Fine, rare French gold and silver lever watch Circa 1825
- Kenmerk
- SB0741
- Diameter
- 42 mm
- Estimate
- € 15.000 - 30.000
- Price sold
- € 25.500
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Signed: Breguet
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After Napoleon’s fall from power in 1814 there was a return of the British clientele to Breguet’s workshop. At a time when Paris was occupied by the coalition troops, Breguet had the perfect opportunity to use his exceptional reputation to expand his production. Many English officers such as Lord Clanwilliam became customers.
He then works in Paris, probably with Ferdinand Berthoud and Jean Antoine Lépine, before he opens his own workshop there in about 1775. Initially the focus is on the finissage of foreign ebauche movements, but soon follows the production of pocket watches with his own movements, in the style of Lépine.
In 1784 he is accepted into the guild as a master watchmaker and in 1785 he becomes purveyor of King Louis XVI. After the beginning of the revolution, in 1793, Breguet fled from France back to Neuchâtel. During a stay in London, contacts were made to the chronometer maker John Arnold, from which developed a friendship. In 1795 he returned to Paris.
In 1808 his son Louis enters the firm as a partner and continues it after Breguet’s death. Since then the manufacture is named „Breguet et fils“.
Signed: Breguet
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