Einstein's friends said, until the last days of life, the author of the Theory of Relativity never left Switzerland's Longines brand watch. This watch has just been auctioned in New York and become the most expensive watch in the world.
Einstein - the best physicist of all time.
When the organizers of the auction Antiquorum announced this fall, on a virtual display rack of their Timecode.com network, they will sell a precious object that Einstein's watch immediately caused a heated debate. floating between the collector and the fans of the scholar's talent is considered great this millennium.
Einstein's watch has become the world's most expensive watch.
It was a male wristwatch, with a 14-carat shell cover with Einstein's date engraved on February 16, 1931 in Los Angeles. Until the end of life, Nobel Prize-winning scientist always wore it in his hand. To prove that this watch is yours, the auction house comes with a set of photos at different times, enlarging the clock details in his hand.
The structure of the watch is quite simple, there are no extra functions other than watching the clock, but it is still busy with the famous collectors at the Antiquorum auction store, and the price is very lively. The initial price of the watch is set at $ 20,000 and the organizers predict that only $ 30-35,000 will be sold. But no one expected the price to be pushed up forever and when the last hammer knocked down, its price was $ 596,000, equivalent to 12.5 billion Vietnamese dong, nearly 30 times the price set. It also shows how much Einstein admires people.
Thus Albert Einstein's watch has become the most expensive and most expensive watch in the world from the past. The previous record was a pocket watch that sold for 74,000 Swiss francs sold in 2004, and the buyer was the Longines watch museum.