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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Grand complication pocket watch · Switzerland

Breguet No. 1160 (modern recreation)

Partially verified

A recreation of the Breguet No. 160 'Marie Antoinette', built from archival drawings while the original was missing after its 1983 theft.

Technical facts

Basis
Breguet archives and museum study

Historical significance

  • A recreation of the Breguet No. 160 'Marie Antoinette', built from archival drawings while the original was missing after its 1983 theft.

Related photographs

Breguet Marie-Antoinette watch in Jerusalem
Breguet Marie-Antoinette watch in Jerusalem — Atzatz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons file page

No confidently matched photograph of this subject has been found yet. These photographs show a closely related record, and are not examples of the type described on this page.

Sources & references

  1. Montres Breguet published history
  2. L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem (original's owner)

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.