Watch brand Parmigiani Fleurier will present a collection of Maurice Sandoz at an exhibition in New York

The New York-based antique gallery A la Vieille Russie together with the watch house Parmigiani Fleurier has organized an exhibition of rare specimens from the collection of Maurice Sandoz. The exhibition will be held from October 26 to November 26, 2011 in New York.
The exhibition will feature over 50 unique products. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to a wider audience to get acquainted with a few examples of watchmaking and jewelry. Exhibits will be such wonderful mechanical artifacts of the past, as the works of Faberge, including the legendary imperial peacock and swan eggs, as well as contemporary works of Parmigiani Fleurier. The well-known watch brand is also famous for its excellent skills in the restoration of watches, and at the exhibition it will demonstrate its better mechanical creations, which are displayed age-old tradition of watchmaking know-how.
More than 160 years the gallery A la Vieille Russie provides its reputation the connoisseur of antique jewelry, masterpieces of porcelain, silver, Faberge eggs, rare watches and fine art masterpieces. Gallery is known for its exhibits, which are masterpieces of Russian art. Since its establishment in Kiev in 1851, then in Paris in 1920, and now in New York since 1941 gallery A la Vieille Russie was and remains a place where collectors, journalists, royalty and nobility gather. Visitors to the gallery at various times were the Romanian Queen Maria, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, King Farouk of Egypt. The heirs of the founder of the gallery, Paul, Peter and Mark Schaffer tenderly treat their customers and faithful to ancient traditions of their ancestors.
Maurice Sandoz, whose collection will be presented at the forthcoming exhibition is not only well-known writer and composer but also an avid collector of watches and Faberge eggs. Upon his arrival in the U.S. in 1941, Maurice Sandoz has cultivated a close relationship with the gallery A la Vieille Russie. As a result, he became the owner of such specimens of high art as the Imperial Swan Egg created by Faberge. Currently the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation Collection include the following works of the legendary Russian jeweler: the Miniature Piano, The Fabergé Imperial Peacock Egg, the Youssoupoff Egg, the Golden Peacock, and of course, the Imperial Swan Egg.
This fall, the collection of Maurice Sandoz will shine in the showrooms of gallery A La Vieille Russie, thus confirming the age-old knowledge and experience of its founders. Among the items included in the collection fund Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation (FEMS) and watch museum Château de Monts in Le Locle, include rare pocket watches, the famous perfume spray gun, the cages with songbirds, snuff boxes, watches in the form of eggs and eggs with pictures of animals.
The watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier is one of the leading watch brands that demonstrate a high art in each model. Masters of Parmigiani Fleurier involved the restoration of antique treasures, which are in great demand in museums worldwide. The collection of Maurice Sandoz has been restored by Michelle Parmigiani. By the opening of the exhibition, Michel Parmigiani breathed life into the clock with telescopic hands running around the circumference of the oval dial - a kind of tribute to the ingenuity of master watchmakers of the past.