SOLD! Moments ago, King George III’s Tourbillon watch - one of the most important watches created by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the father of modern watchmaking – sold for £1.6m ($2m) at Sotheby’s London. - The gold four-minute tourbillon watch was pursued by no fewer than four determined bidders who together drove the price well beyond the pre-sale estimate of £700,000-£1,000,000. - Discreetly sold to King George III in 1808, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, the watch is most probably the first tourbillon Breguet sold commercially and is groundbreaking from many points of view. - #SothebysWatches #Breguet #kingGeorgeIII #tourbillon