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George III's £2.5m watch blocked from leaving the country amid Bridgerton hype

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Bridgerton’s men may be outshone in the jewellery stakes by the women, as were their historical predecessors, but they would certainly have carried watches and other accessories of eye-watering value along the lines of the Breguet watch made for George III and sold by Sotheby’s last year for £1.6m.Pocket Watch No.

1297, a four-minute tourbillon made to order by Abraham-Louis Breguet, is now subject to a temporary export bar by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport so as to allow a UK institution the chance to raise the estimated £2m plus VAT that it will take to "save the work for the nation".

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