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That Time a Flea Market Find Turned Out to Be a $30 Million Clock
The Imperial Russian Fabergé Egg with a Vacheron Constantin watch inside was originally bought for a mere $13,302.
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Originally published by Eric Wind on Hodinkee.
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 Fabergé. It has now sold privately for millions, likely making it the most expensive timepiece on earth.