La Reine De Naples

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The myth is that the first wristwatch was created by A. L. Breguet on commission from the Emperor Napoleon as a gift for his sister Caroline, the Queen of Naples. Whether or not this is the case, the modern Breguet has adopted it, and named their high-end collection of ladies watches the Reine de Naples. The watches tend to have an egg shape to them, which requires them to either have oddly distorted numerals or a complication (power-reserve or moonphase) at the top, the following piece is one of the former.

It is set on an 18kt bracelet and has a painted mother-of-pearl dial set with a rather large, perhaps 1/2 ct, diamond at 6 o'clock.
La Reine de Naples on Bracelet.jpg

A closeup of the dial shows the guilloche circle inset into the mother-of-pearl dial with the painted numerals.
La Reine de Naples dial.jpg

Both photos are mine

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ps. the weird anomoly on the dial between approx 1 and 3 o'clock is a blurring of the serial number, which Breguet prints on the dial for some silly reason

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