The present watch was supplied by special order to King Fouad I, one of Breguet's faithful and regular clients.

Throughout the 1920s, King Fouad purchased several pieces from Breguet, including another almost identical watch, no. 1900, which he bought four days after the present watch on 8 November 1927 for the same price of 3650 Francs.

The year 1927 was significant because it was the year of the King’s celebrated official visit to Paris. As an undoubted connoisseur of watches, it is fitting that the King purchased these watches from the venerable house of Breguet to present as personal gifts.

Breguet no. 1900, was sold by Christie’s Geneva on 16 May 2005, lot 210, for CHF40,800.

King Fouad I
Born in Cairo in 1868, King Fouad I, father of King Farouk, was the first leader of modern independent Egypt. During his reign (1917-1936) as the ninth sovereign of the line of Mohamed Ali, Egypt changed from its brief status as a sultanate under a British protectorate (and its earlier status, prior to World War I, as a khedivial state nominally subservient to the Ottoman Sultan-Caliph in Istanbul) to become a full-fledged and independent kingdom.

King Fouad I had played a major role in the establishment of the Cairo University. He was an instrumental force in modern Egyptian historiography, employing numerous archivists to copy, translate, and arrange eighty-seven volumes of correspondence related to his paternal ancestors from European archives, and later to collect old documents from Egyptian archives into what became the Royal Archives in the 1930s.