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Though the phases of the Moon were tracked thousands of years ago in crude fashion, the moon phase was commonly found in the more complicated pocket watches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pocket watch inspired by the moon landing sells for record $4.5 million Amy Woodyatt, CNN 2 minute read Updated 8:31 AM EDT, Fri July 5, 2019 Link Copied! Sotheby's ...
A gold pocket watch said to have been made for J.P. Morgan disappeared, prompting a hunt that plunged into the baroque world of high-end antiquities.
The watch, the Galet Annual Calendar Montre École—based upon the shape of a pocket watch Ferrier had completed at watchmaking school—was quite simply a masterwork: Measuring 40mm in steel or ...
A watch that was flown to the moon was sold by Christie's for nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the watchmaker's own museum. The Speedmaster chronograph sold on Tuesday for $245,000 to the ...
A Swiss-made pocket watch fetched a record $24 million, the most ever paid for a timepiece, at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva on Tuesday.. The Henry Graves Jr. Supercomplication is named after a ...
A rare pocket watch known as Space Traveller I made by English horological legend George Daniels exceeded expectations Tuesday by fetching a record US$4,561,507 at Sotheby’s in London. The ...
Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon during Apollo 11, with the Omega Speedmaster on his wrist. James H. Ragan, former NASA project engineer and program manager, said the watch had since disappeared.
Set in a 66.5 mm case crafted from 18-karat gold, Pocket Watch Number Two will take bids at Phillips’s The New York Watch Auction: Eight on June 10 and 11. Before the sale, the historically ...
Christie’s “Evening of Exceptional Watches” auction in New York City on December 6 will feature a gold pocket watch owned by Former United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Another ...