The fascinating world of grand horological complications
An introduction to grand horological complications and their place in the history of Haute Horlogerie.
The history of grand complications begins with the “Marie-Antoinette”, one of the most notorious pocket watches in haute horlogèrie (see Fig. 1). Its notoriety comes from being a grand horological complication, the first of its kind, created for Queen Marie-Antoinette by the great master watchmaker Abraham Louis Breguet.
Queen Marie-Antoinette took plea…
