Abraham Louis Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet
or
Brguet
(
10 January
1747
–
17 September
1823
), born in
Neuchtel
in
Switzerland
, made many innovations in the course of a
career
in
watchmaking
in
France
. He studied watchmaking in France and in
England
and invented different
escapement
methods and re-winding mechanisms, including the
tourbillon
. In 1775 he founded the
Breguet
watchmaking firm in the
le de la Cité
in
Paris
. In 1815 he gained an official appointment with the French
navy
. Breguet died in Paris in 1823. Breguet, Abraham Louis Breguet, Abraham Louis
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