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The third piece of letter was written by Master Cottier to his cousin, the doctor in Paris. In addition to explaining the origin of the watch, the letter also contained some casual words. At the end of the letter was the name of Louis Cottier.
After reading these three pieces of letter, Yang Jing let out a long sigh, picked up his phone to check, and finally confirmed the true origin of the watch.
Obviously, Pierre Alphonse, who wrote these two letters, was the Parisian doctor who had commissioned Patek Philippe to have Master Jean Cottier make a watch with both world time zone and pulsometer functions.
This actually happened. In 1940, at the request of an old customer, Patek Philippe asked Master Cottier to make a watch with both world time zone and pulsometer functions.
What Yang Jing didn't expect was that the doctor was actually a cousin of Master Cotillard. Therefore, the doctor asked Master Cotillard to privately make a Patek Philippe Platinum World Time Men's Watch Ref-1415-HU for him.
Master Cottier could not bear to refuse his cousin's request, and only after seeking the consent of Mr. Chris Stein, the eldest of the Swiss watchmakers Stein brothers who acquired Patek Philippe in 1932, did he make this watch for the Parisian doctor.
No wonder there is no record of this watch in Patek Philippe. At that time, Mr. Chris Stein only authorized it to Cotill privately. Even Patek Philippe is unwilling to offend a master watchmaker like Cotillard, and will try its best to meet the requirements of such a master watchmaker.
Later, Chris Stein may have forgotten about this matter or forgot to record the authorization with Patek Philippe, so this watch did not appear in Patek Philippe's official records.
But even if there were no records, the true identity of this watch could not be denied. After all, the presence of these three pieces of letterhead was enough to prove that this watch was absolutely genuine. Of course, if the certificate signed by Master Lewis Cotill that was wrapped together was included, the identity of this watch was definitely confirmed.
It can also be seen from these three pieces of letter that after Pierre Alphonse got the watch, he wanted to give it to his younger brother, Hobbie, who was far away in London.
It turned out that was 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 taking a ship to England, but it happened that Britain and France were preparing for the Dunkirk evacuation. At that time, it was simply impossible to take a ship to England, because all the ships had gathered at Dunkirk, and there were no passenger ships for ordinary people to take. Even if there were ships, no ship dared to go out to sea at the risk of being sunk by German submarines.
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 send the clock to England.
According to what was written in the doctor's letter, as long as his brother received the clock, he would be able to find the watch and the three letters according to the hidden object game they played when they were children.
For some unknown reason, the clock was not sent to London. Perhaps the officer was captured by the Germans on the way to Dunkirk, or perhaps something else happened. In any case, the clock eventually remained in the UK. Somehow it was collected by Jean Armand, an old man in the watch shop, and he ended up getting a bargain!
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