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Abraham-Louis Breguet

A man with gray hair and a formal black coat with a white cravat sits against a dark background, embodying the elegance and sophistication of 18th-century European nobility.

Swiss-born watchmaker (1747–1823) who worked chiefly in Paris, supplying Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and the Russian and Ottoman courts. Breguet invented or perfected the tourbillon, the self-winding perpétuelle, the overcoil hairspring, the pare-chute shock-absorber, the guilloché dial, and the first wristwatch, made for Caroline Murat in 1810. His firm survived the Revolution and now belongs to the Swatch Group.

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