Watch with Benjamin Franklin

Description The image of Franklin reading beside a bust of Isaac Newton is based on a portrait painted in London in 1766-1767 by David Martin (English, 1737-1798). Breguet et fils was a firm founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham Breguet, an immigrant from Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters