Abraham-Louis Breguet, born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry. He was the founder of the Breguet company, which is now the luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group.
Abraham-Louis Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet, circa 1800
Uhrenmuseum Beyer: Pendule Sympathique, made ca. 1795, by Abraham-Louis Breguet, Paris
Statue of Abraham Louis Breguet in Père Lachaise Cemetery
Neuchâtel is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel. Since the fusion in 2021 of the municipalities of Neuchâtel, Corcelles-Cormondrèche, Peseux, and Valangin, the city has approximately 33,000 inhabitants. The city is sometimes referred to historically by the German name Neuenburg; both the French and German names mean "New Castle".
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel in 1645, showing the spires of Neuchâtel Castle; n.b. that the picture is labelled Neocomum (Latin) and Neuenburg am See (German)
Venus of Monruz, dating to the end of the Magdalenian
Rudolph and his sister Bertha in the pedigree of the Ottonian dynasty, Chronica sancti Pantaleonis, Cologne (13th century)
