If you think your watch is costly, then hang on because, Breguet 1160 is excessively ‘distraught’ when we discuss about the world’s most costly watches. Wearing an excellent watch accompanies loads of money, consequently numerous wealthy people couldn’t care less about the cost in question but spend huge amounts of money to buy them.
There are many watch brands on the planet but what distincts the best from the rest is the quality and cost included. The Breguet 1160 which was made in 2008, is one of the costly watches with the sticker price as much as $30 million.
By legend, the first 1160 pocket watch was commissioned in 1783 for Marie Antoinette, who collected Breguet watches. Tragically, the French Revolution meddled and France’s Queen was always unable to take responsibility of her timepiece (which, regardless, was not finished until 1827—34 years after she went to the guillotine).
In 2004, Swatch Group originator Nicolas Hayek requested the show-stopper to be recreated from the drawings in the Breguet documents and the subsequent watch was finished in 2008.
This was the beginning of the Breguet 1160 watch. Many have associated the high cost to the French Queen, which is the reason it is expensive. However, according to the brand creators, the Breguet 1160 watch accompanies high quality, in this way the excessive cost.
The Breguet 1160 Marie Antoinette pocket watch is genuinely one of the most impressive and entrancing horological objects of our modern days. From various perspectives, this watch and the story around it have shaped the establishment for what keeps numerous individuals in affection with watches. It is likely the most significant current pocket watch ever.
Despite the fact that brands like Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin as of now have more confounded pocket watches, the Breguet 1160 Marie Antoinette remains one of the convoluted pocket watch on the planet.
Today, the Breguet 160 Marie Antoinette “unique” pocket watch is in plain view at the L. A. Mayer historical center in Jerusalem, Israel. It is without a doubt the most important horological object in presence.
In September, 1999, the Swatch Group bought Breguet from an investment group. It was the fantasy of the late Nicolas G. Hayek to claim the brand. Mr. Hayek senior began the Swatch Group during the 1980s, and is frequently credited with “saving” the Swiss watch industry during the quartz emergency.
Hayek was known to be totally fixated on Breguet and frequently alluded to his preferred image as the “Gem of the Swatch Group.” His energy lives on today, as his grandson, Marc Hayek, is the CEO of the organization.
Hayek senior allegedly detested the way that the whereabouts of the 160 Marie Antoinette pocket watch were obscure. He at that point chose to create an imitation of the first completely dependent on composed portrayals and drawings made during the pocket watch’s design and construction.
Duplicating the 160 pocket watch into what turned into the Breguet 1160 Marie Antoinette utilizing just visual and composed aids is one of the least talked about accomplishments in current watchmaking.
Exceptional Features:
At 63mm wide in 18k gold, the Breguet 1160 Marie Antoinette endeavored to duplicate the first 160 inside and out from the complications to the precious stone made of characteristic stone gem.
Notwithstanding the time and including programmed winding, the Breguet 1160 Marie Antoinette pocket watch has a perpetual calendar, chronograph, minute repeater, thermometer, power reserve indicator and more special technical features which even today remain impressive; all with a skeletonized, dial-free design.
