Time on tick, French style
TIME waits for no man, the saying goes, and clients of Abraham-Louis Bréguet were certainly reminded of this fact when paying their monthly instalments to the Swiss-born watchmaker for Souscription pocket watches like this example right which featured at Woolley & Wallis’s sale on January 29.
This repayment method – deposit, followed by installments, was pioneered by Bréguet as a means of at…