110,000 EUR
Breguet, The Marine 5817PR, No. 1. Notes The Breguet firm was founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823),one of the most celebrated horologists of all time. Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to a Protestant family, Abraham-Louis was eleven when his father died, and his mother remarried. Her second husband, Joseph Tattet, came from a watchmaking family, and the young man was subsequently apprenticed to a watchmaker in Versailles. While it is not certain whether or not Breguet worked for Ferdinand Berthoud or Jean-Antoine Lépine, it is certain that his studies in mathematics at the Collège Mazarin under the Abbé Marie were to have a decisive influence on his later career. Abbé Marie, who was also tutor to the children of the Comte d’Artois, was responsible for Breguet’s being introduced into influential circles. The aristocratic families that of the French court were to become some of Breguet’s most important clients and help him become established as a watchmaker. During the French Revolution Breguet went into exile in Switzerland. When he returned to France afterward, he was to create some of the most exceptional realisations of his career. Breguet’s technical, esthetic, and practical innovations, as well as his adaptation and improvement of many horological ideas made his work immensely influential in the world of horology. In September 1999, the Breguet firm was integrated into the Swatch Group under the direction of Nicolas G. Hayek, Président Directeur Général of Br
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-09-22
