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Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking

Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking was written by Emmanuel Breguet and Martin Chapman to accompany an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition took place between September 2015 and January 2016 and had the same title as this book. The exhibition was the first time that a major American art museum had had Abraham-Louis Breguet’s work as its focus.

Martin Chapman is the curator at the museum and Emmanuel Breguet is a direct descendent of Abraham-Louis and is vice president of the modern company.

There are three essays in the book: the first provides a biography of the main protaganist; the second gives an overview of the prestige associated with the watches that Breguet made; the third outlines Breguet’s desire to expand his clientele beyond those in his native France, which led him to produce timepieces for customers in Britain, Spain, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

The gallery of images is split into his subscription (souscription) watches, his à tact watches and his simple and complication watches as well as travel clocks and marine chronometers. The last gallery of watches shows the pieces (clocks and watches) made by the company in the Art Deco period.

Hardback. 174 pages.

Measurements:

22.2cm x 26.8cm x 2.2cm