page_title: Abraham-Louis Breguet
hierarchical_section_title: Abraham-Louis Breguet
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo by Fortunat Mueller-Maerki, April 2008, Visit of Antiquarian Horological Society USA Section at Uhrenmuseum Beyer. Here Pendule Sympathique by AL Breguet, ca 1795, selfsynchroniszing the pocketwatch based on the clocktime at 12 o'clock.
context_page_description: Abraham-Louis Breguet, born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking in France. In his lifetime he was considered the leading watchmaker of his day, and he built up a clientele that included many leading public figures and members of the European nobility.
  Alongside his friend and contemporary John Arnold, Breguet is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest horologists of all time. One of his famous ancestors was Jean Breguet a Protestant pastor in Neuchâtel very much influenced by the ideas of John Calvin.
  He is the founder of the Breguet company, which is now the luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group.
context_section_description: Abraham-Louis Breguet (10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking in France. In his lifetime he was considered the leading watchmaker of his day, and he built up a clientele that included many leading public figures and members of the European nobility.
  Alongside his friend and contemporary John Arnold, Breguet is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest horologists of all time. One of his famous ancestors was Jean Breguet (who died in 1593) a Protestant pastor in Neuchâtel very much influenced by the ideas of John Calvin.
  He is the founder of the Breguet company, which is now the luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group.
caption: Uhrenmuseum Beyer: Pendule Sympathique, made ca. 1795, by Abraham-Louis Breguet, Paris
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