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Breguet Type 20 Generation 1 Military Issue

Breguet Type 20 Generation 1 Military Issue

INTRODUCTION Montres Breguet was founded in 1775 by the great inventor and clockmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), and had its headquarters in Paris until it moved to Switzerland in the 1970s. After WWII the French military Ministry of Defence issued a specification, Breguet Type 20, for aviator watches, and asked manufacturers

Breguet Type 20 Civilian, Generation 1 , 2 and 3

Breguet Type 20 Civilian, Generation 1 , 2 and 3

INTRODUCTION An earlier article looked at the development of the Type 20 watch specification and the development of the Breguet Type 20 model which you can read here. At the same time as the military model was being developed, and produced, civilian pilots, and other professionals required similar watches, and