历史上著名的宝玑拥有者（第三页加入宝玑与文坛巨匠）

adamtwinsen

zhu版若是宝玑的用户，估计半个世纪之后也是宝玑广告上的御用人物了

bartlett

不认识~~~~~~~~~~

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Victor-Marie Hugo （维克托.雨果）



It comes as no surprise that Victor Hugo (1802-1885), who was born in Besançon, an important centre of the watch and clock industry where the 12th century St Jean cathedral houses a remarkable 19th century astronomical clock, should pay tribute to Breguet in these verses quoted from his Songs of the Streets and Woods (1865).




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Victor Hugo cabinet card by London Stereoscopic Company

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Max Jacob（马克雅各）

In 1922, Max Jacob, a French writer and poet (1876-1944) who with Apollinaire was one of the masters of modernism in poetry, published an autobiographical novel, Filibuth ou la Montre en Or (republished in 1994), in which the central theme - a vehicle for the author's mockery of the folly and malice of his fellow men - revolves around a Breguet watch. In a concierge's room on rue Gabrielle (Jacob's address when he lived in Paris) is reverently preserved a watch bought in 1804 by grandfather Lafleur 'from Breguet, the greatest watchmaker of the period'. Coveted on all sides, the precious object is stolen, passing into the hands of a female singer from the Paris Opera staying in Venice, before coming into the possession of an old dandy. The watch is admired in the salons of Venice, and becomes a focus of interest for the Venetian press. Offered as a gift to a passing actress, who entrusts it to her naval officer brother, the watch is then presented to the Minister Aristide Briand, who proudly shows it to the President of the Republic, Alexandre Millerand. New adventures then carry it off as far as Japan, before bringing it back to Paris and into the hands of Madame Lafleur, concierge of the rue Gabrielle. Still coveted greedily, the watch comes to an ignominious end, crushed under the wheels of a car during a family argument.





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Alexander Pushkin（亚历山大.普希金）

The Russian writer (1799-1837), descended from an old aristocratic family who were clients of Breguet from the early years of the 19th century, was familiar with the taste for fine watches and clocks - which he shared in his youth - of Russian high society.






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Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000), a writer of impressive erudition, known for his dazzling and complete evocation of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and an amateur horologist himself, paid tribute to the watchmaker who gave seafarers the means of following their routes with greater safety and certitude. In Blue at the Mizzen (1999) Breguet watches, presented to loved or deserving ones, convey a strong emotional value.

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Henri-Marie Beyle（pen name Stendhal）（司汤达）

Stendhal (1783-1842), best known for his novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, made this flattering allusion to Breguet in his travel piece Rome, Naples et Florence, published in 1817, incidentally providing the best possible publicity for the firm.



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Honoré de Balzac （巴尔扎克）

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), a dazzling chronicler of contemporary society, was well aware of the cultural implications of the name of Breguet. In two other novels of his Comédie Humaine he endows his characters with Breguet timekeepers, explicitly attributed to the great watchmaker:
'He turned towards the mantelpiece, noticed a little square box on it, opened it and found inside it a piece of paper covering a Breguet watch.'
Honoré de Balzac. Le Père Goriot, 1834.
'A fine gold chain hung from the pocket of his waistcoat, where a flat watch could just be seen. He toyed with the "ratchet" key which Breguet had just invented.'
Honoré de Balzac. La Rabouilleuse, 1842.


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Alexandre Dumas, père （大仲马）

Alexandre Dumas the elder (1802-70), the most prolific (with nearly 300 works) and popular writer of his time, made another reference to Breguet watches in The Count of Monte Cristo, published in 1845:
'Mattre Pastrini drew from his fob a magnificent Breguet watch, bearing the name of its maker, the Paris stamp and a count's coronet. "There," he said. "Dear me," said Albert, "I congratulate you upon it; I have one almost the same." He took his watch out of his waistcoat, "And it cost me three thousand francs".'
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845.



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kofchf

个个都是顶级名人啊，很多不认识。再次向宝玑大师致敬。[s:93] [s:93] [s:93] [s:93]

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William Makepeace Thackeray（萨克雷）

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) was an English novelist and satirist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847-48), a novel describing English society during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Aleksandr Kuprin （库普林）

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin's works (1870-1938), written in the realist tradition, bear witness to Breguet's enduring famousness in Russian memories. In a short story entitled 'The Missing Watch', he describes a drinking party held one evening by a group of cavalry officers. One of the officers, Count Olkhovsky, boasts of his rare Breguet watch, only to find to his stupefaction that it is not in his pocket. In order to allay suspicion, and under the influence of drink and fatigue, all the officers agree to submit to a search. All except Lieutenant Chekmarev, who finds himself obliged to leave the party amid general contempt. A few minutes later, Count Olkhovsky's Breguet is found where it had slipped beneath the punch bowl. Chekmarev, meanwhile, has had time to return to his quarters, where he is found with a bullet through his head. A suicide note on his writing table reads: 'Farewell, dear comrades. I swear before God... that I am innocent of this theft. I could not allow myself to be searched for the sole reason that I had in my pocket a Breguet precisely similar to that of Count Olkhovsky, left to me by my grandfather.'
This story, with its tragic ending, was printed as part of a piece on Breguet's work, entitled 'Tempus ex Machina', in issue 22 (1986) of FMR magazine. Purists might question the notion of 'precise similarity' as applied to early Breguet watches, no two of which were the same, and all of which moreover bore an individual number. But then there would have been no story.

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Prosper Mérimée（普罗斯佩·梅里美）

Prosper Mérimée (1803-70), member of the French Academy, whose father, the painter and chemist Léonor Mérimée (1757-1836) was a client and friend of A.-L. Breguet and his son, himself became a client of the firm in his turn. Besides his third 'Letter from Spain' (1830), in which he described the dangers posed to travellers in Andalusia by bandits and footpads, Prosper Mérimée was to return to the theme of watches, a favourite target for robbers, on several occasions, in his correspondence as well as in his short story Carmen, published in 1845, in which the author is robbed of his repeating watch, only to find it again a few days later.

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John Robert Fowles （福尔斯）

The British writer John Robert Fowles (1926-2005) completed the initial draft of his first work, The Collector, in barely four weeks. Published in 1963, it soon achieved best-seller status. It was followed by The Aristos, a collection of philosophical essays and assorted thoughts, then by The Magus, which proved immensely popular with his readers. His most commercially successful novel does however remain The French Lieutenant’s Woman, published in 1969. In the 1970s, Fowles focussed on poetry, publishing Poems in 1973. He has not stopped writing since, his latest book of essays, Wormholes, dating from 1998.

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Jiro Asada （浅田次郎）

Born in 1951, Jiro Asada has long been one of Japan’s most popular contemporary writers. After winning the “Eiji Yoshikawa” prize for young novelists in 1995 for Metoro ni notte, he went on to win the prestigious “Naoki” prize for Poppoya (The Railroad Man) in 1997 then in 2000 the “Renzaburo Shibata” prize for Mibu Gishi Den (When the Last Sword Is Drawn), his best-selling epic novel, which further enhanced his literary reputation.
Many of his works were turned into screenplays, including Love Letter in 1998, The Railroad Man in 1999, Failan (inspired by Love Letter) and When The Last Sword Is Drawn in 2003.

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Henri Murger  （亨利·穆杰）

Born in Paris, the French writer Henri Murger (1822-1861) published Les Scènes de la vie de bohème (Scenes of Bohemian Life) in 1848. Its immediate success let him to adapt it for the stage in 1851 and it was later to inspire Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated opera, La Bohème, in 6.



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adamtwinsen

本帖结束，多谢收看！[s:110]

jxc512

了解一个品牌的历史后，会萌生出别样的感情。。。