Marie Antoinette who had been hesitant, accepted his wife's decision to flee with the help of foreign powers and counter-revolutionary forces. Fersen and Breteuil, who represented her in the courts of Europe, were put in charge of the escape plan, while Marie Antoinette continued her negotiations with some of the moderate leaders of the French Revolution. There had been several plots designed to help the royal family escape, which the queen had rejected because she would not leave without the king, or which had ceased to be viable because of the king's indecision. Once Louis XVI finally did commit to a plan,
Marie Antoinette (watch) Marie Antoinette (watch) The Breguet No. 160" "grand complication, more commonly known as the Marie-Antoinette or the Queen, is a case watch designed by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. It has been called 'a poem in clockwork'. Work on the watch was begun in 1782 and completed by Breguet's son in 1827, four years after Breguet's death. The watch is a central plot point in the novel "The Grand Complication" by Allen Kurzweil. The watch was to contain every watch function known at that time, including the following: Even by the standards of the day it was an astronomically expensive piece.