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April 30, 2015 07:21 am PDT
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Marie Antoinette's Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & PerpetualMotion
John Biggs' book about Marie Antoinette's legendary timepiece is now available. I've been waiting for this for years (but not 200 years.)Across continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the worlds greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinettes watch, the 160, worth an estimated $40 million in todays dollars. Read the restOriginal Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tby-xPovkCM/marie-antoinettes-watch-adu.html
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