F.D.R.'s Clock Could Sell For $1 Million
Posted Oct 14th 2007 10:02AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Timepieces, Auctions
A Pierre Cartier clock that belonged to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
is scheduled to go up for auction on December 4th at Sotheby's in Manhattan. Cartier gave the onyx clock with several different time zones (specific to key Allied forces locations in World War II) to the President back in 1943. Letters between Cartier and President Roosevelt regarding the gift are not part of the sale but can be viewed in the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York.
The clock comes with a red leather presentation box inscribed with "F.D.R" and is expected to sell for as much as $1 million dollars.
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