Sotheby’s London has announced a historically important sale featuring select works from Israel’s L.A. Mayer Museum. Founded in 1969 by philanthropist Vera Bryce Salomons, the museum houses a spectacular collection of Islamic artworks, as well as watches from the collection of Salomons' father, Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851-1925).Globally acknowledged as an authority on the work of Abraham-Louis Breguet, over his lifetime British industrialist Sir David (1851-1925) amassed the world's largest private collection of Breguet watches and clocks – 124 pieces in total – which were passed to his daughter on his death.Sir David’s collection includes Breguet’s most famous pocket watch, No.
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