Famous company buys Albert Einstein's vintage (smelly) jacket for over $145,000

A leather jacket worn by arguably the most famous scientist in the world just sold for a little over $146,000 — nose plugs not included.

Albert Einstein was a chronic pipe smoker, and a specialist told Christie's auction house, "Astonishingly, 60 years after his death, his jacket still smells of smoke."

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But if you can get past the "pungent" smell, the jacket is practically a part of Einstein himself. The earliest photos of him wearing it come from the mid-1930s "at the height of his fame."

Levi Strauss & Co. paid for the famous physicist's regularly worn jacket he purchased in the mid-thirties -- and the leather has worn considerably over the decades. Einstein didn't seem to own many others.

Just like how his long hairstyle cut down his trips to the barber, a fellow scientist at Princeton University wrote, "One leather jacket solved the coat problem for years."

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The jacket's new, unnamed owner is its first since Einstein died in 1955.

Alongside the jacket, Christie's sold a set of building blocks from Einstein's childhood and his pocket watch.

The watch comes from a very different time in the scientist's life, when he was 21 years old and still a "total unknown." Even though it had an estimated worth of under $27,000, it sold for over $353,000.

This video includes clips from Christie's, U.S. Library of Congress and Emil Vollenweider und Sohn.

(Additional reporting by AOL.com)

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