Once upon a time the lost watch of Adolf Hitler

Once upon a time the lost watch of Adolf Hitler

You may have come across her recently. On the side of Place Vendôme or Rue de la Paix, without even knowing it. Only the two mirror cabinets watching over the man who holds it in his pocket could have caught your attention. She is Adolf Hitler's lost watch, which has just resurfaced in Paris.

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Until then, the rumor of its existence was based only on a video of a few seconds taken at the Kehlsteinhaus, the Eagle's Nest, showing the Führer slipping it into his pocket. But was it his? Did he put it on his wrist once? All we can say for sure is that it exists, it's genuine, and it's for sale.

You could see her, discreetly, under the gold of a Parisian palace. Impossible to be mistaken, between its style and its double Swiss and German hallmarks, it dates from the beginning of the 1930s. On the battery side of this rectangular watch, sober and modern for the time, the dial bears the name of Huber , renowned manufacturer…

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