Whois & Analysis for breguet.com

Horology (via Latin horologium from Greek, from hṓra "hour; time" and -o- interfix and suffix -logy; literally "the study of time") is the art and/or science of measuring time.

Ancient Sanskrit language has a similar word hora (होरा) meaning hour.

This word is also used as a measurement of time.Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time.

In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical time-keeping devices, while chronometry more broadly includes electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical clocks for the best accuracy and precision in time-keeping.

Breguet is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775.

Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland.

A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches.

Since a majority of watches are now factory made, most modern watchmakers only repair watches.

However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their parts, by hand.

Modern watchmakers, when required to repair older watches, for which replacement parts may not be available, must have fabrication skills, and can typically manufacture replacements for many of the parts found in a watch.

The term clockmaker refers to an equivalent occupation specializing in clocks.

A watch is a small timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

It is designed to keep working despite the motions caused by the person's activities.

A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by a watch strap or other type of bracelet.

A pocket watch is designed for a person to carry in a pocket.

In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, and is a contrast to a "necessity good", for which demand increases proportionally less than income.

Luxury goods are often synonymous with superior goods and Veblen goods.