€13m egg breaks three world records

THREE world records were set yesterday when a Faberge egg sold at auction for almost £9 million (€12.5m).

The egg, made for the Rothschild banking family and with a clock on its face, became the most expensive timepiece ever sold.

It also set a record for the most expensive Russian object of all time when it sold for £8.98m at Christie’s in London, breaking the previous record of £6.6m set in April 2002.