Happy Tycoon

Dear Hobby:

how are you in london Both Liv and I miss you very much, as well as Liz and William, are these two little guys obedient?

The situation in France is not very good, Luxembourg has surrendered, the Netherlands has also announced that it has given up resistance, the damn *** has begun to enter the French border, and it is said that the situation on the front line is not very good. Liv and I were worried about whether the French soldiers would be able to withstand the Imperial tanks.

A few days ago, the German plane actually crossed the defense line and flew over Paris. Although it was quickly chased away by the brave French Air Force fighters, Liv and I thought this was not a good thing. Now there are many rumors in Paris that the Germans will call over soon, and Paris may not be able to keep it by then.

Sorry, I shouldn't have told you these things to make you worry. But if I don't say this, I don't know what to say to you.

Liv and I have already decided to go to you by boat next week, but we don't know if we can still buy a boat ticket. It is said that the German striker has already arrived at the front line of Lille. If there is no reinforcements, French soldiers and British soldiers may really be difficult to resist the German tanks. Therefore, we must leave Paris. Me and Liv and the kids don't want to lose our lives in Paris.

Well, let's not talk about these sad things, let's talk about something happy.

Hobby, do you remember our distant cousin Lewis? Yes, that Lewis in Switzerland. He is now a very well-known watchmaker. At the beginning of this year, I specially entrusted Patek Philippe to make me a watch with two functions of world time zone and pulsometer. You know, I am a loyal Patek Philippe user, so I can directly entrust Patek Philippe to customize it for me. a watch. I have used that watch very well, and now I always have it with me.

But while making that watch, I also asked him to make a universal time watch for me. This watch was made by Lewis last year. I saw that watch and it was very beautiful, so I personally entrusted him to make another watch of that model for me. Although I did not entrust this watch with Patek Philippe, Lewis still obtained the private authorization of Mr. Stein, the current boss of Patek Philippe, and made that watch for me in the name of Patek Philippe.

This watch was also delivered last month and it was great, very good. But now I can't do without the watch I always wear. It has a pulsometer, which is very convenient, so I am going to mail you this watch. I hope you like it!

Love your brother, Pierre.

May 18, 1940

This is the first letterhead, and there are two letterheads below it. Yang Jing opened the second letterhead, only to find that the ink stains on the two letterheads are different. The two letterheads were obviously not written on the same day.

The letter I had just read was written in blue ink, and this second letter was written in black ink.

Dear Hobby:

I have to say sorry, Liv and the children and I may not be able to visit you in London.

The situation in France has become very bad, and I did not expect that in just a few days, the entire northern part of France has been completely corrupted. The French soldiers and the British army have been surrounded by German tanks in a small area near the sea. God, has God abandoned us?

The German striker has arrived in the suburbs of Paris, and now Paris can hear the rumbling of guns and the whistling of German planes every day.

I don't know how long France can resist, but the situation is really critical. All the letters I sent to you last week were returned. The British submarines have blocked the English Channel, and letters can no longer be mailed freely between the United Kingdom and France.

Now there are not many ships on the coast of France, so we can't cross the English Channel by boat to reach England at all. Liv and I were going to leave Paris with the kids and go hide in the South of France.

Also, the watch that Cousin Lewis made was hidden in the base of the clock.

Remember the game of hide and seek we played together as kids? If you remember, then you can find the watch and, of course, the two letters. In other words, when you see these two letters, you have found it.

My neighbor is a French naval officer. He is going to Dunkirk tomorrow. I visited him yesterday and he said he could bring me something to England, so I am going to hand over this clock to you. past.

Hope you can receive this clock.

Also, you must remember that that watch is worthy of your serious collection. I hope that when we meet again, I can see that watch on your wrist.

Love your brother, Pierre Alphonse

May 24, 1940

As for the third letterhead, it proved the origin of the watch more directly, because this letterhead was a letter written by Master Cotill to the doctor in Paris.

Dear Pierre:

I have received your letter. Regarding your request, to be honest, I was a little embarrassed at first. But after I talked about it with Mr. Chris Stein of Patek Philippe, Mr. Stein readily agreed to my request. He said that he would privately authorize me to make a platinum world time watch for you. Yes, at the same time you can use the Patek Philippe trademark. But Mr. Stein also specifically explained, only this one.

So, my dear cousin, I will soon be able to make this watch for you, and it should be before you when you read this letter.

The third piece of letterhead is a letter written by Master Cotill to his cousin, that is, the Parisian doctor. In addition to explaining the origin of the watch, this letter also contains some homely words. At the end of the letterhead are Lewis Cotill's name.

After reading the three letters, Yang Jing heaved a sigh of relief, picked up his mobile phone to check again, and finally confirmed the true origin of this watch.

Apparently, Pierre Alphonse, who wrote these two letters, was the Parisian doctor who commissioned Patek Philippe Jean-Cotier to make the watch with two functions of world time zone and pulsometer.

This thing did happen, and that was in 1940. At the request of an old customer, Patek Philippe asked Master Cotier to make a watch with two functions of world time zone and pulse meter.

It's just that Yang Jing didn't expect that this doctor and Master Kotil were still cousins. That’s why the doctor asked Master Kotil to make another Patek Philippe Platinum World Time Men’s Watch Ref-1415-HU for him in private.

And Master Cotier couldn't bear to refuse his cousin's request. After seeking the consent of Mr. Chris Stein, the boss of the Swiss watchmaker Stein Brothers who acquired Patek Philippe in 1932, he made it for the Paris doctor. this watch.

No wonder there is no record of this watch in Patek Philippe. At that time, Mr. Chris Stein only authorized it to Cotier privately. Even Patek Philippe is not willing to offend a master watchmaker like Kotil, and will try to meet the requirements of this master watchmaker as much as possible.

Later, it may be that Chris Stein forgot about this matter or forgot to record the authorization in Patek Philippe, so this watch did not appear in Patek Philippe's official records.

But even if there is no record, it is impossible to deny the real identity of this watch. After all, the existence of these three letters is enough to prove that this watch is absolutely authentic. Of course, if you count the certificate that was wrapped together and signed by Master Lewis Cotill, the identity of this watch will definitely not be lost.

Moreover, it can be seen from the three letters that this Pierre Alphonse wanted to give this watch to his younger brother Hobby in London after he got the watch.

As a result, that time was obviously not a good time.

The first letter was written on May 18, 1940, and the Dunkirk evacuation that shocked the world took place on May 26 of that year.

The doctor originally wanted to wait a few days before going to the UK by boat, but it happened that both Britain and France were preparing for the Dunkirk retreat. At that time, it was simply impossible to go to the UK by boat. , because at that time, all the ships had gathered in Dunkirk, and there were no passenger ships for ordinary people to take. Even if there were ships, no ship dared to go to sea at the risk of being sunk by German planes.

At that time, the bottom of the English Channel was dominated by British submarines, but the skies were dominated by German fighters and bombers.

After discovering this fact, the doctor wrote a second letter to his brother, hid the three letters and the watch in the base of the clock, and entrusted his neighbor, who was an officer in the French Navy, to keep the base of the clock. The bell was sent to England.

According to the doctor's letter, as long as his younger brother received this clock, then according to the game of hiding things that the two brothers played when they were young, his younger brother would definitely be able to find the watch and the three letters.

In the end, for some unknown reason, the clock was not sent to London. Maybe the officer was captured by the Germans on the way to Dunkirk, or something else happened. Anyway, the clock was finally kept. In France, for some reason, it was collected by the old man of the watch shop, Jean Armand, and finally made it cheaper for me!

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