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Answer: You wouldn't like George when he's angry...
Thomas Engel is the vandal and the victim now commonly called the "Engel" is the 7th of the octet of tourbillions George Daniels made in the 1960s-1970s; No. 7 is the only one of the 8 having a power-reserve display. For reference please see Antiquorum, Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995, lot 258 and George Daniels: A Master Watchmaker & His Art, Michael Clerizo page 70, but in a nutshell and if my memory serves, Thomas Engel purchased the watch and engraved the watch Made by George Daniels for Thomas Engel in mutual esteem of A.L. Breguet; decades later George Daniels fumed: "I did not make the watch for him [Engel]. I wore the watch for nearly two years before I sold it to him. Of course I esteem Breguet, but that is not the reason I made the watch."
Oh, the humanity.
Just for fun trivia: what watchmaker "defaced" a George Daniels tourbillon pocket-watch? ...
Hint...
The watchmaker was featured in the September 2015 issue of Plumbing & Mechanical magazine. ...
Stand and Deliver a Hint
The watchmaker rescued one of the most important German Tourbillons from obscurity, the watch having been thought lost to history...Adam Ant in a 1980 Melody Maker interview said of the watch: " Alfred Helwig's 1927 tourbillon is Mozart's Jupiter forged i...
Hint: Es war doch eine Breguet!
The watchmaker (subject of the trivia question) was the ultimate buyer of Breguet No. 455 sold to Edgar Mannheimer by Theodor René Beyer; in a Neue Zürich Zeitung article Theodor Beyer tells of his regret in selling such a rare Breguet with a verge moveme...
Answer: You wouldn't like George when he's angry...
Thomas Engel is the vandal and the victim now commonly called the "Engel" is the 7th of the octet of tourbillions George Daniels made in the 1960s-1970s; No. 7 is the only one of the 8 having a power-reserve display. For reference please see Antiquorum, G...
