AR / ITEM / 00100486

Winston Churchill’s Breguet No. 765

Breguet

The Duke of Marlborough purchased this minute-repeater chronograph with flyback seconds in 1890; it later passed to Winston Churchill, who wore it throughout his life.

Date
Purchased 1890; serviced from 1901
Reference
Breguet No. 765

Plate not recorded
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Record

The Duke of Marlborough purchased this minute-repeater chronograph with flyback seconds in 1890; it later passed to Winston Churchill, who wore it throughout his life. Breguet’s archives record Churchill returning No. 765 for servicing, including a documented service in 1901. 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
Origin
France

In the Tapestry

Provenance and history

  1. Purchased 1890; serviced from 1901

    Made / first documentedA

  2. 1901

    Later documented eventA

    Breguet’s archives record Churchill returning No. 765 for servicing, including a documented service in 1901.

Sources

  1. A

    Breguet, 'First servicing of Sir Winston Churchill’s watch'

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