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Abraham-Louis Breguet. Abraham-Louis Breguet (10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry. He was the founder of the Breguet company, which is now the luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group .
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The founder. If Breguet holds a special place in our cultural heritage, it is because its founder, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), set the standard by which all fine watchmaking has since been judged. Today, his heirs at Breguet still make each watch as a model of supreme horological art. Abraham-Louis Breguet was born in Neuchâtel, but it ...
Abraham-Louis Breguet (born Jan. 10, 1747, Neuchatel, Switz.—died Sept. 17, 1823, Paris) was the leading French watchmaker of his time, known for the profusion of his inventions and the impeccable style of his designs. Breguet was apprenticed in 1762 to a watchmaker at Versailles. He took refuge in Switzerland during the French Revolution and ...
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On June 26, 1801, or rather on 7 Messidor, year IX, since the Republican calendar was still in force in France, Abraham-Louis Breguet earned the rights for a patent which would last for a ten year period for a new type of regulator called the “Tourbillon”. Abraham-Louis Breguet based his work on the observation that gravity is the enemy of ...
Aug 24, 2023 · Abraham-Louis Breguet and Joseph Tattet. History turns on the smallest of pivots. Had Jonas-Louis Breguet lived beyond the age of 39, his son, Abraham-Louis, would probably have had a happy and utterly unremarkable life running an inn in Les Verrières. He might have even bought one of those new-fangled watch things with some of the profits.
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Forced to flee France for Switzerland during the dark hours of the French Revolution, Abraham-Louis Breguet returned to Paris in 1792, bringing with him ideas for new inventions such as the Breguet balance spring, the first travelling clock (which he sold to Napoleon Bonaparte) the sympathique clock, the à tact watch and the tourbillon, which he patented in 1801.
Abraham-Louis Breguet. The Tourbillon sprang from the brilliant mind of a man who had already carved out a successful career for himself. Abraham-Louis Breguet, born in 1747 in Neuchâtel in Switzerland, was apprenticed to a watchmaker, and at the age of 15, he traveled to France to continue his apprenticeship in Versailles and Paris.
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