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Abraham-Louis Breguet

Swiss watchmaker

Abraham-Louis Breguet is regarded as the most important watch maker and inventor in the history of time measurement.

He was born on 10 January 1747 in the Swiss town Neuchâtel, which then belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia. He completed an apprenticeship with his stepfather Joseph Tattet in Neuchâtel and from about 1763 in Versailles. He then worked in Paris, probably with Ferdinand Berthoud and Jean Antoine Lépine, before he opened his own workshop there in about 1775. Initially the focus was on the finissage of foreign ebauche movements, but soon followed the production of pocket watches with his own movements, in the style of Lépine

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