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CORUM. A VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION 18K WHITE GOLD RECTANGULAR WRISTWATCH WITH CONCEALED DIAL

SIGNED CORUM, MODEL "LES MILLE ET UNE NUITS", NO. 28, CASE NO. 56.385.59 597190, 1996

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CORUM. A VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION 18K WHITE GOLD RECTANGULAR WRISTWATCH WITH CONCEALED DIAL
SIGNED CORUM, MODEL "LES MILLE ET UNE NUITS", NO. 28, CASE NO. 56.385.59 597190, 1996

With nickel-finished lever movement, 20 jewels, the white dial with black enameled Arabic writings from one of the poems of 1001 nights, concealed under a hinged cover with square aperture in the centre, engraved Arabic inscription and No. 28 on the inside, the rectangular case with ribbed sides simulating the form of a book, back secured by seven screws, together with an 18k white gold Corum buckle, case, dial and movement signed
27 mm. wide and 36 mm. overall length

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, a Medieval literary epic, revolves around Queen Scheherazade and her telling of a series of stories to her husband, King Shahryar as a method to delay her scheduled execution. Told over a period of 1001 night, the tales include such famed individual stories as Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sinbad the Sailor. This masterpiece comprises stories and poems gathered over centuries, by many different people and in many different styles, centrally based on Pahlavi Sassanid Persian book entitled Hazãr Afsãnah.

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