Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007
LOT 522
"The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection" G. C. Williamson, Litt. D., Catalogue of the Collection of Watches, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan. Compiled at his request. Reprinted by Presses Centrales Lausanne S.A., for F. de Nobele, Paris. Large limited edition, red morocco-bound, 224 pages, black and white photographic illustrations. To be sold without reserve
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
EUR 2,500 - 3,700 / USD 3,300 - 5,000
Dim. 38 x 30 cm. In good condition From the Collection of a Spanish Gentleman
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John Pierpont Morgan
Financier, born in 1837. Entered the Duncan, Sherman & Co. bank in 1857; became U.S. agent and attorney in 1860
for George Peabody & Co., bankers, London. Member of Dabney, Morgan & Co., investment securities in 1864-1871;
member in 1871 of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., which became J.P. Morgan & Co., the leading U.S private bankers;
also J.S. Morgan & Co., London, and is today J.P. Morgan Chase. Largely occupied as financier in largest reorganizations
of railways and cnsolidation of industrial properties, he made large donations to many different institutions
including the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum Art and the New York Public Library. A
famous collector of pictures, books, manuscripts, curiosities etc. President of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Died in
1913. He commissioned art historian G. C. Williamson to compile at least two catalogues for him, including this one,
of his watch collection.