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Christie's Geneva sells historical Breguet hump-back clock for record price to Breguet Musueum - 11 May 09

May 2009

Christie's Geneva sells historical Breguet hump-back clock for record price to Breguet Musueum - 11 May 09

May 2009

At the sale of May 11, 2009, at Christie's, the market reacted enthusiastically to the previously unrecorded, one owner family Breguet hump-back travel clock originally owned by Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples.

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This masterpiece of important history, consigned by a direct descendant of Caroline Bonaparte sold after a fierce bidding battle to the prestigious Breguet Museum for SFr. 723,000 fetching over triple its pre-sale estimate.

Source: Christie’s
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