Abraham-Louis Breguet: Last News

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".

Sotheby’s London has announced a historically important sale featuring select works from Israel’s L.A. Mayer Museum. Founded in 1969 by philanthropist Vera Bryce Salomons, the museum houses a spectacular collection of Islamic artworks, as well as watches from the collection of Salomons' father,  Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851-1925).Globally acknowledged as an authority on the work of Abraham-Louis Breguet, over his lifetime British industrialist  Sir David (1851-1925) amassed the world's largest private collection of Breguet watches and clocks – 124 pieces in total – which were passed to his daughter on his death.Sir David’s collection includes Breguet’s most famous pocket watch, No.