- 357
Breguet
Description
- A YELLOW GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING WATCH
NO 2439 SOLD TO THE PRINCE OF LIECHTENSTIEN ON 16 AUGUST 1815 FOR 2 168 FRANCS - yellow gold
- diameter 50 mm
Catalogue Note
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, (1760 - 1836) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1805 and 1806 and again from 1814 until 1836. He was the last Liechtenstein Prince to rule under the Holy Roman Empire between 1805 and 1806 and as regent of Liechtenstein from 1806 until 1814. He was the fourth son of Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein was prominent in the Napoleonic Wars. At the Battle of Austerlitz, he led the 4,600 cavalry of the 5th Column and, afterwards, continued negotiations with Emperor Napoleon I which concluded with the Peace of Pressburg. He earned the rank of General of Cavalry in 1808.
As Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann made forward-thinking reforms, but also had an absolutist governing style. In 1818 he granted a constitution. He expanded agriculture and forestry and radically reorganized his administration, n an attempt to take the requirements of what was then a modern estate into account.