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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Paris, France · 1776 – 1858

Antoine-Louis Breguet

Partially verified

Watchmaking

Life & work

Son of A.L. Breguet.

Training, contributions & innovations

  • Continuation of Breguet firm

Inventions & patents

  • N/A

Signatures & markings on surviving work

  • Signed work

Collecting significance

Signatures on historic work were applied by retailers and by later hands; attribution should rest on the movement's construction and provenance.

Related photographs

Breguet Paris Closed Face Pocket Watch – 1870s
Breguet Paris Closed Face Pocket Watch – 1870s — WatchMuseum.org, © WatchMuseum.org, used with permission. WatchMuseum.org catalogue record
Breguet Paris Closed Face Pocket Watch – 1870s
Breguet Paris Closed Face Pocket Watch – 1870s — WatchMuseum.org, © WatchMuseum.org, used with permission. WatchMuseum.org catalogue record
Breguet Paris Closed Face Pocket Watch – 1870s
Breguet Paris Closed Face Pocket Watch – 1870s — WatchMuseum.org, © WatchMuseum.org, used with permission. WatchMuseum.org catalogue record

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. Britten, F. J., Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers
  2. Loomes, B., reference works on British and European clockmakers

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