Historical Perspectives: That Time An Imperial Russian Faberge Egg With A Vacheron Constantin Watch
In one of those stunning stories only made possible by the Internet, in 2012 a man turned to Google to search for "Vacheron & Constantin" and "egg" to find that the jewel-encrusted gold egg housing a Vacheron watch he purchased for $13,302 in the early 2000s at a Midwestern flea market was in fact an 1887 birthday gift for Tsar Alexander III from?Peter Carl Faberg��. It has now sold privately for millions,?likely?making it the most expensive timepiece on earth.The unnamed individual stumbled on a 2011 Telegraph article entitled "Is this ��20 million nest-egg on your mantelpiece?" The egg was the third of 54 Faberg��?eggs owned by the Russian royal family and had been lost since 1922. It is recorded that in 1922 this egg was transferred from the Kremlin Armoury, which had confiscated the eggs in 1917 when the Tsar was overthrown, to the special plenipotentiary of the Council of People's Commissars, Ivan Gavrilovich Chinariov. Beyond the written records, a 1902 photograph of the egg on exhi

Ladies frosted gold
https://.hodinkee/articles/an...et-introducingCould be that it was allready posted, but i just saw it for the first time. Really like the look of it. Hoping they will do a 41mm :-)

Enjoying this lovely Monday
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43 or 38
I have a 165mm wrist size and I'm looking for advice on a Transocean chronograph. I prefer the 43mm case diameter with the Breitling in-house movement, but I'm a little concerned about the size. Does it wear large, small, or just right? Anyone else have this with a similar size wrist? My first Breitling.

Doubts.
With all the shenanigans going on lately, well......found myself lookingat.....well......Omega's.....yes I know, I know, but.........just sayin'.