Edouard Bovet left London April 20 aboard the Orwell, ship of the “Compagnie des Indes”. He arrived August 16 in Canton where he sold very quickly four watches for the sum of CHF 10,000 representing the equivalent of one million dollars today.

For a long time BOVET was synonym of watch for the celestial (Chinese people) and even a trade currency within the country. «(The watch Chinese;)