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Certainly McQueen's Rolex
holds wider appeal in the marketplace but I wonder if Steve was actually using the chrono function on the track? I assume his hands were rather busy! When I was rallying I had my navigator yell out times as I couldn't afford to take my eyes off the road or hands off the wheel :-0 Just a sidebar, regardless 
Your questions about Hawking and Einstein are very intriguing. Google tells me Albert was a Longines man.
Freud's Watch
Freud 1921 The Backstory As the saying goes; “time flies”. And so it was only two years ago, in March of 2020, when I came across mention of the Manufacture Vacheron & Constantin in the archives of the Sigmund Freud Museum in London, a satellite of the Na...
I have gone back
to studie your posts over the years and must say that I learn a lot from them. Me being a watch rookie and an admirer of VC watches. Many thanks
Thanks for your comments
I hope they have given some measure of confidence to engage in vintage V&C watch collecting, or at least an appreciation.
You caught my imagination!
Could you please give me 3 VC vintage models that you really like? Many thanks
I don't have the courage to give you my choices!
Seriously I lack the knowledge regarding vintage VC. However you caugt my imagination so I am going to learn more about them. When it comes to things (watches, cars, pens or musical instruments) I do appriciate if it comes with some kind of a provenance. ...
And the box?
Albeit the papers and pocket watch match. Sometimes a watch is just a watch, A Vacheron Constantin fueled an investigation that we read. The word sometimes fit well.
That was great. Really enjoyed it.
A nice journey through a small piece of history. The watch itself is lovely, and is in perfect condition for its age--what I envision a meticulously cared-for piece would look like. No apparent dings or gouges, but just a uniform patina from being carried...
one of the remarkable aspects of vintage
pocket watches and women's fob or pendant watches is they were often protected in this manner from the bumps and bruises that wristies are subject to. Interestingly, the people at the Library of Congress only found one watchmaker's inscription hand-scribe...
You never cease to amaze!
Thanks for bringing us along for such a wonderful adventure! Such a fascinating story and I really admire your dogged pursuit of this over the past couple of years! Museum archives are an amazing thing to discover and lose oneself in (SSRN and digital mus...
Agree, the pink gold fob
is an addition, I assume by Schur. It was intended to hang outside the pocket but not anchored to a buttonhole like a watch chain. Confusingly, the small round item you noted is also called a fob; a decorative piece that may hold a precious stone carved w...
Fascinating stuff :)
Read everything from beginning to end with much engagement and curiosity! A quest well-worth the effort on all ends, my sincere appreciation for your part in this, and for recording the epilogue here! Sincerely, Filip
Fascinating, this voyage through time.
This is one of the magic traits of engaging with a brand more than a quarter of century old. Maybe Dr. Freud's connection to watches is less relevant than, say, Steve McQueen's Rolex (given the importance of timekeeping in car racing) but nonetheless thes...
Certainly McQueen's Rolex
holds wider appeal in the marketplace but I wonder if Steve was actually using the chrono function on the track? I assume his hands were rather busy! When I was rallying I had my navigator yell out times as I couldn't afford to take my eyes off the road o...
A date is revealed
Thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress, who reached out to VC for some information, we now know this watch was purchased in Freud's home country of Austria in 1912. One wonders how Freud acquired this watch. One theory is that it was a gift from...