Tag: Abraham-Louis Breguet

  • The Special Grand Complication pocket watch No. 1160

    The Special Grand Complication pocket watch No. 1160

    The masterpiece took 4 years to create, based only on pictures and descriptions of the original No. 160 pocket watch which at the time was lost, and eventually recovered in 2007. In 2008, two years before Hayek’s passing, it was completed and has naturally become a permanent part of Breguet’s museum collection ever since. Grand…

  • The High Quality Breguet Type XXI 3817 Hands-On

    The High Quality Breguet Type XXI 3817 Hands-On

    Louis Charles Breguet developed the gyroplane, the forerunner of the helicopter. He also developed the Breguet XIV plane in 1916. And according to Breguet, “between 1917 and 1926, around 8,000 of these legendary aircraft were acquired by an estimated fifteen countries. Other models followed, such as the Breguet 19, and later the Breguet Deux-Ponts (Double…