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Abraham-Louis Breguet and the birth of the modern watch, 1790 to 1823
Works by authors such as Stendahl, Balzac and Pushkin, which accurately reflect an entire period of history, make telling allusions to the House of Breguet’s place in the culture of the times: possessing a Breguet symbolised a unique art of living. Abraham-Louis Breguet, father of the renowned Breguet dynasty, was born in 1747, into a French Protestant family living in Neuchâtel. When he was fifteen, his stepfather sent ...
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