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Evening Standard
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Casey Cooper-Fiske

Marie Antoinette watch to go on display for first time in UK

The watch is made up of 823 parts (The Museum for Islamic Art/Science Museum/PA) -

A watch made for Marie Antoinette and described as “the world’s most famed watch” is to go on display for the first time in the UK at London’s Science Museum.

Breguet’s No. 160 Marie Antoinette was intended to be worn by the French queen, but she did not live long enough to enjoy it, and now the watch will form part of the Versailles: Science And Splendour exhibition, which opens on December 12 at the South Kensington attraction.

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