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Ever since its inception in 1775, Breguet has unfailingly harboured, and honored, essential values so prized by A.-L. Breguet, such as beauty, elegance and understated design along with mastery of horology at it’s most complex, that of Grande Complications timepieces-not least the Tourbillon. In contrast to various watch houses that lay claim to some given chain of historical events or attempt to rediscover their own past, Breguet more than ever embodies the art and culture of Europe. The company indubitably possesses the finest historical treasures imaginable and surely the most illustrious corporate history that any watch make could possibly wish for. If Breguet holds a special place in our cultural heritage, it is because its founder, A.-L. Breguet (1747-1823), set the standard by which all fine watch making has been judged. Today, his heirs at Breguet still make each watch as a model of supreme horological art. A.-L. Breguet was born in Neuchatel, but it was in Paris that he spent most of his productive life. No aspect of watch making escaped his study, and his inventions were as decisive to horology as they were varied. His career started with a series of breakthroughs: the development of the successful self-winding perpettelle watches, the introduction of gongs for repeating watches and the first shock-protection for balance pivots. Breguet’s power of invention completely changed the nature of watch making. The Tourbillon was undoubtedly a measure of his genius. The founder received a patent from France’s ministry of the interior for his new regulating device on June 26, 1801. Since the late 18th century, Breguet has filled its register of owners with names that will live forever. Putting your name against the watch we make for you is a custom started by our founder, A.-L. Breguet. It was his way of paying tribute to those who valued his work. Today we keep up that tradition for exactly the same reasons…If you own a Breguet; you can register your name with Churchill’s, Napoleon’s or Marie-Antoinette’s… A.-L. Breguet never made two watches exactly alike, and there is no reason for the firm that he founded to break from that tradition. Besides, collectors of Breguet watches would never allow it.
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