We may be in the midst of a global pandemic, but time is not standing still. Summer watch sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s are booming. A Breguet pocket watch that once belonged to England’s King ...
One of watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet’s most famous pocket watches just sold for a record-breaking price at a Christie’s sale in Geneva, Switzerland. Part of Breguet’s rare self-winding perpétuelle ...
The Ref. 7637 is also a minute repeater, a high complication that Breguet also had a hand in developing. Abraham-Louis started making repeating watches in 1783, devising something called a spring ...
Unconventionality sets the tone for Breguet’s Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon 7087. “We wanted to choose the sound and then develop the watch around the sound, and not the other way around,” says ...
It’s difficult to overstate the impact that Swiss-French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet has had upon horology. Inventor of the tourbillon, proponent of the souscription (“subscription”) model of ...
The ref. 3237 is Breguet’s elegant take on a common dual-register chronograph. Rather than looking like a tool used by race car drivers or astronauts, however, it oozes elegance. Housed in a 36 mm ...
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Swiss-French watchmaker to European royalty and perhaps the greatest horologist of all time — began work on what would become ...
In 1783, one of Marie Antoinette’s guards and secret admirers devised a way to make her fall in love with him. He had no doubt noticed the queen’s obsession with Abraham-Louis Breguet’s watches, of ...
Luxury watch brand Breguet took the wraps off a remodeled Beverly Hills boutique in high style Thursday night, rolling a swath of blue carpet across Via Rodeo (a nod to the signature color of the ...
WHEN SHE WAS A PRISONER IN THE TOUR DU TEMPLE, with her husband Louis XVI, king of France from 1774 to 1792, Marie Antoinette expressed the desire to have an object that marked the hours passing. She ...
Breguet, the illustrious Swiss watchmaker, can cast a spell over you. I know this is so. Back in 1999, a friend of mine from the online watch community read an in-flight magazine article on ...
To celebrate the 10 th anniversary of its emblematic Tradition collection this year, Breguet unveiled the Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077, the Tradition Répétition Minutes Tourbillon 7087 and ...