Breguet watch manufactory was the brain child of Abraham Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Now the company is owned by The Swatch Group. From a 1976 the watches began to be manufactured in Valee de joux in Switzerland. Breguet is credited with a range of inventions in horology. Tourbillion technology is an invention of Breguet. The breguet usually carries certain recognizable signatures on the watches like the coin-edge case, a technique of engraving known as guilloche and the celebrated pomme hands now popularly called the Breguet hands.
Breguet was introduced to the court of Louis XVI. The king bought several of his watches. The queen Marie Antoinette was fascinated by Breguet’s watches. She gave him the commission to make a watch that contained all the functions known in watches at that time in a single watch. Indeed, she did live to see the watch which was completed many years later. This association of the watch with the ill-fated queen became a celebrated saga in horology and augmented the fame of the Breguet watches. The watch has association with a galore of celebrated men and women of history and of our times.
It is interesting that the watch has many great fictional owners like Dr. Lorrain the famous Petersburg doctor in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The watch is a real presence, by its association with Baron Danglers, the dubious rich merchant, in Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Breguet appears in the celebrated science fiction of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin has many references to articles of luxury. Breguet luxury watches were Pushkin’s predilection.
Breguet has an amazing range of watches distributed between men’s and women’s collections. A simple categorization places them among Classique, Marine, Heritage, Type XX, XXI, La Tradition and Reine de Naples. Women’s watches are larded with a lavish supply of diamonds.
The antiquity of the original Parisian ancestry, the association with a galore of celebrated men and women of the past, the involuntary fictional presence of the Breguet watches in works of literary art and the amazing range of watches have conjured up an image of the watch in the luxury niche of the world that is seductive and needs no serious marketing effort. The only flipside of the brand is its unaffordable price. However, the replica watch industry has understood the popular demand the brand and have come out with an amazing range of replica watches of the brand that are today sold like hot cakes. ReplcaExpert.Us takes care to stock the Breguet replica watches and other reliable replica watches of lingering fame and appeal
