Marie-Antoinette

[alw]

Quote:

A gold and rock crystal pocket watch made for the French queen Marie Antoinette by the famed watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, one of the items returned after Israeli police detectives have cracked a legendary clock heist at a Jerusalem museum after a 25-year search. The 1983 theft saw 106 clocks worth millions of dollars disappear from the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art.

[hyster]

Think this is a pic of it for the interested.

[slay]

isn't that the most complicated movement ever to be created?

let's get a rep of that

[chrgod]

Wow.. The worlds most famous watch! :o

Well, seems like it was actually found one year ago.. But I must admit that I did not hear about it then.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mi...ars-399989.html

[alw]

Breguet already made a rep of it this year, presented at Baselworld.

[Corgi]

It's an incredible find, but I don't know if Breguet are that happy. It seems like they enjoyed milking the mysterious disappearance of this particular watch when recounting their corporate history.