her family’s defunct watch business. It had made chronographs, or stopwatches, from 1947 to 1983 in a large factory in Charquemont, a French region near the Swiss border. And while Ms.

A watch worn by French war-time hero and president Charles de Gaulle fetched more than €500,000 as part of an auction of his personal items in Paris, auction house Artcurial said. The €537,920 ...

A watch worn by French wartime hero and president Charles de Gaulle fetched more than half a million euro (€) as part of an ...