Yang Jing held an electrician's knife in his left hand and a flat-blade screwdriver in his right hand, and pried hard between the back and top panels of the clock. A tiny gap had already appeared there.
There were many small tools scattered around Yang Jing. These tools, including the one in Yang Jing's hand, were all borrowed from the hotel's maintenance department by Yang Jing on behalf of the doorman before he went upstairs.
Although Yang Jing knew a lot about clocks, he was not clear about their structure. And this antique clock was made very precisely, with not a single screw visible from the outside, so Yang Jing didn't know where to start.
Yang Jing didn't dare to violently break the clock, fearing that the watch hidden inside would be damaged. This antique clock didn't matter to Yang Jing, so he could just break it, but if he accidentally broke the Patek Philippe inside, he would have no place to cry.
After much deliberation, Yang Jing decided to start with the backboard.
This clock is indeed a product of Germany's Hermle. I don't know how the back plate and the top plate are bonded together, but it is definitely not glued on, otherwise it would have been pried off long ago.
Yang Jing estimated that the outer shell of the clock was probably connected by mortise and tenon joints, otherwise the top plate and the back plate would not be so tightly connected. But Yang Jing really couldn't figure it out, could metal and wood also be connected by mortise and tenon joints?
But it turns out that the top plate and the back plate, and even the top plate and the side plates are actually connected together using mortise and tenon joints.
Yang Jing took great pains to finally remove the back panel. Only then did he discover that there were indeed mortise holes on the silver top panel, and the wooden back panel was directly stuffed into the mortise holes.
The mortise and tenon joint alone is enough to show the exquisite craftsmanship of Hermle.
After removing the back panel, the entire antique clock can basically be seen at a glance.
The two side panels were removed using the same method, and the interior of this antique clock worth 10,000 euros was finally revealed.
However, Yang Jing searched everywhere but couldn't find where the Patek Philippe Platinum World Time watch was hidden.
Yang Jing even disassembled the movement into pieces and didn't even see the watch.
"Could it be that there was something wrong with the holy ring?" This situation forced Yang Jing to start to doubt.
The whole clock has been disassembled almost completely, if it is disassembled any further it will really be just parts. But a watch is not small, it is impossible to disassemble it to this extent and still not be able to see it.
Finally, Yang Jing's eyes fell on the base that was about five centimeters thick.
The base of the clock is made of a single piece of mahogany. It bears the weight of the entire clock and is also the heaviest part of the clock besides the movement.
The possibility of a movement has been completely ruled out, so if there is any place where a watch can be hidden, it can only be the base.
In fact, after Yang Jing disassembled the clock, he could have used the identification skills of the holy ring to determine where the watch was hidden, but Yang Jing did not do so.
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Yang Jing carefully observed the base, but found that apart from the mortise holes, there were no other holes on it.
Yang Jing picked up the base in disbelief and began tapping it with his fingers.
"Well, there's nothing wrong here, there's nothing wrong here either. Hey, the sound here seems a little off..."
When Yang Jing's fingers tapped the base near the middle, the sound finally became a little different, as if the wood in this part was a little hollow.
This discovery boosted Yang Jing's spirits. He found a magnifying glass from the pile of scattered tools and began to observe the part carefully.
It’s true, if he hadn’t used a magnifying glass, Yang Jing wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between this part and other places.
The wood grain in this part vaguely doesn't match the wood grain in other places, as if the wood in this part had been sawed off and then glued back together. However, the person who did this job was obviously very careful. If Yang Jing hadn't used a magnifying glass to find that there was something wrong with the wood grain, he wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between this part and other parts.
Turning his head to look at the dismantled movement, Yang Jing smiled helplessly and said to himself: "The movement has been dismantled, and there is no way to save this base! Damn it, it's just 10,000 Euros! Take it apart!"
Do what you say.
Yang Jing took out a piece of fine sandpaper and started sanding the area. Within five minutes, the veneer was sanded clean.
Sure enough, under the wood veneer, there appeared an obvious rectangular mark.
It is obvious that the wood in this area was once hollowed out by someone, who then thinned the wood and put it back, and finally used special glue to glue the wood to the base.
Yang Jing picked up a wallpaper knife and began to cut slowly along the crack. It took him about ten minutes to cut off all the glue filling the crack.
He changed back to the electrician's knife and carefully placed the blade against the crack. With a slight force, the eight-centimeter-long and less than five-centimeter-wide piece of wood immediately lifted up at one end.
After removing the wooden block with his hands, Yang Jing's heart suddenly started beating violently.
Under the wooden block, there appeared a piece of something similar to cotton cloth. It was obvious that there was something wrapped inside the cotton cloth.
He carefully took out the piece of cotton cloth, placed it on the bed and slowly opened it. A brand new watch immediately appeared in front of Yang Jing.
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