The tours centered on five new Breguet clocks at various points inside the music hall.
He admitted owning a Breguet watch, but said he kept it in its box.
The distinctive numeral typeface is named after its originator, legendary 18th-century French horologist Abraham-Louis Breguet .
The term sympathique was chosen by Breguet to express the notion of harmony and concord.
The first is the definitive study of Breguet, elucidating how he produced such magnificent watches.
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Hence the interest that will likely be generated by a stainless-steel Patek Philippe chronograph with Breguet numbers.
According to Breguet expert George Daniels , it is the only piece of its kind known to exist.
This invention turned out to be difficult for Breguet to produce and implement.
It would control 18 leading brands, including Blancpain, Breguet, Longines, Omega and Rado.
Journe's timepieces often honor the men who employed those tools like 18th-century founding fathers Abraham Louis Breguet and Antide Janvier.
The reception and tours that unveiled the remaining timepieces on February 7 were hosted by Michael Nelson, Breguet U.S. brand manager.
Through its Breguet, Longines, Blancpain, Omega and other brands, Swatch has about 15% of the market for expensive watches, trailing only Rolex and lvmh.
Other details: A balance spring with Breguet overcoil, the mobile stud holder.
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Breguet installed four Classique clocks and one Reine de Naples clock.
Breguet: Watchmaker, Aviator, Innovator showcases 26 Breguet watches, including 10 vintage timepieces on display for the first time in the United States.
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Just as Abraham-Louis Breguet was a founding father of mechanical watchmaking, his great-great grandson, Louis-Charles Breguet, achieved similar fame in the aviation field.
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Swiss luxury watch brand, Breguet, is celebrating the invention of the tourbillion through a didactic and interactive exhibition titled, Breguet, the innovator.
Thirty-three people named books by Daniels (in second place, Dava Sobel, with 13 mentions), especially "The Art of Breguet" (1975) and "Watchmaking" (1981).
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Patented in 1801 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the tourbillon was designed to counteract the effects of gravity by isolating parts inside a revolving cage.
Launched in 2002, this collection is a tribute to the first wristwatch, ordered by the queen from Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1810 and delivered in 1812.
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Last year Swatch bought watchmaker Breguet, which was founded in 1775.
Jaeger-LeCoultre takes the second spot with 12.7 percent, closely followed by Vacheron Constantin at 12.6 percent, Audemars Piguet at 9.2 percent and Breguet at 7.7 percent.
Breguet has commemorated this heritage with an exhibition of aviation timepieces unveiled June 14 on the decks of the Intrepid aircraft carrier in New York City.
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In February this year a photo of Patriarch Kirill meeting President Vladimir Putin - who was prime minister at the time - showed Kirill wearing the Breguet watch.
The Reine de Naples collection pay tribute to the Queen of Naples, Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom the first wristwatch was invented by Breguet in 1812.
Talking to dealers of old watches, he heard about the tourbillon--a rotating mechanism created by Breguet in 1795 to compensate for the effects of gravity on hanging pocket watches.
Along with the usual technical imperatives involved in designing an oval movement, this timepiece incorporates the results of fundamental research by Breguet into the acoustics of chiming and repeating watches.
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The auction's highlight: a silver compteur militaire, made by famed French watchmaker Breguet in 1822, that belonged to Alexander I , emperor of Russia, and later, his nephew Constantine Nicholaievich .
The Breguet Foundation recently commemorated the 250th anniversary of his birth by awarding a prize to Carole Forestier, a Frenchwoman, who designed a wristwatch with a movement entirely encircled by the mainspring.
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