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Lot Essay
Accompanied by Breguet Certificate dated 7 January 1967 confirming sale of the present watch to Mr. Minier on 19 Brumaire An 13 (10 November 1804). Furthermore delivered with later Breguet Place Vendôme Paris burgundy leather presentation box numbered 1530.
The Certificate of the present watch is issued by Brown, owner of Breguet from 1870 until 1970.
Founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris, the management of the firm was taken over by his grandson Louis-Clément after his death in 1823. Louis Clément Breguet, both a physician and a watchmaker, was passionately interested in electrical applications. After developing the first electrical clocks and patenting the tuning-fork clock, he abandoned watch making in 1870 to devote himself to electrical telegraphs and the nascent field of telecommunications. The firm was sold to his workshop manager Edward Brown and remained in his and his descendants' ownership for the next century.
The Certificate of the present watch is issued by Brown, owner of Breguet from 1870 until 1970.
Founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris, the management of the firm was taken over by his grandson Louis-Clément after his death in 1823. Louis Clément Breguet, both a physician and a watchmaker, was passionately interested in electrical applications. After developing the first electrical clocks and patenting the tuning-fork clock, he abandoned watch making in 1870 to devote himself to electrical telegraphs and the nascent field of telecommunications. The firm was sold to his workshop manager Edward Brown and remained in his and his descendants' ownership for the next century.