The watch of the last Chinese emperor sold at auction for a record $6.2 million.

In Hong Kong, a Patek Philippe Reference 96 Quantieme Lune watch, which belonged to Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, was sold at an auction for $6.2 million. The ruler gave them to his translator Grigory Permyakov when he was in a Soviet prison in 1945-50s. Patek Philippe Pu Yi became the most expensive imperial watch in history. For example, the Rolex of the last emperor of Vietnam, Dao Bai, was sold for $5 million in 2017.