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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. [1] It has been called 'a poem in clockwork'.
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.
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.
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.
3 de out. de 2021 · According to Breguet’s team today, the 160 itself was really an accumulation of the many complications the firm had been mastering for a while, all elegantly combined together in one complex package.
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 ...
10 de abr. de 2008 · It was not completed until 1827, 34 years after her death, 44 years after it was ordered and four years after the death of the founder. Breguet n° 160, known as the «Marie-Antoinette», entered into watchmaking legend from 1783.
