Take the tourbillon, a mechanism invented in 1801 to counteract gravity's effects on pocket watches. Swiss brands like Patek Philippe and Breguet price their tourbillons from $100,000 to over $1 ...
In the late 19th century, Abraham-Louis Breguet — Swiss-French watchmaker to European royalty and perhaps the greatest horologist of all time — began work on what would become one of his signature ...