Breguet Reine de Naples: References, Specs, and Real Market Prices | Ultimate Watch

The Breguet Reine de Naples is one of the few ladies' collections that a serious collector will actually chase, and the reason is provenance you cannot fake. The line traces back to a single watch Abraham-Louis Breguet built for Caroline Murat, Napoleon's youngest sister and Queen of Naples. She ordered it in 1810, paid for it in 1811, and took delivery in 1812. It was an ultra-thin oblong repeater on a bracelet of hair woven with gold thread, and horological historians regard it as the first watch ever designed to be worn on the wrist. Breguet revived that story in 2002 with the egg-shaped Reine de Naples, and the modern collection has grown into a real spread of references: the diamond-set 8918, the moon-phase 8908, the entry-point steel 8967, and the mother-of-pearl 9807 and 9808. We buy and sell these every week at Ultimate Watch on 47th Street, and we can tell you the market treats them very differently depending on the reference and the metal. This entry lays out what is real: the calibers, the case dimensions, the years, and where the money actually sits.