BREGUET CLOCKS AND WATCHES (English Edition)

Announcing the fully digitalized book of the works of the leading clockmaker of his time Abraham-Louis Breguet originally published in 1921. It contains eight informative chapters with over fifty authentic fully restored images of the antique clocks and watches plates.
A note from the author:
‘In compiling this little work, the only credit that I can claim is for the time and labour expended in collecting and putting together the various facts and other details connected with the Life and Work of Breguet. Very little appears to be known of his life, but his works are so numerous and important that a survey of these is well worth consideration. When a century exists between the living man and a writer upon his activities the avoidance of errors is almost impossible. At the same time every care to be accurate as far as possible has been taken. Probably, the most interesting part of the following pages is that dealing with my Collection of Breguet's Productions for here is evidence standing before us to-day. The general information I have gained by consulting certain books such as the late Mr. Britten's works, the "Dictionnaire Larousse,'' "Histoire de l'Horlogerie" by Pierre Dubois, 1849, a work by Baron Ernouf, and others, though they gave but very little information. Mr. Hull, of the Firm of Messrs. Le Roy, in London, Mr. Henry Brown (who owns the Firm of Breguet in Paris to-day) and his son, Mr. George Brown, have assisted me in various ways, and to them I owe my thanks. But to Mr. Desoutter, of London, who has made a life¬long study of Breguet's work, I owe special gratitude for lending me a number of pamphlets and other matter which he had collected concerning Breguet, and above all for his constant explanations of technical points connected with these clocks and watches, so difficult to understand except by those who have had a large experience in taking them to pieces and studying them, a fact which accounts largely for their scarcity to-day, so many having been destroyed by incompetent watch repairers. Indeed, I have seen a considerable number made worthless in this manner, also others where owners have had works altered, believing they could improve on Breguet.’

DAVID L. SALOMONS. January, 1921.

The book aims to give as clear practical descriptions of the life and works of Abraham-Louis Breguet in the following chapters:
NOTE BY THE AUTHOR.
CHAPTER I. BREGUET.
CHAPTER II. THE FIRM OF BREGUET.
CHAPTER III. THE LIFE OF BREGUET.
CHAPTER IV. TECHNICAL.
CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTION OF 87 WATCHES TAKEN FROM THEIR CERTIFICATES AND 86 CLOCKS, WITH A FEW ADDITIONAL REMARKS OF INTEREST.
CHAPTER VI. BREGUET'S CLOCKS.
CHAPTER VII. SOME OTHER TIMEPIECES.
CHAPTER VIII.
ADDENDA. – PLATES OF BREGUET CLOCKS AND WATCHES

Please note that every effort has been made, as best as we can, to improve the images of the plates using adobe photoshop from the original scan of the book by Papillon Publishers. There are eleven images that have been left in their original scanned colour in order to improve legibility.

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