Sotheby’s Sale of Important Watches in Geneva on November 15th, 2009
Among a group of important historical watches is a yellow gold chronometer pocket watch made for the Emperor of Ethiopia in 1893, the “Negus Watch”, and a gold dress watch made in 1918 to celebrate the achievements of the American Red Cross.
Seized property up for grabs at Miami auction
Cars, boats, jewelry among items to be sold The U.S. Department of the Treasury is hosting an auction of seized and forfeited property in Miami on Aug. 11. Among the items up for grabs are vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry and cell phones. For example, there’s a 2005 Honda Odyssey, a 1978 Beechcraft 95-B55 Baron plane, a 2005 Renegade 32 Center console boat and Rolex and Cartier watches.
Fluorescent Magnifying Lamp offers 32 W circular illumination.
Equipped with 7 in. lens and 115 V lamp, Maxi-Mag provides 1.75x magnification or total of 4x with optional 5-diopter second lens, which swings into position when needed for inspecting circuit boards, jewelry, watches, or other fine-detail materials. Portable task lamp features spring-balanced arm with jointed neck and tension control knob that allows up to 45 in. of reach. Unit comes with 5 ft …