the tourbillon; and the world's first wristwatch. Many of its early patents are still used in watchmaking today. Early in his career, Breguet was introduced to the royal court at Versailles ...

Marie Antoinette, one of Breguet’s early patrons, would have loved it. Both versions of the Classique Tourbillon 3358 measure a very wearable 35 mm wide x 9.43 mm thick case, which is slim for a ...

In those early days, he pioneered many of the ... some visible designs like the tourbillon, which is a Breguet patent. “He also invented hidden inventions, like the Breguet overcoil, the gong ...

Among other things, Breguet developed the revolutionary tourbillon movement ... During Breguet's early years, such luminaries ...

Breguet 3350 Tourbillon Courtesy of Breguet Of course ... Breguet has been owned by Swatch Group since 1999, and certain early models produced under the conglomerate are also starting to go ...

Breguet is marking the creation of the very first tourbillon with a new addition to its Tradition collection. The first tourbillon was created by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801, with the patent ...

He spent his early years working for a handful ... wrote in an email that models from the Roth era at Breguet — including the 3357 Tourbillon and the 3237 Chronograph — are increasingly ...

Why? And what does it even do? Tourbillon is French for “whirlwind.” Pronunciation is: /tuʁ.bi.jɔ̃/ like “tour bee yon” (not “tour billion”). In the late 1700s, famed watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet ...

Image The tourbillon carriage inside the pocket watch made for King George III. Abraham-Louis Breguet patented the tourbillon in 1801.Credit...Sotheby’s, London Anna Rolls, the curator of the ...

The solution was the tourbillon, created by one of the all-time greats in watchmaking, Abraham-Louis Breguet. Dialed In: Your Video Guide to Quartz Watches Oris's Excellent 'Kermit Edition' Watch ...

A chef once joked to me that the secret ingredient to a fillet mignon was an extra 20 quid. It would be easy, albeit a little churlish, to suggest the tourbillon movement could be subjected to a ...