Maison 51 of 100 · Haute Horology
Breguet
The reading
Abraham-Louis Breguet invented the tourbillon, the overcoil, the shock protection most watches still use. The modern house must live inside that shadow. Guilloché and secret signatures remain the handwriting.
The house
- Origin
- France Founded on the Quai de l’Horloge in Paris by the Swiss-born Abraham-Louis Breguet; the manufacture is in Switzerland today
- Founded
- 1775
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- Swatch Group
- Signature
- Classique / Marine / Type XX
- Register note
- Inventor of the tourbillon This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
Swatch Group holds four of the hundred, this one among them: Harry Winston, Omega and Blancpain. Within the register it is the 11th of the eighteen houses filed under Haute Horology. Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 8th. It is one of twenty-six maisons filed here from France, the largest national group in the register. It is one of thirty-six maisons in this register founded before 1900. No other France house here is filed under Haute Horology. Swatch Group occupies No. 30 through No. 51 of this register. Rolex leads Haute Horology in this register, at No. 41.