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Two watches belonging to Sir David Salomons and engraved with his coat-of-arms are found in the enclosed book; these watches were not to my knowledge for whatever reason slated for the 2020 Sotheby's sale like the four watches (ultimately withdrawn from the sale) already displayed in the original po

As mentioned in the original post there were two other personal watches of Sir David Salomons withdrawn from the Sothey's 2020 sale namely lots 241 and 240 (enclosed). BENNETT, LONDON | A GOLD OPEN-FACED KEYLESS POCKET CHRONOMETER 1851, NO. 19118. gilded 3/4 plate, spring-detent escapement, compensa

Though usually David Salomons conjures the ghost of Breguet, David Salomons came to Breguet late in life; enclosed are two of David Salomons' personal watches well-before his Breguet days... Leroy & Cie No. 69999 (case) circa 1890, engraved with David Salomons 2nd Baronet coat-of-arms (minute-repeat

One of my favorite watch advertisements (and I think one of the sweetest): French readers will recognize Raymond Peynet's Les Amoureux in the enclosed 1952 watch advertisement ( Indicateur Davoine, page 313, 1952 ). Gerald Genta fans will remember a couple of years ago a Genta watercolor was sold fe

The enclosed advertisement is no stranger to Rolex fans as the advertisement often appears in articles regarding Rolex history; less often is the source of the advertisement mentioned: the 1916 issue of Indicateur Devoine for the Rolex uber-fan.

The enclosed Rolex advertisement appearing in the 1922 issue of Indicateur Davoine includes the factory picture appearing second from the bottom in the Rolex advertisement referred to in the original post.

Rolex uber-fans will recognize the Rolex advertisement appearing in the 1927 issue of Indicateur Davoine displays the same factory picture as the bottom picture appearing in the Rolex advertisement referred to in the original post.

A forum member sent me a picture of some Rolex-related buildings (Figure 1) and asked if I had any information about the picture; I really did not have any knowledge of the picture but with a little digging it happens the picture was used in a 1938-1939 Rolex advertisement (Figure 2) that for whatev

Approaching 100 years ago The Horological Journal presented the tidbit: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "BRAND NEW WATCHES?" regarding the grey-area of the new-watch versus old-watch war-of-words and to the surprise of no present reader Rolex was concerned. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "BRAND NEW WATCHES?" A dispu