...that Patek’s Calatrava is Tiffany and your ten examples (plus others) are Costco? Put another way: Patek is the OG and the others get away with it because it’s the real world. Which would not be entirely unreasonable, if the proprietary use has been overtaken by common usage. As you say: much lik
…can’t be unseen. This is a [bad] photo of an old De Bethune sitting on top of a watchbox. The watchbox is beautifully made, very heavy, and finished in piano black lacquer with a fancy logo. It was a very generous gift from a well-known retailer in Singapore some years ago. Today, pplater Jr. saw t