The Breguet Museum has acquired an extremely prestigious watch

The Breguet Museum has acquired an extremely prestigious view, created in 1808 for a dignitary in the Ottoman Empire, for that sum of CHF 650,000 (est. $695,000 USD). This represents a record bid for any Turkish-style Breguet view, as well as a record for the pocket-watch auctioned about the youthful inland China market.

This historical piece was ordered in 1807 by His Excellency Esseid Ali Effendi, former Turkish ambassador to Paris of the nation nicknamed "The Sublime Portal", along with a individual friend of Abraham-Louis Breguet. He contributed to the latter's early awareness with the Turkish market's significance, especially given that Turkey was the only major energy still allied with Napoleonic France. (Napoleon's gift to mark the instatement of Sultan Mahmud II in 1813 was a Breguet sympathique clock lined in precious stones - the most expensive object ever built by A.-L. Breguet, and which can be still stored within the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.)

The Breguet No 1090 Grande Complication view is really a quarter-repeating product with independent grande and petite sonnerie featuring a situation and double-case enameled while in the basic Turkish design, together with a dial graced with ancient Arabic numerals - all in an extremely excellent state of conservation. This piece was the highlight in the sale held by Poly Auction in Beijing and generated intense bidding. It will therefore now be joining the other Breguet Museum treasures and will probably be exhibited in a few weeks' time in Paris within the Breguet Museum located above the iconic boutique on the Place Vendome.

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