# @sothebyswatches on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CCc8U4YHG0D
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12829791-sothebyswatches-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/cfc03ef468.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-07-10T06:54:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sotheby's Watches (@sothebyswatches) — https://gondola.cc/sothebyswatches

## Caption

On view in our London galleries from today! Made for King George III, this gold four-minute tourbillon watch is one of the most important timepieces created by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the father of modern horology.
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Discreetly sold to the King in 1808, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, the watch is engraved with George III’s royal cypher and the letters G & R and is probably the first tourbillon ever sold commercially.
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A true masterpiece, it will be offered in the ‘Collection of a Connoisseur’ auction on 14 July, alongside many other horological wonders. On view until 13 July.
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Click the link in bio for more information
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#SothebysWatches #Breguet #kinggeorgeIII #tourbillon

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tourbillon, kinggeorgeiii, breguet, sothebyswatches

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