Pocket Watches · Grand complication pocket watch
Breguet No. 160 'Marie Antoinette'
DocumentedEditorial status
Reputed to incorporate every complication known at the time; Marie Antoinette died before its completion.
- Maker / attribution
- Breguet
- Attribution as recorded
- Breguet (completed under Antoine-Louis Breguet)
- Country of origin
- France
- Place of manufacture
- Paris
- Date
- Commissioned 1783; completed 1827
- Historical period
- Precision & Scientific Horology
- Movement
- Perpétuelle self-winding, lever escapement
- Escapement
- Detached lever escapement
- Winding / power
- Self-winding (oscillating weight)
- Case / materials
- Gold, rock-crystal dial
- Dimensions
- c. 63 mm diameter
Mechanisms in this object
- Minute repeater — Complication
- Detached lever escapement — Escapement
Related reading
- Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, F. J. Britten (1899 (first edition))
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