Camera, the Leica Series preproduction sample-0, was sold for 1.8 million euros, plus tax and the final price reached 2.16 million euros at the Galerie Westlicht in Vienna. The buyer chose not to be named, according to AFP.
A former employee of a Leica shop Rupert Eder displays a Leica 0 series camera in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A former employee of a Leica shop Rupert Eder poses with a Leica 0 series camera in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A former employee of a Leica shop Rupert Eder displays a Leica 0 series camera in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A former employee of a Leica shop Rupert Eder displays a Leica 0 series camera in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A former employee of a Leica shop Rupert Eder displays a Leica 0 series camera in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A Leica 0 series camera, number 116 (C), is seen near other Leica cameras on a shelf in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A former employee of a Leica shop Rupert Eder poses with a Leica 0 series camera in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
A Leica 0 series camera, number 116, is seen on a shelf in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. Picture taken May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Olivia Coeln, daughter of the owner of the Westlicht Gallery Peter Coeln poses with a Leica O series, on May 10 in Vienna. A Leica camera prototype made in 1923 fetched 2.16 million euros ($2.79 million) at auction on Saturday, setting a new world record for a camera
A Leica 0 series camera, number 116, is seen on a shelf in Westlicht gallery in Vienna May 11, 2012. The Leica camera, number 116, was built in 1923 as part of a pilot series of 25 cameras and was sold for the world record price of 2,160,000 Euros ($2,789,796) at the Westlicht camera auction on May 12, 2012. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
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