Last emperor of China’s watch sells for record US$5.1mil FMTNews FMTWorld
HONG KONG: A watch that was once owned by the last emperor of China’s Qing Dynasty, whose life formed the basis of the Oscar-winning film “The Last Emperor”, sold for a record US$5.1 million at a Hong Kong auction today.
It was one of only eight known Patek Philippe Reference 96 Quantieme Lune timepieces and was gifted by Puyi to his Russian interpreter when he was imprisoned by the Soviet Union, the auction house said.Other watches owned by emperors and sold at auction include a Patek Philippe timepiece that belonged to the last Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, which sold for US$2.9 million in 2017.
Born in 1906, Aisin-Gioro Puyi was the last Emperor of China’s Qing dynasty, who began his reign at two years old. He was detained as a war prisoner and incarcerated in a detention camp in Khabarovsk, Russia, for five years.
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