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ABRAHAM-LOUIS  BREGUET,   (1747-1823).

Abraham-Louis Breguet (–) was a designer, inventor, and watchmaker.

Abraham-Louis Breguet (–) was a designer, inventor, and watchmaker.

Abraham-Louis Breguet was born in in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Abraham-Louis Breguet left his native Neuchâtel in his teens to complete his apprenticeship as a watchmaker in Versailles and Paris.

Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet.

In his lifetime he was considered the leading watchmaker of his day, and he built up a clientele that included many leading public figures and.

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France's most eminent horologist, Abraham-Louis Breguet revolutionised the design, techniques and image of watch and clockmaking. His work was luxurious, expensive and of superlative quality. He was appointed watchmaker to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and later to Napoleon.

He was also patronised by the Tzars of Russia, the English royal family, the Queen of Naples and of Spain and the high aristocracy.

Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in , Breguet achieved his greatest success in Paris, where he made watches for the French aristocracy and.

Breguet time pieces can be found worldwide, including London's Biritish Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Guildhall and Buckingham Palace and in Paris at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers.

 

Breguet was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

In 1762 he travelled to Paris, serving an apprenticeship to a watchmaker in Versailles; he may also have worked for F. Berthoud (1727-1807) or for J. A. Lepine (1720-1814). Breguet studied mathematics t the College Mazarin under Abbe Marie who introduced him