The plain but ambitious name of this famous maker was dreamed up by an American, who most fortunately decided against using his own – Florentine Ariosto Jones! The new watchmaking business he set up in 1869 was located in Schaffhausen on the banks of the Rhine in German-speaking north-east Switzerland. Jones’s inspiration for such a grandiloquent name is interesting to trace, and it led indirectly to a handsome annual income for a Dr Carl Gustav Jung.

F.A. Jones (1841-1916) had worked until 1967 for the Howard Watch and Clock Co., which hd built its movement-making factory in 1857 in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Massachusetts. It was the first of its kind in Amercia. At that time watchmaking in the USA was becoming a boom industry; the pioneer of mechanized watch production was Aaron Lufkin Dennison (1812-1895), who is sometimes called ‘the Father of the American watch industry’. Dennison had moved to Switzerland in 1865, the first fully year that peace returned to the USA after the trauma of the Civil War – paradoxically just before some of the most famous early US watch manufacturing companies were created. The American Watch Co., Waltham, Massachusetts (1859-1885), which became Ameerican Waltham Co. (1885-1921), was intimately associated with A.L. Dennison; it spawned associate and successor companies, such as Tremont Watch Co., Melrose, Massachusetts (1866-1868); The National Watch Co. Chicago, Illinois (1864-1874), which became the Elgin National Watch Co., Elain, Illinois (1874-1954, and the name is still used today). The spirit of the age was one of innovation and expansion, with the three leading companies (Waltham, Howard and Elgin) together producing more than 100,000 watches in 1868.

In 1865 a simple event took place, which turned out to be crucial to the foundation of the International Watch Company. The pioneering A.L. Dennison moved to Zurich, to set up a branch of Melrose Watch Co., in order to take advantage of lower wage rates and local expertise. Dennison had previously traveled around Europe and was confident enough to emigrate with his whole family, but , despite his great experience and contacts, the firm failed in 1868. In January 1869 F.A. Jones made his decision to move to Switzerland, to take advantage of his friendship with Dennison, and accept an offer of inexpensive premises in Schaffhausen from Johann Heinrich Moster (1805-1874), a watch and clock maker, whose hydro-power statioin on the fast-flowing Fhine and the cheap power it offered for orderly mechanized watchproduction greatly appealed to him. He took with him an old watchmaking friend, Charles Kidder, with whom he had worked for three years previously. At about the same time, Jones had noticed the foundation of the Illinois Springfield Watch Co., Springfield , Illinois, and he reckoned that his plan to export watches from the old world to these fledgling companies in the new world made business sense and fully justified the market-embracing name he invented for his new company.

Unfortunately, almost from the strat, the new enterprise was not successful. IWC used brand names, such as Stuyvesant, on its watches, to find US markets, but Americans preferred own-country models; in 1864 the US government put a prohibitive 24 per cent import duty on complete watches; the initial investment in inexpenseve Swiss labor began to fail, and Jones never made the ‘break-even’ number of completer watches, in spite of A.L. Dennison’s presence in the background and all his advice. Within two years F.A. Jones urgently required fresh capital, and late in 1873 he set about promoting yet another joint stock company with new investors: the initial annual watch production was to be 10,000 units, enough to enable the company to make prodits. A new factory building was commissioned, whilst problems with the supposedly inexpenseve hydro-power to be supplied by J.H. Moser ere being slowly sorted out . The economic scene had been shaken by 1873 stock market and banks crashes in Vienna; American (his only planned market) was not taking the anticipated number of watches that Jones forecast in his financial prospectus, and the factory site and construction costs had been widly underestimated. His co-directors gradually lost confidence in his managerial abilities, and in December 1875, just before the dawn of the the age of wristwatch, the international Watch Company wat put into the hands of a receiver.

The special relationship with the watch industry in America was not, however, yet at an end. The company was bought from the receiver by a local banking consortium in order to save it from falling into foreign hands (still a fwature of business life in Switzerland today), and this group promptly appointed another American to run it: Frederic Frank Seeland, who had worked with the American Watdch Co., in Wattham, Massachusetts, and in London, re-established the factory in October 1876; but he spoke neither German nor French, and was incompetent. In August 1879 Seeland and his family suddenlyvanished from Switzerland; an immediate inverstigation into the company’s affairs discredited the modest profits of the two previous years and vevealed dramatic stock and work-in-progress overvaluations. In November 1879 bankruptcy proceedings were opened for a second time. The American connection was finally ended; Florentime Ariosto Jones’s brave dream was unfulfilled.

The second of the three chapters in the story of the International Watch Company is decisively headed “the Rauschenbach Family”, and once again J.H. Moser and the Rhine harnessed for his hydro-power play their central part. Mster ahd sold buildings and land in Schaffhausen on thee Rhine in 1872 to Johannes Rauschenbach-Vogel (1815-1881), a successful engineer, engine manufacturer, industrialist and entrepreneur; the bankers had put him on the board of the International Watch Company after the first bankruptcy, and at the seconde he was left the main creditro. It was agreed that he should acquire the entire business to try and earn dividends for the other creditors, but a year later he died. His son and successor, Johannes Rauschenbach-Schenk (1865-1905), had the misfortune to go slowly blind during his short life, and he greatly felied on the abilities of Urs Haenggi, a thoroughtly trained watchmaker and sound businessman who joined the company in 1883 and stayed with it for the rest of his life. He put the company firstly on to an even keel and on the road to successes which matched its name. One of them was the world’s first quantity production of a diagital pocket watch (Pallweber, 1884-5). Almost unbelievely, an American company once again knocked on the factory doors in Schaffhausen at the beginning of the 1890s: the Non-Magnetic Watch Compay proposed a merger. Haenggi prevented his inexperienced and unqualified chairman from agreeing to this, and, as it turened out, the American company went bankrupt a few years later, creating financial problems for three major contemporaty Swiss watch manufacturers, Aebi (in Bienne), Agassiz (St Imier) and Badollet (Geneva).

Electricity replaced pure water power in the factory in 1895, and production facilities were constantly being updated by Haenggi and a new, very talented, technician, Johann Vogel. By the turn of the century the 12.5 ligne calibers 63 and 64 existed, and the International Watch Company stood ready to supply the new market for wristwatches. During the First World War the company produced severely practical watches for ther wrists of officers who needed synchronization and luminous dials.

It is at around this time that Jung’s links with the concern began. The second daughter of Johannes Rauschenback-Schenk, who died in 1905, ahd married Ernst Jakob Homberger (1869-1955), a Schaffhausen industrialist, two years previously, and in July 1905 he was awarded sole powers of attorney to act fror members of the family; they naturally included the eldest daughter and her husband – Dr and Mrs C.G.Jung. Jung was practicing in Zurich as a psychiatrist in the years before the war, and wat doubtless very glad of the augmentation to the famlily’s income by way of dividends received. Indeed he wrote suveral times to Haenggi and Vogel saying so: ‘Gentlemen’, he wrote on February 8, 1911, ‘Permit me on behalfof my wife and myself to thanks you both for the encouraging results of the past financial year and for your competent and successful management. Yours respectively and obediently Dr C.G. Jung..’

E.J. Homberger’s eldest son Hans Ernst Homberger (1908-1986) became, by inheritance, the last private owner of the International Watch Company in 1955 when the quartz revolution arrived in the early 1970s the company was already looking to different markets with new designs (some by Ferdinand Porsche), slimming overheads, advertising in export markets, and keeping in close touch with their bankers. The struggle proved too much, however, and in 1978 he company passed into the control of the West German VDO Adolf Schindling Ltd; a large conglomerate of watch manufacturers was to be created and floated off as a separate company, but finally only Jaeger-LeCoultre became a sister company.

This chronicle of the many financial vicissitudes of the International Watch Company serves to underline the fact that there has to be profit in the maintenance of traditional ways – ‘yes, but will it seee’ has to be the refrain. And now to some wristwatches. In 188/85, the company began manufacturing, under licence from Joseph Pallweber of Salzburg, the first-ever series of pocket watches with digital time indications – hours on top, minutes below: atrue first which later reached their wristwatches. The next classic came nuch later on, in 1940: it was the Fliegerchronograph or pilot’s watch, with a large blackened dial, bold luminous sans-serif arabic numerals, hour and minute hands and a sweep second hand. The movement was protceted from the influence of magnetic fields by an inner case of ‘soft iron’; the extra long strap meant it could be strapped over a flying suit. In 1989 the International Watch Company launched the Aviator’s Chronograph, which is said to feature the world’s smallest chronograph movement for an analog display with a quick adjust device. This new versino is stainless steel as before, has a 60 second indicator, with one quarter of a second accuracy, aminute indicator up to 30 inutes and an hour indicator up to 12 hours; its 233 parts are assembled by hand.

The Ingenieur range came in 1946 with a patented movement with two automatic construction with click mechanism, limited rotor movement and an automatic winding mechanism. 1969 saw the introduction of the extremely collectable Da Vinci wristwatch, in an 18 karat yellow gold case, containing the company’s first-ever quartz movement: its characteristics are the ‘continuous’ progress of the sweep second hand and the slight but audible ‘whistling’ sound of the tuning fork watches. The Compass watch of 1978 was the first to be designed by Ferdinand Porsche, of car fame, with moonphase, baton numerals and date display; the whole can be used as a prismatic campass. A year later the Titanchronograph appeared, again designed by Porsche; titanium was used for the case and bracelet for the first time. Today the flagship model is again an automatic Da Vinci chronograph (1986; about $14,000), with perpetual calendar and moomphase: unique features are that all display corrections can be made with the winding crown, and that it will run until the year 2499 (with adjustments to be made at a watchmaker’s in the year 2100 and 2200).

“Time is the greatest innovator”, wrote the 17th-century English philosopher, francis Bacon. Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) was one of the few whose innovatory genius has had an impact on time, or more precisely its measurement. So extraordinary was the mechanical ingenuity of this Swiss-born watchmaker that he gained and maintained the patronage of royalty, the rich and the powerful throughout Europer at one of the most turbulent times in its history.
Breguet thus found himself in the uncommon position of providing watches for the ancien regime and later the power brokers of the new revolutionary France; in 1815 both Napoleon and Wellington were consulting their Breguests at Waterloo. A Breguet watch accompanied Alexander von Humboldt to the New World and was the preferred timepiece of the tsars of Russia. Indeed so legendary did these horological masterpieces become that they were immortalized in fiction. Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo sported one, as did Phileas Fogg, the intrepied and very time-conscious hero of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
The master watchmaker himself was of Freach Huguenot descent, whose family had been forced to flee Paris as a result of Catholic persecution. After Abranham-Louis’ father died in 1758, his new stepfather, Jeseph Tattet of Verriers ( a successful watchmaking business base in Neuchatel and Paris) was quick to note the young man’s talent. At the age of 15 Breguet was sent to Versailles to become a watchmaker’s apprentice.
During his five years’ apprenticeship, Breguet attended evening classes in mathematic at the College Mazarin, an essential backgrand and training for a man who was intending to distinguish himself in the production of precision instruments. Through a series of fortunate incidents, he soon came to notice of Louis XV, an auspicious beginning to a career at a time when royal paironage was important for success.
Breguet married in 1775, and his dowry permitted him to set up both  home and business in the prestigious Quai de L’Horloge on the Ile de la Cite, the heart of Paris. It is ironic that only 18 years later his first great patron, Marie Antoinette, was to spend her last days on this same quai, incarcerated in the grim 14th-century prison of the Conciergerie.
Breguet’s carefully kept registers are still preserved. Dating from 1787, each Breguet watch is recorded with the name of the individual maker, the cost price, sale date and identity of the purchaser. The name of the French queen appears frequently in the first few pages. With the characteristic extravagance that was finally to prove her undoing, she is recorded as buying her pocket watches in batches of six, a fashion which was imitated by the court. Breguet was already at the top of his profession.
It is to Breguet that we owe the first automatic watch (the perpetuelle). The principles of the self-winding watch were probably first invended and unsuccessful put into practice in 1765, but it was Breguet who undoubtedly brought the perpetuelle effectively into existense. According to extant writings of the watchmaker, Marie Antoinette and the Duc d’Orleans each possessed such watches by 1780, no doubt inscribed, along with the earliest examples, “Invente et perfectionne par Breguet a Paris”.
Breguet’s genius was to transform the basic but inefficient self-winding mechanism of A.L. Perrelet into a sophisticated machine. Two Barrels, connected to a platinum weight pivoted on an edge of the backplate, were constructed into the watch mechanism, so as to derive maximum response from every movement of the wearer. Four truns of the barrels powered the equivalent of 60 turns of the center wheel (less than two truns can run the watch for a day).
It has been estimated that a mile or so of ordinary walking will wind the perpetuelle sufficient for 60 hours’ operation. The earliest extant Breguet self-winding pocket watch dates from October 1783, though there are records for a similar model sold to Marie antoinette for 4,000 francs exactly a year previously. A special feature of these models was a fan-shaped hand and scale ranging from zero to 60 on the dial to indicate the number of hours’running time left to the user. Another trademark introduced by Breguet, and universally imitated, was the tiny circular moon on the hour and minute hands. Both appear on Breguet watches on this day.
In the meantime Breguet financed his experiments by importing complete watches and ebauches from Switzerland, which were finished to his exacting artistic and mechanical standards. These inevitable fall a little short of the extraordinary quality of those he had custom-built for his wealthy clients. The intellectual excitement of applying his invention to the subtle problems of horological engineering was the breath of life to Breguet.
The perpetuelle was being manufactured in quantity by 1786, and Breguet entered into a partnership to raise sufficient capital to finance his expansion. His association with a Xavier Gide was of six years’ duration, serving to put the business onto a firm financial footing; it marks the beginning of his records. Some of the perpetuelles produced at this period feature for the first time a new Breguet invention, Le parachute pour le balanciar: shock-proof jeweling that protected the delicate watch movement from the damaging effet of being accidentally dropped.
Many of Breguet’s pocket watches were repeaters, sounding the hours, quarters and half-quarters. More complicated versions also registered each ten minutes, five minutes or minutes with a cunning series of distinguishing blows, testimony to Breguet’s fascination with the solutioin of highly complex horological engineering problems.
By 1793 Breguet’s position as the leading Parisian watchmaker had become increasingly perilous. The majority of his aristocratic connections had either fled the Terror or, like Marie antoinette, had ended their lives at the guillotine. That August Breguet escaped to Switzerland, where he was to remain for nearly two years. This difficult time was nevertheless a highly creative one. It was there that he conceived the perpetual calendar, la montre a tact, the souscription or one-hand watch, La pendule sympathique and , most important of all, the tourbillon or rotating carriage watch. The patent is dated 1801 but needless to say there was a long period in which Breguet was perfecting his invention.
La montre a tact was, like the repeater, an invention for determining the time in the dark in the days before luminous dials. An arrow, which could be ornamented with precious stones, was set into the bezel and the time was ascertained relative to touch pieces made of diamonds, pearls or other material. Breguet’s sympathetic clock was another invention which did not survive. A specially designed watch was positioned into a table-clock with a half-moon fork and overnight both wound and set to the exact time registered by the clock. It was also during this period of exile that Breguet began to use his secret signature. The method of inscription which utilized a small pantograph was devised by his friend the medalist Jean-Pierre Droz. The result ( the name of Breguet and the watch’s individual coding with the addtion of ‘Souscription’ if of that variety) is so tiny that it can only be read with the aid of a magnifying-glass.
Breguet was not however allowed to stay away from France for long. His talents were demanded for the reorganization of the Versailles watchmaking center and the equipping of the army and navy with advanced horological instruments. Both his house and workshops were restored, and Breguet continued to produce his marvelous watches, each taking months to complete by a master-craftsman (a repeating watch could take up to twelve months; two years for a perpetuelle). About four thousand clocks and pocket watches have been manufactured between 1794-1823.
Perhaps the acme of his craft was the celebrated complex watch known as the Marie Antoinette. Ordered in 1793 by an officer of the guard of that unfortunate queen, it was requested that it should include all the complications then known, regardless of expense and time. The parts usually reserved for brass were manufactured from gold and could be seen through the rock crystal dial and backplate. It included the perpetuelle winding mechanism and indicator, a time equation, repetition for hours, quarters and minutes. Completed in 1820, this marvel of the 18th-century horologist’s art had cost a tatal of 16,484 francs and was finally kept by the master himself, a fitting tribute to his lifetime’s work. Tragically it diappeared from sight after a break-in at the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute in Jerusalem, and today its whereabouts are unknown.
The house of Breguet has contined producing watches to this day, though the business passed out of the hands of a member of the family in 1870. Exactly a centuty later it was owned for a time by the Parisian jewelers Jacques and Pierre Chaumet, who were determined to revive the flagging reputation of this once great business. Recently Breguet changed hands again.
A workshop was set up in Le Brassus in the Swiss Vallee de Joux staffed with watchmaking craftsmen of the highest caliber. Each watch is traditionally made by hand, often using the methods and tools of two centuries ago. Breguet watches were never merely finely tuned precision instruments. They also had to satisfy the artistic sensibilities of sophisticated clients, a task they still manage today, in an era when the wristwatch has all but superseded the pocket watch.
The style of the modern Breguet wristwatches echoes the pocket watches of Breguet’s best period. The dials are still engine-turned by hand. The elegant milling on the silver-plated face is distinctive as it that which also traditionally ornaments the edges of the 18 karat gold watch case. Jewels are used with taste and flair on the case, bracelet or lugs of some examples, in contrast to come of the more vulgar displays of modern watchmakers. Skeleton watches, whose visible movements are set with diamonds and rubies, are a triumph of the jeweler’s art.
The modern Breguet wristwatch – many fo them extra-flat – offers a variety of options. Indicators for the date, phases of the moon, variable second hands, perpetual calendar with leap year indication, are the basic mechanical possibilities, set off by 18 karat gold woven chain bracelets or leather straps. All bear the name Breguet and each carries its unique production number on the dial, a homage to their inspirer and a tastament to a continuing tradition of unique craftsmanship.

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Breguet watch house is interesting not only by its history that is the most considerable watch history in the world. It is also special due to one important person - a very hardworking, successful and famous Parisian watch maker Abraham Louis Breguet. An interesting fact is that his name is even used when speaking about a skillful watch maker in general.

It is not surprising that Breguet has occupied its own niche among famous and ultra fashionable watch brands (and the world of watches is not so boring as it may seem from the outside.) Also it has its own classic heredity about which many books are written.

Nowadays Breguet is considered to be the most respectful watch classics in the world. On the one hand it is a classic watch but on the other hand Breguet follows the latest trends and innovations in watch making and uses many of them in its mechanism.

There is a number of Breguet watch models that can be related to innovation timepieces. One of them is famous La Tradition created in 2005. The watch has a classic filling and very modern design. Today La Tradition created in yellow case exists in a more expensive platinum version.

The same can be said about Breguet Marina watch. In former times they were heavy and without luxury. But the new Marina models can be called ultra fashionable and very young watches.

Breguet also refreshes its classic lines Classique and Classique Grande Complications. Annually new models appear and they demonstrate not a mechanism but Breguet style.

And it is well known that Abraham Louis Breguet occupied himself not only with mechanics but style as well.

So as you can see Breguet is a very prestigious and great watch company known in any part of the world. Nowadays we are lucky to have an opportunity to touch the world of luxury timepieces buying replica Breguet  watches.

The Breguet Marine Collection is one of the most popular lines of the brand. In the end of 2006 Breguet updated its iconic collection with three distinctive models that are united by some common features, yet featuring their own peculiarities. Let’s review every model in particular!

The round-shaped case of the Marine 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph is crafted in 18-K pink gold. It measures 42 mm in diameter. The rounded horns of the case have special screw pins to secure the strap. The case-back holds a surprise for real watch-connoisseurs - it is hand-engraved on a rose engine sporting a wave pattern and covered with sapphire crystal. The timepiece is 100-meter water-resistant.

The black dial features a wave pattern. It sports an individual number and Breguet signature. The dial’s chapter ring is provided with applied Roman numerals and luminous dots. you will notice a 12-hour totalizer positioned at 6 o’clock. The small seconds are shown on the tourbillon carriage at 12 o’clock. The distinctive open-tipped Breguet 18-K pink gold hands are provided with luminous compound to offer supreme readability.

The hand-wound movement of the timepiece is individually numbered and signed Breguet. it offers the advantage of 50-hour power reserve.

The Breguet Marine 5817, the same as the above-described model, is also round-shaped, crafted in 18-K pink gold, has the case-back hand-engraved on a rose engine and rounded horns with screw pins securing the strap. The screw-locked crown of the case is provided with wave-shaped crown protections. the timepiece boasts 100-meter water-resistance.

The black dial of the watch sports pink gilt applied Roman numerals. The seconds hand is placed in the center of the dial, while the large date calendar is sported at 6 o’clock position. The open-tipped hands are also provided with applied luminous compound.

The self-winding movement of the timepiece is individually numbered and ‘Breguet’ signed. The mechanism provides 65-hour power reserve.

The Breguet Marine Chronograph 5827 has an 18-K white gold round-shaped case (42 mm in diameter) and the sapphire crystal case-back . It has the screw-locked crown. The model is provided with rounded horns with screw pins to secure the strap. The watch’s chronograph push-pieces are wave-shaped. The advantage of the timepiece is its 100-meter water-resistance.

The dial of the watch features the distinctive wave pattern. The chapter ring of the dial sports applied Arabic numerals, and Roman numerals for the minutes as well as luminous dots. You will also notice 15-minute sector. As for the chronograph minutes and seconds hands, they are found right in the dial’s center. The 12-hour totalizer and date aperture are featured at 6 o’clock. The small seconds hand is positioned at 9 o’clock.

The self-winding movement of the timepiece is individually numbered and signed Breguet. It is decorated in ‘Cotes de Geneve‘. The mechanism offers 48-hour power reserve. The same model is available in 18-K yellow gold and goes either with bracelet or leather strap.

Breguet has created its unique Tradition 7047 Tourbillon Fusee to enter the collections of most passionate watch connoisseurs. The timepiece reveals one of the rarest horological complications - the chain and fusee. The fusee transmission mechanism is responsible for improving the rate regularity. It provides the movement with a permanent torque not dependent on the tension in the mainsprings. Tradition 7047 Tourbillon Fusee is destined to become the first wristwatch with a fusee design that allows the owner of the watch admire its fascinating beauty.

The Breguet watchmakers opted for producing the tourbillon cage balance wheel and the bridge from titanium. The timepiece is considerably sized, reflecting the recent tendency for large watches, but its elegance is maintained due to perfect proportions.

The sapphire crystal is also one of the distinctive features of the Tradition 7047 Tourbillon Fusee. The sapphire crystal curves in much more dramatically than the crystal of the majority of other timepieces, so the Breguet watch boasts a really eye-catching profile. If you’ve seen the timepiece once, it’s just impossible to mistake the timepiece for any other timekeeping creation as the fusee chain peeking out from the gear train is the unique characteristic you will never miss to notice.

Breguet Tradition 7047 Tourbillon Fusee has been produced to correspond to the highest standards the watch manufacture is famous for. The timepiece is relevant to one of the highlights in the history of the brand when the first La Tradition watch was introduced. It had a great impact on the entire world of horology.

The Tourbillon Fusee has become not simply another tourbillon on the list of recently produced timepieces equipped with the remarkable complication. The timepiece will surely leave its trace in the record books, making Breguet the leader on the field of introducing the groundbreaking horological complications.

1747 • Abraham-Louis Breguet born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

1775 • Abraham-Louis Breguet Abraham-Louis Breguet opened his own workshop on the Quai de l’Horloge on the Île de la Cité in Paris (France).

1780 • Invention of the watch known as the perpetual or automatic.

1782 • Abraham-Louis Breguet produced an automatic repeater watch with quarter repeater n° 2 10/82 for Marie-Antoinette Queen of France.

1783 • Invention of the ressort-timbre for repeater watches, design of the characteristic hands and numbers in Arabic (the so-called Breguet à pommes and Breguet figures).

1784 • Abraham-Louis Breguet officially recognized as Master Watchmaker.

Notre Dame de Paris on Île de la Cité from upstream

1786 • Appearance of the BREGUET guilloche dial.

1789 • Invention of the Breguet pawl key and of natural escapement without oil.

1790 • Invention of the “Pare-Chute” shock-proofing. A Breguet squelette watch with tourbillon

A Breguet squelette watch with tourbillon

1792 • Development of the Chappe optic telegraph mechanism.

1795 • First recorded description of the “Pendule Sympathique”, a matching clock and watch that were fitted together to synchronise them when winding. The perpetual calendar, Breguet Spiral and ruby cylinder also developed.

1796 • Invention of the idea of the Souscription watch.

1798 • •Abraham-Louis Breguet also invented the musical chronometer.

1799 • Invention of the Tact Watch.

1801 • Invention of the Tourbillon Regulator.

1807 • Antoine-Louis Breguet joined the company.

1810 • Creation of the first wristwatch in history, for the Queen of Naples, Caroline Murat, (sister of the Emperor Napoleon l).

1814 • Abraham-Louis Breguet became member of the Office of Longitudes.

1815 • Abraham-Louis Breguet became Horologer to the Royal Navy, entered Academy of Sciences and was awarded Legion of Honour by King Louis XVlll in person.

1815 • Creation of the double spring drum watch.

1819 • Eyepiece for astronomical telescope.

1820 • Double second watch, or observation chronometer, ancestor of the modern chronograph.

1823 • Abraham-Louis Breguet died, his son Antoine-Louis took up the torch.

1830 • First watch without key-driven winding mechanism.

1833 • Antoine-Louis Breguet passed the house on to his son, Louis-Clément, BREGUET, NEPHEW and Co. founded.

1870 • The house taken over by factory manager Edward Brown.

1939 • Sidereal timepiece.

1970 • Brand taken over by the brothers Pierre and Jacques Chaumet, Parisian jewellers.

1976 • Opening of new Breguet workshop in Brassus (Switzerland).

1987 • Breguet passed into the hands of the INVESTORS CORPORATION.

The brand moved into the South East Asian market and consolidated lasting growth.

1990 • Pendule Sympathique Wristwatch http://www.flyingzg.com/breguet-c-13.html

1991 • Wristwatch with perpetual equation of time.

1994 • Opening of new workshop in l’Abbaye.

1997 • Wristwatch with in-line perpetual calendar.

1998 • Smallest automatic chronograph movement in the world.

1999 • Horology Group BREGUET taken over by the SWATCH GROUP/SMH.

2002 • “Queen of Naples” mechanism for lunar phases patented.

2003 • Patented locking alarm function with column wheel system and alarm index to time zones (on Tzar’s Alarm).