the pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, the most famous being the Tourbillon, invented by Abraham Louis Breguet. A Tourbillon movement was designed to counter the effects of gravity and other perturbing forces that can affect the accuracy of a chronometer. The effects of gravity were particularly problematic when pocket watches were carried in the same pocketed position for most of the day. The Tourbillon is considered to be one of the most challenging of watch mechanisms to make and is valued for its engineering and design principles. Modern implementations typically allow the Tourbillon to be seen through a window in the watch face.

Breguet watch

Developed in 1954 by Breguet for the French Air Navy, the mythical Type XX earned a strong reputation of reliable and resistant timekeeper in its military versions. In its latest civilian versions, the model Type XX became a symbol of sports elegance as a high performing chronometer watch. For its fiftieth anniversary, the house Breguet created the modern Type XXI watch in 2005. This new Breguet chronograph is distinguished by its fly-back function enabling the chronograph to be reset by simply pressing the push-piece, and a centre minute counter. The black rhodium dial with the brand signature features luminescent hands and hour-markers, a day/night indicator at 3 o’clock, 12-hour counter, date window at 6 o’clock and small seconds at 9 o’clock. The self-winding numbered movement is also signed.

Montres Breguet SA

Breguet watches

1334 L'Abbaye

Switzerland

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