Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist Horace Vernet, French painter Entrepreneurs Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French automobile designer & founder of the Bugatti Intellectuals Marquis de Condorcet, French philosopher and mathematician Politicians Nicolas Sarkozy, 23rd President of France Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Prime Minister of France Michel Ney, Marshal of France Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1953 Nobel Literature Prize winner 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Royalty Fuad I of Egypt, King of Egypt Farouk of Egypt, King of Egypt Napoléon Bonaparte, Emperor of France Empress Joséphine, first Empress of France Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, second Empress of France Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, King and Queen of France Louis XVIII, King of France Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples Selim III, Sultan of Ottoman Empire Alexandre I, Tsar of Russia George III, King of the United Kingdom George IV, King of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom and Duke of Windsor See also List of watch manufacturers Manufacture d'horlogerie References External links Official site Breguet watches in the Hermitage Museum The history of Breguet (Time and Watches) Breguet 1747–1823 – online edition of the seminal 1921 biography by Sir David Salomons, hosted by Archive.org 1775 establishments in France Companies based in the canton of Vaud Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland Swiss watch brands Luxury brands The Swatch Group Comité Colbert members French companies established in 1775 Manufacturing companies established in 1775