The year 1801 delivered some major milestones: Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as the third president of the United States; England and Scotland were joined with Ireland under the Acts of Union to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and Beethoven finished his iconic ‘Moonlight Sonata’ in Austria.
That same year in Paris, an accomplished Swiss watchmaker by the name of Abraham-Louis Breguet applied for a patent for his new mechanism, which he called the Tourbillon Regulator. This extremely
