Breguet began setting the very best luxury standards that entered into the world of fine watchmaking to follow, in 1775. Even today, "Breguet" treats each model of luxury watch made as a piece of supreme lifestyle art. Breguet spent the majority of his life in Paris, France where he studied all aspects of watchmaking. Breguet's inventions were varied and central to horology and he enjoyed many breakthroughs at the beginning of career.

Breguet developed the self-winding perpetuelle watches, along with gongs used in repeating watches. He also presented to the world the first shock protection used in the balance pivots. Enthusiasts of his fine luxury watches included Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Talleyrand, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caroline Murat, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill and Arthur Rubinstein along with the military, scientific and the diplomatic elites of that current time. For his very best clients, the Queen of Naples, Breguet went on to develop what was to become one of his very best achievements in 1810, when he anticipated the wristwatch by two centuries.

A.-L Breguet passed away in 1823 and he was mourned as one of the greatest architects in fine time keeping. The Breguet name continued with capacity to innovate and deliver lifestyle vitality in the art of luxury watchmaking.

Watch enthusiasts throughout the world have agreed that every watch to come from Breguet stands for excellence in the world of horological art. Due to

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