To paraphrase Victor Hugo, “this century was two years old.
Rome replaced Sparta.
Already the power of Napoleon was breaking through under the Breguets of Bonaparte”.
When, in 1798, an ambitious young general already crowned with glory visited Abraham-Louis Breguet, it was clearly not just to get the time.
Admittedly, her brother-in-law, General Leclerc, husband of Pauline, already owns a Breguet watch.
"But when he went to the Quai de l'Horloge in April 1798, ten days before setting out for Egypt via Marseille, his ambition and his status as a prominent person meant that he needed objects reflecting the image he wishes to give of himself,
explains Emmanuel Breguet, vice-president in charge of the heritage of the Breguet manufacture.
He has already done the Italian campaign, he is the man who goes up.
He knows very well that the most brilliant watchmaker in Europe lives in Paris and is called Breguet.”
The future master of the Egyptian campaign will emerge from Breguet with not one but three…
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