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Fabergé's Clock Eggs Through Time



The Moon Phase Clock Egg
Workmaster Victor Mayer, c. 1999-2001


 The white gold moon is set with paved diamonds and onyx to display the moon phases. The movement created by Gerber is an eight-day mechanical movement outfitted with twin spring barrels, a swan-neck fine adjustment, and a Breguet overcoil balance spring.


The hours are visible in a window made of rock crystal on the side of the egg, while the minutes can be seen on the gold ring located directly above it. Every day at noon, “Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy sounds from a musical movement found hidden in the gold-and-onyx pedestal.
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And what about this one ?

The Lost Third Imperial Easter Egg by Carl Fabergé
© Wartski, 2014. Photography Prudence Cuming Associates

A scrap metal dealer who bought an ornament from a bric-a-brac market to be melted down for its gold discovered it is a £20 million Fabergé egg after finding a Telegraph article online.
The Imperial Easter Egg was designed by Carl Fabergé for Tsar Alexander III in 1887 and seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.
The Telegraph, March 18, 2014

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