Phillips to Auction Last Qing Emperor's Patek Philippe Watch.

It's not known when or how Puyi obtained the watch, which was finished by Patek Philippe in 1937, but it was sometime during the period that he was Japan's puppet emperor of the state of Manchuria, or Manchukuo, from 1934 to 1945. (Bloomberg) -- A Patek Philippe watch owned by the last emperor of China's Qing dynasty, and worn through his five years as a captive of the Soviets in Siberia, will come to auction later this year. It's taken Bacs and his team three years to research the watch and its history, learn its story, ensure its authenticity and find its serial number and sale date in the Patek Philippe archives. [Extracted from the article]