AR / ITEM / 00100501
- Date
- Ordered 1783; completed 1827
- Reference
- Breguet No. 160
Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.
Record
An officer of Marie Antoinette’s guard ordered No. 160 in 1783 with instructions to incorporate the leading complications and refinements of the age without a fixed cost or deadline; the Queen never saw it completed. Breguet records completion in 1827, theft from a Jerusalem museum in 1983 and recovery in 2007. The object is individually identifiable rather than merely an example of its model, which is important for Arcarel’s object-level record. The cited Breguet source supplies the key provenance, event or institutional facts used here. No unnamed buyer or owner has been inferred, and fields not established by the source are left blank. Its significance comes from the combination of the physical watch and the documented people, events, institutions or market history attached to this specific specimen.
- Culture
- French
- Medium
- gold
- Origin
- France
In the Tapestry
- Associated with
- Marie AntoinetteA
- Owned by
- Sir David SalomonsA
Provenance and history
Ordered 1783; completed 1827
Made / first documentedA
An officer of Marie Antoinette’s guard ordered No. 160 in 1783 with instructions to incorporate the leading complications and refinements of the age without a fixed cost or deadline; the Queen never saw it completed.
1827, 1983 and 2007
Later documented eventA
Breguet records completion in 1827, theft from a Jerusalem museum in 1983 and recovery in 2007.
Sources
- A
Breguet, 'Order for watch No. 160, known as the Marie-Antoinette watch'
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