Third Imperial (Fabergé egg)

The Third Imperial Egg, given by Alexander III to Maria Feodorovna at Easter 1887. A diamond pushpiece on the fluted gold shell opens it to reveal a Vacheron Constantin watch with diamond-set gold hands. Lost from the records after the Revolution, it turned up in the American Midwest with a buyer who had paid $14,000 and planned to sell it for scrap. Wartski identified it and acquired it for a private collector, and it went on show at Wartski in London for four days in April 2014.