We are in 1793, Abraham-Louis Breguet narrowly escaped the massacres of the French Revolution, with the help of Marat.
He spent two years in Switzerland before being able to find his Parisian workshop on the Quai de l'Horloge, on the Île de la Cité.
How to relaunch your activity?
By offering its watches as a subscription, with payment of a quarter of the price when ordering, the balance being due upon delivery of the timepiece.
“When I came back (…), after two years away, I found my establishment upside down.
In order to raise enough money, I decided to sell by subscription a watch of a new kind… ”,
he explained in a manuscript sold at auction a few years ago, having once belonged to another watchmaking genius, George Daniels.
Contrary to the complex watches he could imagine, starting with the tourbillon, the one-hand subscription watch is a masterpiece of simplicity.
Breguet will use the caliber to make its first watches
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