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8 unusual facts about Breguet


Breguet

Breguet Aviation, a defunct French aircraft manufacturer; was formally known as "Société Anonyme des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Breguet"

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) was founded by José Ortiz-Echagüe in 1923 and began work on a factory in Getafe in May 1924, building Breguet aircraft under license.

Fouga

Receiving technical advice from Breguet engineers, Fouga commenced aircraft manufacture in 1936 with designs purchased from Pierre Mauboussin, whom the firm also recruited.

Jaeger-LeCoultre

The watch was fitted with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 478BWS and featured seventeen jewels, a Breguet overcoil, a regulating spring on the balance-cock, a shock-absorber and a Glucydur® balance.

Last Day in Limbo

But when they break into his villa on the outskirts of Geneva they find a Breguet watch that was a gift from Modesty to Danny Chavasse, a very close friend of Modesty's.

Power reserve

The first wristwatch with the mechanism was created by Breguet in 1933.

Raketa

These watchmakers have been previously working for Rolex, Breguet and Hautlence.

Thomas Tompion

He shares this characteristic with the later French Swiss watch maker Breguet.


Breguet 482

Construction of the two prototypes was well progressed when Germany invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in late May it was decided to evacuate the near complete prototypes from Villacoublay near Paris, with the first prototype being sent to Bône in Algeria and the second to the Breguet factory at Anglet, near Bayonne in the far south-west of France.

Breguet Aviation

The Breguet electric car was produced not at the firm's principal plant at Toulouse but at a smaller plant at Anglet (between Biarritz and Bayonne).

Bréguet Br 905 Fauvette

The Br 905 competed in the 1958 World Gliding Championship at Leźno in Poland as it was intended, though it failed to repeat the success of the earlier Bréguet, coming in 9th out of 24 in the Standard Class.

Breguet Bre.4

At this point, André and Édouard Michelin approached the French government with an offer to sponsor the construction of 100 bombers for the French Army, and were awarded a licence to the Breguet design.

Deux-Ponts

Breguet Deux-Ponts, a family of 1940s and 1950s French double-deck transport aircraft produced by Breguet

Escadrille 103

Escadrille 103 was formed from Breguet Escadrille 17, the latter being founded on 2 August 1914 at Longvic.

ESIEE Paris

It was founded in 1904 and was known until the 1960s as the Breguet school.

Louis Charles Breguet

In 1905, with his brother Jacques, and under the guidance of Charles Richet, he began work on a gyroplane (the forerunner of the helicopter) with flexible wings.

:For the Grande école formerly known as the Breguet School, see ESIEE

Montaudran

Until the 1970s, the Breguet aircraft factories used it as a take off and landing test runway for aircraft under repair (manufacture having moved to Colomiers).

Nicolas Hayek

Hayek played a decisive role in the recovery of the Swatch Group with its watch brands Swatch, Blancpain, Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Pierre Balmain, Calvin Klein, Flik Flak, Breguet and Lanco.

Uhrenmuseum Beyer

The collection includes one of the early marine chronometers by Ferdinand Berthoud, a pendule sympathique by Breguet, a pocket watch with astronomical indications by Auch, several bespoke late 20th century watches by George Daniels, one of the few reproductions of the astrarium by De Dondi to name just a few highlights.

Uruguayan Air Force

Several European aircraft types were used in fairly large numbers during the twenties, among them sixteen Avro 504Ks, thirteen Breguet 14s, five Castaibert 913-IVs, twenty-eight Nieuport 27s.

Victor Denain

For example, as Air Minister he piloted his personal Breguet 27 to Belgrade, accompanied by two squadrons of Breguet 27s and a Dewoitine, to attend the funeral of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia on 17 October 1943.


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