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Breguet (1747-1823)

Salomons, David, Sir, 1851-1925 · 1921 · London : Printed for the author · 167 pictures

A privately printed 1921 monograph by the collector Sir David Salomons cataloguing the watches and clocks of Abraham-Louis Breguet, issued in London for collectors and horologists. Halftone photographs show pocket watch dials head-on against plain grounds: Roman chapter rings, guilloché centres, subsidiary seconds and power-reserve sectors, slender hands, knurled bezels and pendant bows, useful as circular dial diagrams and instrument motifs.

Breguet, Abram Louis, 1747-1823 · Clocks and watches -- France History

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