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Dial: enamel, luminous Arabic numerals, sunk auxiliary seconds,tachy scale, sunk 60 min. counter, skeletonized luminous hands.Movm.: 4/5 plate movement, Swiss Ebauche, frosted, gilt, blued screws,2 hammers, 2 gongs, screwed gold chatons, wolfteeth winding wheels,English lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance, bluedbalance spring, florally engraved balance cock, diamond endstone onbalance, gold-chatoned ruby endstone on lever and escape wheel.Dev Nath PurohitDev Nath Purohitwas an author and the master of ceremonies of Udaipur.He was writing a visitors’ guide in 1938.Maj.Gen. HH Farzand-i-Khas -i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-ZamanAmir-ul-Umra Maharaja Dhiraj Rajeshwar Sir Sri Maharaja-i-RajganBhupendra Singh Mahendra Bahadur of Patiala (1891-1938)He was born 12th October 1891 at Patiala , educated at the AitchisonCollege in Lahore, invested with full ruling powers on 3rd November1910, Member of Standing Committee of Indian Princes’ Chamber (tentimes elected Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes during the 1920’s and1930’s), Commander-in-Chief of the Patiala Forces, Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ist Ludhiana Sikhs, Hon. Col. 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, Hon.Maj.-Gen. in British Army, Fellow of the Royal Geographical, Zoologicaland Horticultural Societies, Member of the Royal Colonial Institute,Member of Royal Asiatic Society, appointed Hon. ADC to HM 1922, servedin WWI 1914/18 receiving Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, and ofOrder of Leopold of Belgium, Grand Cross of of Orders of Crown of Italy,Crown of Roumania, and St Saviour of Greece, and of Legion of Honour,served in the Afghan War 1919, represented India at League of NationsAssembly 1925, captained the Indian cricket team on its 1911 tour ofEngland, president of the All-India Gundog League and vice-presidentof the Indian Kennel Association, chancellor and chief patron of theSikhs’ premier educational institution - the Khalsa College at Amritsar, hemarried 1908 HH Maharani Bakhtavar Kaur, daughter of Sardar GurnamSingh of Jind, (mother of seven children, five of whom died young), andhad issue, 88 children in all, mostly by concubines. He died at Patiala, fromheart failure, on 22nd March 1938.He was well known in London and he usually stayed at the Savoy wherehe would book the whole of the 2nd floor. He would be driven in amotorcade of 20 Rolls Royce cars. He died in 1938 and was succeeded byhis son, Maharajah Sir Yadvinder Singh on March 23rd, 1938.Source: http://www.sikh-heritage.co.uk/heritage/Maharajas%20of%20Punjab/Mah%20Punj%20States.htm, as of 09/19/2011Garrard & Co. Ltd.Since 1843, when Queen Victoria bestowed the honour of Crown Jewelleron the company, Garrard has served six successive monarchs. Garrard’scraftsmen and jewellery experts have created and maintained the mostpotent symbols of the British Royal Family, the “Crown Jewels”, the mostimportant jewels in the United Kingdom. The Sovereign’s Sceptre with theCross was partly remade by Garrard in 1910 to accommodate the largestand finest cut diamond in the world, the Cullinan I, weighing 530 carats.Source: http://www.garrard.com/engagement/history/, as of 09/19/2011.33528 G/C: 2 Z/D: 2 W/M: 2, 4120.000 - 25.000 EUR 27.000 - 33.800 USD 200.000 - 250.000 HKD