Breguet, Inventor Of The Tourbillon - timepiecesofficial
Developed 220 years ago by Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), the Tourbillon has never been as vital to fine horology as it is today. This year, the House of Breguet will commemorate its founder’s ingenuity, and the treasure that is the Tourbillon, through various events and the celebration of a new model on June 26th.
Breguet, The Inventor Of The Tourbillon - Fratello Watches
2021年3月1日 · On June 26th, 1801, Abraham-Louis Breguet obtained the patent for his invention called “tourbillon”. The tourbillon itself is a little bit older, as it took Breguet about six years to develop it. But who was Abraham-Louis Breguet exactly, and why is the tourbillon such an interesting mechanism?
The History of Breguet Part. 2: The Inventions of Abraham-Louis Breguet …
Breguet patented his invention as a new type of regulator called “Tourbillon”. The date of the 10-year patent, 7 Messidor, year IX on the French Republican calendar corresponds to 26 June 1801. Based on a principle that was brilliant and yet extremely complex to produce, the Tourbillon was far from operational at the time.
Breguet's Blueprint : The Innovations of Abraham Louis Breguet
On June 26, 1801, Abraham-Louis Breguet patented a revolutionary mechanism that neutralized the effects of gravity providing incredible precision in mechanical timepieces and thus the tourbillon was born. This invention was an engineering feat that cemented the illustrious watchmaker’s standing as one of the most innovative figures of all time.
Year Of The Tourbillon: The Story Of Abraham-Louis Breguet, …
2021年12月30日 · Introduced at Baselworld in 2007, the rose-gold Classique Tourbillon Messidor pays tribute to the time when Breguet patented his invention on June 26, 1801 – or, according to the French Revolutionary calendar, on 7 Messidor Year IX. Returning to a manual winding movement, the watch bears all to the wearer with its open-worked construction.
Breguet, inventor of the Tourbillon - Swatch Group
2021年2月11日 · Convinced of the significance of the invention, which could be installed in different types of timepieces, Breguet and his staff went on to produce 40 Tourbillons between 1796 and 1829 – plus nine other pieces which were never finished and appeared in the ledgers as written-off, scrapped or lost...
Montres Breguet | Maison Breguet
Breguet changed hands in 1970 and for fifteen years belonged to the Chaumet brothers, heirs to a prestigious jewellery Maison. From then on, Breguet chose to devote itself exclusively to very high-end watchmaking, including watches with complications that revived its traditional style.
The Tourbillon, history of a watchmaking feat - Time and Watches
Abraham-Louis Breguet conceived the idea of a new type of regulator called "the Tourbillon", around 1795 after returning to Paris from a few years exile in Switzerland (where he was born in 1747) during the Reign of Terror that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution.
FHH - Abraham-Louis Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet opened for business on Quai de l’Horloge, on Ile de la Cité in Paris. The perpétuelle watch, which wound itself by an oscillating weight, was the first in a long series of successful inventions. Designed the open-tipped hands now known as Breguet hands.
BREGUET | INVENTOR OF THE TOURBILLON | ROX MAGAZINE
2013年11月27日 · On June 26th 1801 the French Minister of the Interior awarded Abraham-Louis Breguet a patent for the invention of the tourbillon. This new type of regulator was developed in response to a longstanding problem: the fact that gravity exercises a detrimental effect on the regularity of a movement by generating variations in rate.