Marie Antoinette (watch)

The watch is thought to have been commissioned in 1783 by Swedish count Axel von Fersen the Younger, the lover of the French Queen, Marie Antoinette.

[4] It was stolen from the L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art on April 17, 1983 along with more than 100 other rare timepieces from Salomons' collection.

It turned out that master-thief Na'aman Diller had committed the theft, hiding the watches in safes in the United States, Europe and Israel.

Watchmakers from Breguet, supported by Swatch chairman Nicolas Hayek, were commissioned to make a copy of the watch in 2005.

The watch was finished after three years and presented to the public in an oak case, made from Marie-Antoinette's favourite tree in France.