A member of the public brought in a pocket watch to be assessed by the experts of the BBC TV series Antiques Roadshow at Blair Castle in Perthshire, Scotland
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Abraham-Louis Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet was a French horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry, including the tourbillon. He was the founder of the Breguet company, which is now a luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group.
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business · Inventor of the wristwatch (1747–1823) · watchmaker · physicist · inventor · engineer · businessperson · mechanic · also Abraham-Louis Breguet, Abraham Louis Breguet, Abraham-Louis Bréguet, Brégnet, Breguet
Born 10 January 1747 · Died 17 September 1823 · Q123679
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2009· 1 entry
The Louvre in Paris presented a major exhibition of Breguet's work, arranged chronologically, with 146 exhibits in eight sections that covered every phase of his career
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2004· 1 entry
Diller had confessed his crime to his wife, Nili Shamrat, and in August 2006 she attempted to sell a batch of the stolen items (including the "Marie Antoinette" watch and a Breguet "Sympathique" clock) back to the museum
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1980· 1 entry
British master horologist George Daniels catalogued the Breguet watches and clocks in the museum and published a study on them
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1925· 1 entry
His daughter Vera donated 57 of his best Breguet pieces, including the "Marie Antoinette" and a "Sympathiques" clock to the L
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1924· 1 entry
Salomons donated the "Duc de Praslin" (pictured at left) to the Musée des Techniques du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, but it was subsequently stolen
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1921· 1 entry
Published the seminal volume, Breguet 1747–1823, the first major book on the subject, which included a biography, an analysis of Breguet's key inventions, listings of major pieces, and a detailed timeline of productio
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1887· 1 entry
Eventually finding its way into the collection of Breguet expert David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons in the 1920s
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1833· 1 entry
(he died in 1858) the business continued under Abraham-Louis' grandson Louis François Clément Breguet (1804–1883); his great-grandson Louis Antoine (1851–1882) was the last of the Breguet family to run the business
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1825· 1 entry
And it remained in use there until the Parramatta observatory closed in 1847
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1823· 2 entries
Died 1823-09-17.
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The firm also had a shop at 4, place de la Bourse, which is known because both addresses appear on the label of watch #4004
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1822· 1 entry
The future engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, then aged sixteen, studied for some months with Breguet in Paris
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1821· 1 entry
And it was installed in Australia's first astronomical observatory at Parramatta
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1818· 1 entry
Lieutenant-General Thomas Brisbane, a keen amateur astronomer, purchased a Breguet mean-time regulator clock (No
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1816· 1 entry
As a full member, and received the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour from the hands of Louis XVIII in 1819
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1814· 1 entry
And the following year gained an official appointment as chronometer-maker to the French Navy
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1747· 1 entry
Born 1747-01-10.
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