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Abraham-Louis Breguet

1747 - 1823

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Abraham-Louis Breguet (French pronunciation: [abʁa.am lwi bʁeɡɛ]; 10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a Swiss-French horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry, including the tourbillon. He was the founder of the Breguet company, which is now a luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group. In his lifetime he was considered the leading watchmaker of his day, and he built up a clientele that included many leading public figures and members of the European nobility. Alongside his friend and contemporary John Arnold, Breguet is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest horologists of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham-Louis Breguet is the 109th most popular inventor, the 115th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 112th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Inventor.

Abraham-Louis Breguet is most famous for inventing the tourbillon, a device that compensates for the effects of gravity on the timepiece's accuracy.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 109 out of 426. Before him are Charles-Émile Reynaud, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Henry Bessemer, Étienne-Jules Marey, Orban, and Walter Hunt. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin, William Webb Ellis, Johann Philipp Reis, David Bushnell, Josiah Warren, and Clément Ader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 5. Before him are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Johann Elert Bode, and Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Vivant Denon, Roger Ducos, Gottfried August Bürger, Leopold Koželuch, Rose Bertin, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, and Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria. Among people deceased in 1823, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 12. Before him are Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Jacques Charles, Charles François Dumouriez, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ann Radcliffe, and Rafael del Riego. After him are Edmund Cartwright, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Markos Botsaris, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 115 out of 1,015. Before him are Gianni Infantino (1970), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), and César Ritz (1850). After him are Charles Bonnet (1720), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), and Gottfried Keller (1819).

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Among INVENTORS In Switzerland

Among inventors born in Switzerland, Abraham-Louis Breguet ranks 1. After him are George de Mestral (1907), and Rodolphe Lindt (1855).

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