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The pioneer of luxury watchmaking, Breguet has been there for more than 250 years now. The producer of the first wristwatch in 1810, the brand has filed and received many patents and has been granted over a hundred of patents. Currently owned by the swatch group, Breguet was brilliantly founded by Abraham Louis-Breguet in 1775. Had it not been for the dowry which came with his marriage to the daughter of a prosperous french bourgeois, the former wouldn’t have been able to own a workshop and hence, develop the brand.
The tourbillon inventor, Abraham Louis-Breguet has made several watches for Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. In 1783 the Swedish count, Axel Von Fersen, queen’s friend and alleged lover, commissioned a watch from Breguet that was to contain every watch complication known at that time as a gift to Marie Antoinette. The Marie Antoinette No. 160 is nothing but Breguet’s masterpiece.
The business was last run by the family’s fourth generation till 1882 after which British Watchmaker, Edward Brown of Clerkenwell took over the management. Later, the company was acquired by the Swatch group in 1999 and is held to be one of the prized possessions of the group.
Be it the Breguet Transatlantique Type or The Breguet Classique Chronometrie 7727 ( which, by the way, has 6 patents alone ), the brand never ceases to amaze the watch lovers with its avant-garde technology and proves that it is a legendary watchmaking company, only dealing in Haute Horlogerie, which is brimming with great historical and cultural heritage.
a From self-winding watches to one of its kind, perpetual calendar mechanism, the brand has been the reigning king of horological innovations. It would be safe to say that Breguet is a watchful refinement which continues to evolve the watchmaking industry like it always has.
