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	Brequet Watches
		Abraham Louis Breguet was born in 1747 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
		On a commercial level, Breguet was known and highly regarded at all European courts and became the watchmaker of reference for diplomatic, scientific, military and financial elites.
		The founding father passed on but the story continued While the influence of Abraham Louis Breguet was felt in all counties, his work was particularly perpetuated within the house which bore his name and pursued the prestigious route he had opened under the leadership of his son and grandson.
	www.jewelry-wholesalers.com /WatchInfo/brequet.htm (1671 words)

	Breguet and Thomire
		One year later, Breguet, who had formerly practiced his craft by special permission, was made Master, thus joining the ranks of the oldest group of watchmakers in Europe, the guild of the "maîtres horlogers de la ville et faubourgs de Paris", founded in 1544.
		During the reign of Louis XVI, the neoclassical style was given a gentle and graceful interpretation, but as the Revolution approached, the lines stiffened and Greco-Roman antiquity came to be imitated in a stricter fashion.
		The collaboration between Breguet and Thomire, in which a master of time was associated with an exceptional bronzier, resulted in the creation of extraordinary horological pieces.
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	Lizeray Family tree - pafg855 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Abraham Louis BREGUET Horloger [Parents] was born on 10 Jan 1747 in Neuchâtel, Suisse, *.
		Abraham Louis BREGUET Horloger was born on 10 Jan 1747.
		Louis Clément François BREGUET was born on 22 Dec 1804.
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	Vive La Vie
		It was Breguet's ability to articulate the relationship between the ethereal nature of time and the dilemma of physically representing it accurately, which set him apart even as a lowly apprentice.
		Although it wouldn't be until 1795 that Breguet would develop the revolving carriage watch - the Tourbillon, which eliminated positional errors by rotating the balance once each minute, he was already being hailed as the leading watchmaker of his generation by the time he opened for business in Paris in 1775.
		Even a casual perusal of a Breguet catalogue reveals wristwatches, pocket watches and clocks of exquisite beauty; from the elegantly clean lines of a simple white dial with a minimum of complications, to the brilliance of the diamond-studded dials with bands finished in emeralds and pearls.
	www.exero.com /mastergate/secured/boytoys/breguet.htm (1828 words)

	Audemars
		Breguet designed a new type of hands with off-centre hollowed-out points (known as "a pomme" and later simply as "Breguet hands") and elegant numerals for enamel dials.
		Breguet was known and highly regarded at all European courts and became the watchmaker of reference for diplomatic, scientific, military and financial elites.
		The Breguet firm today, relocated at the Vallee de Joux in Switzerland, possesses an exceptional legacy of archives, a constant source of inspiration for its contemporary models.
	www.lucernejewelers.com /web/breguet.htm (304 words)

	Abraham Louis Breguet
		Abraham Louis Breguet, (1747 - 1823), born in Neuchâtel[?] in Switzerland, made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking in France.
		In 1775 he founded the Breguet watchmaking firm in the Ile de la Cité in Paris.
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	Breguet watches. BREQUET. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Heir to an uninterrupted tradition, the House of Breguet now possesses an exceptional legacy in the shape of archives which represent a constant source of inspiration for contemporary models, like the 'Classique Chronograph'.
		Breguet designed a new type of hands with off-centre hollowed-out points (known as "à pomme" and later simply as "Breguet" hands) and elegant numerals for enamel dials.
		While the influence of Abraham-Louis Breguet was felt in all countries, his work was particularly perpetuated within the house which bore his name and pursued the prestigious route he had opened under the leadership of his son and grandson.
	www.diamondhouse.be /breguet/brequet.htm (870 words)

	Breguet
		Since its inception in 1775, Breguet has been a brand dedicated to the essential values of tradition, art, elegance and a deep mastery of the horlogical field.
		Abraham-Louis Breguet was not only the founder of this legendary brand, but also been dubbed the "father of watchmaking" thanks to his inventive spirit and ingenious soul.
		Breguet's mastery of complications yielded a host of inventions, including the famed tourbillion escapment.
	www.planet4watches.com /en-us/dept_11.html (79 words)

	Breguet Watches: Beyer Chronometrie – Watches and Jewellery
		The name of Breguet, one of the highest possible references among watchmaking craftsmen, is part of our cultural heritage.
		The Tourbillon rotating dolly, invented by Breguet around 1795 and patented in 1801, eliminated the effect of gravity on the precision of clocks and is still used in exclusive timepieces today.
		The trademarks of Breguet watches are their blued steel hands with tips in the form of a hollowed-out apple and the fine guilloching of the face.
	www.beyer-chronometrie.ch /english/sortiment/breguet.asp (152 words)

	Was Breguet right about the tourbillon?
		Breguet became a household name in Europe during the 18th to 19th century and the name stuck as a common reference for timepieces, just like FedEx for courier service or Kleenex for napkins.
		Breguet theorized that the effects of gravity on a pocket watch (pocket watches were almost always carried vertically) led to deviations in timekeeping.
		Breguet was correct in observing that the regular functioning of a watch was influenced to a great extent by the watch's position.
	www.tourbillonwatches.com /breguet.html (1334 words)

	Breguet Replica watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Abraham-Louis Breguet was born on 10 January 1747 in the Swiss city of Neuchatel.
		A.-L. Breguet died at age 77 and up to his last day he created new watches and worked on the design of pocket and wrist watches.
		Original Breguet watches may not be in everyone's price range, that's why we at our online store offer only high quality Breguet replica watches at amazingly low prices that are practically indistinguishable from their originals.
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	Breguet - Breguet Discussion Board
		Breguet 14A2 and 14B2 The Breguet 14A2 met the requirements for a 2-seat Army cooperation aircraft.
		Louis Charles Breguet was born into a family tradition of engineering science.
		Aircraft: The Breguet 693 was a French aircraft and was part of the 690 family.
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	THE TOURBILLON STORY - Flying Tourbillon
		Thus Breguet devised a system whereby he mounted the escapement on a mobile platform that revolves on itself in a given period, usually of one minute.
		Breguet intended to compensate for the errors and fluctuations in precision due to the inevitable changes of position of the timepiece.
		Abraham Louis Breguet is buried in the most prestigious cemetery in the world: Le Pere Lachaise, in Paris.
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	Answers to Questions About Watches - Questions in Time - Watch Industry Questions and Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Indeed, Breguet was a great watchmaker, having invented and perfected a large number of ingenious devices.
		However, in an article entitled "Horology" published in 1765 in the Encyclopedia by Diderot and d'Alembert, there is a description of a watch equipped with a perpetual calendar using a large disk on which are marked the months and dates of a normal year.
		Breguet may have picked up this invention later, since, as some historians speculate, he may have been a student of Lépine.
	www.europastar.com /europastar/watch_tech/nicolet7.jsp (1620 words)

	The Watch, GearTrains.com
		Its serial number and other evidence suggest that this watch was made about 1808, but its recently-issued certificate from the Breguet archive indicates that it was first sold on 13 March 1814, to the Duchess of Newcastle.
		Breguet, whose watches were faked even during his lifetime, authenticated his watches with a "secret signature" on the dial of each.
		Breguet No. 1736, pictured in a sale catalog [3], is substantially identical in appearance, except for the decoration on the case back.
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	Tourbillon: torque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		On the 7th of Messidor of the Ninth Year of the French Republic, Abraham-Louis Breguet, a French citizen of Swiss descent, was granted a patent for an amazing machine called a “tourbillon regulator”.
		Breguet did not try experimenting with shapes or the mutual repositioning of parts, but approached the problem of arrhythmia from a different angle.
		Even Breguet himself recognized that on a horizontal plain, his tourbillon revolved pointlessly, and became a sophisticated, but ultimately useless ornament on the watch face.
	www.cigarclan.com /articles/2005/2/19 (2418 words)

	Breguet Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		The fluted caseband of Breguet watches is the hallmark of a style that has fascinated the crowned heads of Europe since Abraham-Louis Breguet set up his business in 1775.
		Breguet watches are subtly recognizable by the delicate engine-turned patterns of the dial—a virtuoso performance of symmetry and precision executed by hand.
		Breguet watches are mobile sculptures, created according to the eternal laws of time.
	jewelry-designers.org /Breguet.htm (325 words)

	Breguet history
		Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) was one of the few whose innovatory genius has had a real impact on time.
		Since 1787 each Breguet watch is recorded with the name of the individual maker, the cost price, sale date and identity of the purchaser.
		It is by demonstrating its skills in fine and complicated watchmaking that Breguet keeps alive its cultural heritage in a modern and innovative way.
	www.replicawatch.biz /breguet_history.html (362 words)

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		Breguet attracted the attention of Louis XV and set up in Paris on the quai de l'Horloge.
		Breguet made the first "perfect&hibar; automatic watch, capable of running for eight years without being overhauled and without going slow.
		Breguet's inventions meant that it was possible from then on to make watches accurate to within a tenth of a second.
	www.datacomm.ch /rbu/brequet.html (314 words)

	Vive La Vie
		It was the very perpetuity of time which inspired learned men to talk of infinity and eternity thus inspiring even the earliest horologists to find an instrument which could keep pace with time and record its passage.
		One of the first watchmakers to develop anything even remotely resembling a perpetual timekeeper was the Swiss born Abraham-Louis Breguet.
		A recognised technological genius whose creative output out-stripped the thinking of even his most astute contemporaries, Breguet was only 15 when he was apprenticed to the master watchmakers.
	www.exero.com /viva/watches/breguet.htm (189 words)

	Carriage clock by Breguet et Fils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Abraham Louis Breguet is said to have been the inventor of the carriage clock.
		For his highest quality carriage clocks, however, Breguet used a case of individual design consisting of a round topped, 'hump-back' case, with silver chains at the top for carrying.
		This particular example is typical of the style and was made in 1822, at a time when Abraham Louis was working with his son Louis Antoine Breguet.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ3804 (289 words)

	Abraham-Louis Breguet pocket watch with moonphase and power reserve indicator
		"guilloché" silver, by Tavernier, signed: "Breguet", with Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dial for the seconds with sector for the up-and-down scale calibrated for 60 hours, aperture for the phases of the moon, the age engraved on the edge.
		Breguet's design was revolutionary by comparison, and incorporated several new "inventions" that were far ahead of their time: two barrels to enable lighter main springs to be used, a carefully balanced "weight" reacting to the slightest movement, and an additional train wheel to provide a going-period of up to 60 hours.
		Upon his return from Switzerland in 1795, Breguet introduced his overhanging ruby escapement, which allowed him to produce watches of supreme thinness and elegance at a reasonable cost and in larger numbers; a considerable help to the re-establishment of his business.
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	Breguet Watch Tourbillon
		First invented in 1795 by Abraham Louis Breguet, we was awarded a patent for it in 1801 under the name "Regulator A Tourbillon".
		Breguet Discussion Board - Breguet Watch discussion forum board - for the discussion of Breguet watches;Swiss watch maker specializing in Swiss luxury watches, fine watches, Moon phase watches, Swiss automatic watches, Swatch watches, expensive watches and elegant watches...
		Since Abraham Louis Breguet, the great watchmaker who patented the Tourbillon Regulator in June 26, 1801 many are those who have tried to perfect this system...
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	The Watchmaking of F-P. Journe [4/9/03] - TimeZone
		He went on the demonstrate the most difficult horological exercises in a series of one-off pieces in the Breguet style, notably: constant-force tourbillons, an astronomical (planetary) watch, a sympathique clock-watch combination, and a self-winding perpetual-calendar pocket-watch, with fusée-detent escapement and constant-force remontoir, showing retrograde date, moon-phase and equation of time.
		Breguet also extended his experiments to a watch in which twin independent balances beat at a common frequency, but this watch was stolen from the L.A. Mayer Memorial Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem on the night of April 15/16 1983, along with other pieces of Sir David Salomon's Breguet collection, notably the "Marie-Antoinette" watch.
		Journe had the opportunity of studying the Louis XVIII resonance clock (the Breguet double regulator No. 3177, completed in 1819) when he was restoring the collection of the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Paris in the early eighties.
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	Breguet Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Abraham-Louis Breguet was not only the founder of this legendary brand, but has also been dubbed the “father of watchmaking” thanks to his inventive spirit and ingenious soul.
		Breguet worked tirelessly to perfect man’s tracking of time.
		Breguet’s mastery of complications yielded a host of inventions, including the famed tourbillon escapement.
	www.thefinestjewelry.com /breguetwatches.html (241 words)

	Breguet - Dassault-Breguet Mirage IV
		Archives breguet, to all those fond of military watches, breguet chronograph type XX.
		The most magical name in the annals of horology, Breguet is one of only a few houses of Breguet Transatlantique XX / Omega Speedmaster Professional.
		The Breguet Br.1050 Alizé (French: "Tradewind") was a French carrier-based anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
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	Breguet - IMSS - Multimedia Catalogue - Biographies - Abraham-Louis Breguet
		Breguet attracted the attention of Louis XV and set up in Paris on the quai Breguet signed his watches in the way that Boulle signed his furniture and
		The French firm of Breguet Michelin made a variety of bombers, the Breguet V was a pusher type with tricycle landing gear that was woefully inadequate for
		Abraham-Louis Breguet and Pierre-Philippe Thomire are both justly famous; the first in the Like Thomire, Breguet admired the new neoclassical style.
	www.linktodir.com /ltd/breguet.html (253 words)

	The Breguet Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Having invested 20 million Swiss francs on new machines and made major investments in material and software for the Research and Development department which was accompanied by the addition of several master watchmakers, the brand had a large increase in the number of watches sold and, logically, an increase in its turnover.
		The minute repeater (Breguet invented the spring gong for repeaters) is considered to be one of the summits of horological art and only master craftsmen with an excellent ear spend numerous hours in the intricate adjustment of the gong.
		The Breguet No. 5 has now been re-born and reflects not only the skills of the Breguet master craftsmen, but also the importance the brand attaches to its heritage.
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	Breguet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Breguet Watch discussion forum board - for the discussion of Breguet watches;Swiss watch maker specializing in Swiss luxury watches, fine watches, Moon phase watches, Swiss automatic watches, Swatch watches, expensive watches and elegant watches...
		Louis Breguet belonged among the industrial giants that always mastered the technical problems, as...
		Breguet, however, was growing more and more impatient over what he considered Moreau's extravagant spending and...
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