The Swiss watch company Breguet was founded in 1775 in Paris. The founder Abraham-Louis Breguet was born in 1747 in Neuchâtel in Switzerland. When he was a child he moved to Paris with his stepfather, where he got a job in a Parisian watchmaker’s workshop. In 1801 he received a patent for his invention of the tourbillion – a unique mechanism compensating the effect of gravity on the accuracy of th…