The watch has been awarded personally by Tsar Nicholas II to General Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev for excellent service in the army. The watch comes from his family estate. General Alekseyev (May 23 1843 – May 27, 1917) was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, viceroy of the Russian Far East, and commander-in-chief of Imperial Russian forces at Port Arthur and in Manchuria during the first year of the Russo-Japanese of 1904-05.
