Breguet acquires an exceptional Turkish watch - Interwatches.com News

The Breguet Museum has acquired an extremely prestigious watch made in 1808 for a dignitary of the Ottoman Empire, for the sum of CHF 650,000 at an auction that has taken place in Beijing. 

This historical piece was ordered in 1807 by His Excellency Esseid Ali Effendi, former Turkish ambassador to Paris of the nation nicknamed “The Sublime Portal”, and a personal friend of Abraham-Louis Breguet, who contributed to the awareness of the Turkish market significance. 

It was also around this time that Napoleon’s gift to mark the instatement of Sultan Mahmud II in 1813 was a Breguet sympathique clock covered in precious stones – the most expensive object ever made by A.-L. Breguet, and which is still kept in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

This piece was the highlight of the sale held by Poly Auction in Beijing and generated intense bidding. It will thus now be joining the other Breguet Museum treasures.