In Depth: Breguet No. 160 “Montre d´Or”
Beyond Marie-Antoinette.Abraham-Louis Breguet’s No. 160 exists first as legend. The standard account describes a secret commission for Marie-Antoinette, incomplete when she faced execution, requiring forty-four years to finish. Theft, recovery, mystery, and royal romance: the narrative contains all the necessary elements of mythology.
Yet this fame is recent...
