A Longines wristwatch that was presented to Albert Einstein in the 1930s has just been sold at auction by Antiquorum, where it fetched the princely sum of $596,000 (economy be damned). Apparently this is 2000% more than the auctioneer expected - it doesn’t really surprise me though, after all it belonged to one of the greatest thinkers that the world has ever seen. [Luxist via Luxury Launches]

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