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 HK$49 million (S$8.4 million) at a Hong Kong auction on Tuesday (May 23). An Asian collector residing in Hong Kong calling on the phone bought the rare...
A Patek Philippe Reference 96 Quantieme Lune formerly from the collection of China's last emperor of the Qing Dynasty Aisin-Gioro Puyi is seen during a preview at Phillips, in Hong Kong, China on May 19.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 HK$49 million at a Hong Kong auction on Tuesday .
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. It easily beat a pre-sale estimate of US$3 million . A Rolex watch that belonged to the last emperor of Vietnam, Bao Dai, fetched US$5 million at an auction in 2017.
After Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, Puyi was captured at China's Shenyang Airport by the Soviet Red Army. He was detained as a war prisoner and incarcerated in a detention camp in Khabarovsk, Russia, for five years.
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