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The Breguet No. 160 "The Grand Complication," more commonly known as the Marie-Antoinette or the Queen, is a case watch designed by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, and was his 160th watch. It has been called 'a poem in clockwork'.
Marie-Antoinette N°1160 “Grande Complication” pocket watch number 1160. In 1783, a mysterious admirer of hers ordered from Breguet, as a gift for the Queen, a watch that was to be as spectacular as possible, incorporating the fullest range of horological expertise known at the time.
IN the annals of watchmaking, Abraham-Louis Breguet’s pocket watch No. 160 Grande Complication or simply “Perpétuelle” (fig. 1) has attained mythical status. Commonly known as the “Marie-Antoinette” or “The Queen”, it was designed by Breguet as the result of a commission.
The Breguet timepiece No. 160 takes the name from Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France at the time of the French Revolution. Many experts refer to it as to the most important watch ever produced for technological, aesthetic, historical and even emotional reasons.
Reproduction of the watch no 160 called "Marie-Antoinette" based only on pictures and descriptions. Today this watch is still considered as the 5th most complicated in the world. Functions: hours, minutes, seconds, perpetual calendar, equation of time, repetition for hours, quarters and minutes, independent seconds, thermometer and power ...
The Holy Grail of watchmaking. These are some of the definitions used for the exceptional Breguet timepiece No. 160 that takes the name from Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France at the time of the French Revolution.
10 de set. de 2023 · Often hailed as the 'Mona Lisa of horology' and the 'Holy Grail of watchmaking,' Breguet's extraordinary timepiece No. 160 bears the name of Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France during the tumultuous era of the French Revolution.
