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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 movement: “I would pay any price if I could buy it back”. Mr. Beyer sold Breguet No. 455 thinking the watch may be a forgery but alas to his sorrow: Es war doch eine Breguet!
Oh, the humanity.
Just for fun trivia: what watchmaker "defaced" a George Daniels tourbillon pocket-watch? ...
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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...
