Opening of the Chinese emperor bought for a record amount

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The Swiss pair of watches sold at record price of 2.6 million Swiss francs (1.45 million pounds sterling). On this Wednesday in the newspaper The Times.

Two watches with a mirror image of two women and a child produced in 1815. In 1816 the little thing was donated by the British King George III to the Chinese emperor Jiaqing.

Watches, generations were kept in a Chinese family, were bought at the Geneva Antiquorum auction sort of a Chinese collector. The buyer paid the largest amount ever offered for the watch. For comparison, watch one of the crew of "Titanic" has recently gone under the hammer for 92 thousand pounds sterling, and table clocks in 1623 production - 120 thousand pounds sterling.

[Konstantin]

Here we come to a press release.
 

TRADES IN CATEGORY "HOURS"

Geneva, 17 November 2008

Expert Comment: Aurelio Bucks and Tim Bourne, Head of International Department of hours

"The auction house Christie's has achieved quite a successful outcome of the Geneva autumn auctions in the category" Clock ", which took place on November 17. Total sales amounted to SFr.17, 881,000, surpassing the total lower estimate of trades. It sold 82%presented at the auction lots. Bidding attracted attention mainly private collectors and museum curators, who actively participated in the auction. More than 125 collectors from Asia, the United States, Europe and Canada have bet on the Internet. Department of hours confirmed its leading position in the market in this category. Good price indicators were demonstrated in the sale of lots in all price categories. Many of the lots exceeded their estimate - Patek Philippe, Rolex (lot number 80, doubled the howling of the lower estimate); Audemars Piguet (lot number 69, quadrupled its lower estimate); Piaget (lots number 235 and number 236, tripling its lower estimate) and Cartier (lot number 206, to triple its lower estimate). Christie's continues to be the leading auction platform, which sold the most outstanding and rare watches ».

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Konstantin, all interesting and watches and books .. can better review? (as of antiquarian books, it came out fine).