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Abraham Louis Breguet was born on January 10 of 1747 Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Son of Louis and Susanne Jonas Margarita Bolle.
At age 15 he moved to Paris, a watchmaking who had his stepfather Jose Tattet, during his apprenticeship Breguet continued to evening classes where he studied mathematics, drawing the attention of the preceptor of the Count of Artois, announced that his talents to the Court.
Chappé assisted in the construction and upgrading of its system of telegraphy, which allowed him to learn first-hand the French system.
Claude Chappé Brulon, Paris France, French inventor who demonstrated the viability of optical communications (the telegraph optical) through traffic lights in France, becoming the first telecommunications system practicable.
During that time acquired the theoretical and practical training extremely careful before founding his own company shortly after her marriage in 1775, with Cécile L’huilli Marie-Louise, daughter of a family of the Parisian bourgeoisie, her dowry funded the opening of that company in the dock Clock Paris.
Breguet is not a traditional business using apprentices, but that counted with the collaboration of the best specialists in Paris, who used to build their own designs.
Between 1775 and 1787, Breguet traveled to London and established there a significant center for the manufacture of clocks and timers. It was the home of an unparalleled career marked by great virtuosity the gift of artistic, scientific and technical innovation.
Lord George Murray, English clergyman and inventor, is known for adaptation that made the Swedish system of optical communication for the development of optical telegraph lines in England.
During that time, namely in 1780, develops and markets the “Perpétuelle,” the invention of the set pieces to sound the clock (Sonería), which reduced the width of watches repeater considerably, also developed the first anti device or “Stop -chute, “which he watches more secure, its neoclassical style was surprisingly economically.
Breguet designed a new type of hands-known as to what Pomme, and then only as of hands “Breguet” for the first time, clocks were fine.
Breguet posted their movements in boxes of gold and silver, with leather straps of Morocco, provided spare parts, and was perhaps the first watchmaker to meet with forgeries of his work.
To combat this problem, Breguet and the famous engraver Jean Pierre Droz, innovated the “Signature Confidential” on the field, recording an incredibly small, the signature could be read only through a light source and using a magnifying glass.
To ensure authenticity more accurate, everyone watches that left the factory had a serial number which was recorded in books to verify their authenticity, these books are still today as part of the Breguet and archives are available and see date of sale, the original price and the initial purchaser of watches.
Despite that their works had contributed greatly to the progress of the watch industry in 1793, Breguet fleeing revolutionary France by political problems, taking refuge in Neuchatel.
Many clocks of that time period and which were signed “Fils of Breguet” were developed by other watchmakers, therefore, many consider that the only Breguets, the watches are sold before the exile of Breguet.
In 1795 returned to Paris in the middle of economic crisis, offering a wealth of inventions and new creations to his contemporaries.
The spiral of Breguet, the constant leak of force, the first modern travel penduleta sold to Bonaparte, the clock of touch, the clock “SUBSCRIPTION,” the clock “Sympathique,” the clock “Touch” that makes it possible to read the time by touch, he was constantly chasing her aesthetic research, he created elegant and refined models.
Breguet was put in command of the Center Horloge de Versailles that had just been reopened. His work enabled him to acquire a great reputation across Europe. Protected by Louis XVIII, was appointed in 1815, “Horloge de la Marine”
On a commercial level, Breguet was known and appreciated by all courts of Europe, being the watchmaker of reference for elites diplomatic, scientific, military and financial. His personal contacts with foreign sovereigns did much to publicize its international reputation. He models specially commissioned for eminent personalities like the Czar of Russia, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the Prince Regent of England and Queen of Naples, Caroline Murat, who modeled for a world premiere a wristwatch very flat, with repetition and thermometer .
After a period of restrictions promoted by the warmongering policy of Bonaparte which hampered its exports, the company Breguet experienced a new boom business after the fall of the Napoleonic empire. was very prosperous. Surrounded by his family and by the best watchmakers of the time, he continued his creative work, with achievements as well known as those of marine chronometers, chronographs accountants or even military and astronomical capable of marking tenths and hundredths of a second. He was vocal and watchmaker in the body of the French navy of the United Kingdom. Also entered in the Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Legion of Honor by King Louis XVIII.
The last part of the life of Abraham Louis Breguet
After his death in 1823, at the age of 77 years, the influence of Abraham Louis Breguet lasted throughout the world. All were unanimous in paying tribute to the revolution that had all facets of the art and science of the watch industry.
Currently, the house retains its Breguet tradition and is in possession of a unique heritage of files that are a constant source of inspiration for their contemporary models, models that closely follow the spirit of Abraham Louis Breguet.
His work was perpetuated particularly inside the house Breguet and brought the prestigious route that had opened under the leadership of his son and grandson.
Clément Louis Breguet, combines his career as a doctor with his passion as a watchmaker, was passionately interested in electrical applications. After developing the first electric clocks and patent watch pitch, left the watch industry in 1870 to devote himself to electric telegraph and the nascent field of telecommunications.
Antoine Breguet, contributes strongly to consolidate the first steps of the nascent electrical engineering, Antoine will live only thirty-one years which will suffice to match its importance to the work of his father and great-grandfather. It was the first in his family to make higher education doctorate from the Polytechnic to 23 years, desaarrolla their innovations in the family home. Among the innovations of this time, you can count: the machinery of Gram, Gram with the Treaty was signed in 1875, equipment and laboratory experiments: electromagnets, induction coil, condensers. It was also the inventor of an anemometer registrar MU for electricity (1875) and a telephone to mercury.
The signing was changed to Edward Brown and his family, who for years administered the workshop. Honored by a prestigious clientele, weathered the crisis very important part of the twentieth century.
The saga begins Breguet in 1970, five years before its 200th anniversary, when the company was bought by the Parisian jewelers Jacques and Pierre Chaumet, restoring the prestige and exclusivity associated with Breguet watches.
Today as yesterday, watchmakers talented continue to perpetuate the tradition and spirit of Breguet works by creating increasingly ambitious and offering a rich collection of models framed in lines as representative as: “Classiques,” “Marine”, chronographs Type XX, pieces Special commemorative watches and 250 Anniversary.
One of the best-known works of the brand is the Pendulum Sympathique, designed by Abraham Louis Breguet himself and adapted today as the wristwatch. As representative as exceptional are the Perpétuelles pocket, an unusual highly valued by collectors.
Modern Breguet watches, were developed by hand by the most talented Swiss watchmakers have areas of fine silver, engraved by hand, finely finished boxes Breguet but also provides models such as sports and informal lines of “Transatlantique” and “Marine” , Many of which have a value of more than five figures.
In sum, while a Breguet can not be in the range of prices, buyers with financial means to acquire one of these mechanical masterpieces should not hesitate, history, romance and exclusivity of the brand ensures that it will be a good investment.
For over two centuries, the literary references in Breguet had a part of European culture, his name inevitably jumps when it is associated with the aristocracy and bourgeoisie.
Which biggest test of his reputation that an allusion to Breguet in the Comédie Humaine by Balzac, or works next to Alexandre Dumas, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Pushkin, Mérimée Siraudin or the Russians Karamzin and Kuprin, there were even exercise books that bore the effigy of Breguet.
Abraham Louis Breguet, without a doubt was the Eratótenes of Cyrene, in the high art of watchmaking.
Perhaps the invention that Breguet is the most famous is the Tourbillon patented in 1801, even today the Tourbillon can only be developed by the most experienced watchmakers, therefore, developed a “clock within a clock”, this eliminated the majority of the deviations caused by differences in position and allowed many clocks to achieve the accuracy of timing.
