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A watch made for Marie Antoinette took 44 years to make — and she never saw it.
In 1783, a spectacular watch was commissioned for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. It was to be made by pioneering Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, with no expense spared or time limit put on its creation. The finished product was indeed something to behold: a gratuitous luxury befitting of the famously lavish monarch. “The Queen,” as the watch was dubbed, used gold instead of brass, and included a perpetual calendar, metallic thermometer, and sapphire mechanisms. It took 44 years to complete — a time frame that exceeded the life not only of Antoinette, who was executed in 1793, but also of Breguet himself, who died in 1823. Breguet’s son finished the masterpiece in 1827. The watch later ended up in Jerusalem’s L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, but it was stolen in 1983 and vanished for decades. It was finally recovered in 2006, returned by the thief’s widow.
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