Marie Antoinette (watch)

Breguet No 160.
TypeMechanical
DisplayAnalogue
Introduced1802

The Breguet No. 160 "The Grand Complication," more commonly known as the Marie-Antoinette or the Queen, is a case watch designed by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, and was his 160th watch. It has been called 'a poem in clockwork'. The watch is thought to have been commissioned in 1783 by Swedish count Axel von Fersen the Younger, the lover of the French Queen, Marie Antoinette. Work on the watch was begun in 1783 and completed in 1802.

The watch is a central plot point in the novel The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil.

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