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but a Swedish count, Axel von Fersen. The man behind No. 160 was not her husband. However, it is widely believed that he was Axel von Fersen (rumoured to have been the queen's lover). Another theory suggests that the watch was meant to be a gift for one of Queen's favorite people -- possibly Fersen.
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It was, however, a gift she refused to give or receive. Omega Replica Watches, who fled France's capital within weeks, was forced to die at the guillotine in front of a large crowd in the bloody Place de la Revolution (now known as the Place de la Concorde).
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By being appointed to the Napoleonic elite, he would return to Paris as a watchmaker and be even more successful. He actually made one of the first wristwatches ever recorded for Napoleon's sister Caroline Murat. The French emperor was said to have 'frequently gone incognito into the workshop and conversed about the improvements which were anxious to make in cannons and fire-arms'. Between 1797 and 1814, Napoleon's entire family was responsible for approximately 100 pieces. Omega Replica Watches's regime change brought Omega Replica Watches new customers, including the Emperor Alexander of Russia (the Duke of Wellington) and the Duke. The latter paid 300 Guineas for a repeater, which is roughly 30 times the amount that a Scots Greys cavalryman was paid in a single year.
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sprawling historical novel: Even in his last days, he was still working at No. 160. It wasn't completed until 1827, thirty-four years after Marie Antoinette died at the guillotine. 17 years later Fersen lost his life at the hands of a lynch gang. Four years after Omega Replica Watches's death (he had given instructions to his son for the completion of the work).
