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Breguet may refer to:
- Breguet (surname)
- Breguet (watch), watch manufacturer
- Breguet Aviation, a defunct French aircraft manufacturer; was formally known as "Société Anonyme des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Breguet"
- Breguet School, now known as École supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique et électrotechnique (ESIEE)
Breguet is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland.
The company, along with Blancpain and Vacheron Constantin, is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and a pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, such as the tourbillon, invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet. It also produced the first wrist watch in 1810.
Breguet watches are often easily recognized for their coin-edge cases, guilloché dials and blue pomme hands (often now referred to as 'Breguet hands').
In addition to watches, Breguet also manufactures writing instruments, women's jewelry, and cufflinks.
Breguet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), Swiss watchmaker
- Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955), French airplane designer
- Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804–1883), French physicist, watchmaker, electrical and telegraph work
Usage examples of "breguet".
My father sent me as a very young man to work for Monsieur Breguet in Paris.
But it would be churlish to deny that he had been kindness itself after the distressing theft of the Breguet watch at Temple Meads Station.
Once she saw the Breguet watch swinging like a pendulum before her eyes, measuring away her life.
Emperor Alexander, who was neither unobservant nor devoid of humour, gave Vassily a Breguet watch as a token of thanks for his carefully unspecified services.
Dr Ramis pulled out his watch, a beautiful Breguet with a centre seconds hand, and they both sat gravely counting.
Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.
Stephen had the consolation of his watch, an elegant Breguet, a minute-repeater, that had travelled with him and consoled him for more years than he could easily reckon.
Her nails are neatly squared, no polish, and she wears a large white-gold watch with a black crocodile band, a Breguet, and a Harvard signet ring.
On the same trip, he actually stole a magnet crucial to long-distance telegraphy invented by Louis Breguet, and took it home with him to study at leisure.
Chavasse also knew that it was Dinah who had located him in the Limbo slave camp, using a map, a small brass pendulum, and his own very special Breguet gold watch as a contact.
It was Lucifer who, by sensing the Breguet watch belonging to Danny Chavasse when Danny was in the Limbo slave camp, had declared him to be alive somewhere in the world or rather, as the Prince of Darkness saw it, declared that this was a subject of his who had not yet been transferred by death from the upper levels of Hell to the lower.
In the other hand she held a slim Breguet watch which had once belonged to a man called Danny Chavasse.