Wood Marie Antoinette

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Breguet was founded in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet at the Quai de l'Horloge on the Ile de la Cité in Paris, after his marriage to the daughter of a prosperous bourgeoisie French. Dowry provided the "financing" which allowed him to open his own workshop. The connections Breguet Replica watches had with people during his student apprenticeship as a watchmaker and as a student of mathematics soon paid off. After his presentation to the court, whereupon Queen Marie-Antoinette grew fascinated unique self winding watch Breguet, Louis XVI bought several of his watches.

Many inventions Breguet Among the best known is the spiral Breguet, found to date in every watch and clock quality, and the whirlwind, the whirlwind – an ingenious device that Breguet invented to compensate the influence of gravity in the spring of balance in the pocket watches. Among his other inventions were a striking new mechanism of repeaters, an escape again, the call Echappement naturel, similar on the run timer (1789), in 1790, the parachute shock protection system, exhaust from the cylinder with a cylinder of ruby, and improvements of Perrelet's automatic settlement mechanism, applied in perpétuelle about forty years.

Moreover, Breguet made what we consider today as the first complication Great in the history of watchmaking, the View called Marie Antoinette. This watch was commissioned by the guard of the French Queen, M. Croizette with the explicit order which should contain all known complications and the greatest number of gold pieces. There were no restrictions as to time to the clock or the price. This watch was finished in 1827, which means that neither the unfortunate queen (Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in 1793) or the watchmaker himself (Breguet died in 1823) never saw the clock over. The Marie Antoinette was an automatic watch with a perpetual calendar, equation of time display and a minute repeater. It has disappeared since 1983, when was stolen at the Institute of Islamic Art in Jerusalem.

Breguet was not only a talented watchmaker, but also a smart businessman. He invented a payment plan for a special series of watches that are known as one souscription montres. These watches were built symmetrically Lépine gauge, a cylinder of ruby escape, a temperature-compensated balance and impact protection above personal balance. They had a single hand, but reading the time is no problem thanks to the finely detailed dial. These clocks were made in small subscription series of twelve to twenty at a time, customers had to make a payment to order a watch Breguet allowing to finance the production of the series. About 1500 of these souscriptions were made today, are the cheapest La Tradition Breguet replica watches because This relatively large number – if you're lucky, you might find one for less than twenty thousand dollars.

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