Chapter 51 Appearance
Yang Jing held an electrician knife in his left hand and a flat-line screwdriver in his right hand, struggling to pry the position between the back plate and the top plate of the clock, and a gap had already appeared there.
There are many gadgets scattered around Yang Jing. These tools, including the tools that Yang Jing is holding now, were borrowed by Yang Jing from the hotel maintenance office just now before going upstairs.
Although Yang Jing knew a lot of clocks, he was not clear about the structure of clocks. However, this antique clock was made quite precisely, and there was no screw outside, so Yang Jing didn't know where to start.
Yang Jing did not dare to violently dismantle the clock, for fear of breaking the watch hidden inside. This antique clock doesn't matter to Yang Jing, and it will be dismantled if it is dismantled. But if it accidentally breaks the Patek Philippe inside, it will be really nowhere to cry.
After thinking about it, Yang Jing decided to start with the back plate.
This clock is worthy of being a product from Hemler, Germany. I don’t know how to bond the back and top plates. Anyway, it is definitely not glued, otherwise it would have been pried off long ago.
Yang Jing estimated that the shell of this clock is likely to be combined in the form of mortise and tenon, otherwise the top plate and the back plate would not be so tightly combined. But Yang Jing really couldn't figure it out. Can metal and wood be combined in the form of mortise and tenon?
But it turns out that the top plate and the back plate, and even the top plate and the side plate are really combined in the form of tenon.
Yang Jing tried his best to finally remove the back panel. At this time, he realized that there was indeed a squid on the silver top panel, and the squid was directly stuffed into the squid.
Just this combination of mortise and tenon can be enough to show Hemler's exquisite craftsmanship.
After the back panel was removed, the entire antique clock was basically visible.
The two side panels were removed in the same way, and the interior of the antique clock worth 10,000 euros was finally revealed.
But Yang Jing searched for it, but he couldn't find where the Patek Philippe World Time watch was hidden.
Yang Jing even finally removed the movement from a large amount, but he didn't see the watch.
"Has the Holy Ring been mistaken?" This situation made Yang Jing start to doubt.
The entire clock has been almost dismantled, and it will be really a part if it is removed. But a watch is not small, and it is impossible to be able to be dismantled to this level and cannot be seen.
Finally, Yang Jing's eyes fell on the base about five centimeters thick.
The base of this clock is made of a whole piece of mahogany, which bears the weight of the entire clock and is also the heaviest part of the entire clock except for the movement.
The possibility of movement has been completely ruled out, so if there is any place to hide a watch, it is only the base.
In fact, after Yang Jing opened the clock, he could use the identification skills of the holy ring to determine where the watch was hidden, but Yang Jing did not do so.
The treasure you find yourself is the most exciting!
Yang Jing carefully observed the base, but found that there were no other holes on it except Maoyan.
Yang Jing took the base without believing in the evil spirit and began to knock it everywhere with his fingers.
"Well, there is no problem here, there is no problem here, hey, the sound here seems to be a little bit wrong..."
When Yang Jing knocked his finger to the base near the middle position, the sound finally changed a little, as if the wood in this part was a little empty.
This discovery made Yang Jing very energetic. He found a magnifying glass from the pile of scattered tools and began to observe this part carefully.
Not to mention, it’s just that it’s a magnifying glass, otherwise Yang Jing wouldn’t be able to see the difference between this part and other places.
The wood grain in this part is vaguely incompatible with the wood grain in other places, as if the wood in this part has been sawed off and then bonded back together. However, the person who did this work obviously did very carefully. If Yang Jing had not found something wrong with the wood grain with a magnifying glass, he would have really not seen any difference here and other parts.
Turning his head and looking at the movement that was dismantled, Yang Jing smiled helplessly and said to himself: "The movement has been removed, so you can't save this base! Damn it, it's just ten thousand euros! Disassembly!"
Do it as you say it.
Yang Jing took out a piece of fine sandpaper and began to polish it on this part. Within five minutes, the veneer on this part was polished clean.
Sure enough, under the wooden vase, there was a clear rectangular trace.
Obviously, the wood in this part was emptied by someone, and then the man thinned the wood he took out and put it back again. Finally, he used special glue to bond the piece of wood to the base.
Yang Jing picked up another wallpaper knife and began to slowly cut it along the crack. It took about ten minutes to cut off all the glue filled in the crack.
After changing back to the electrician knife, he carefully cut the blade with a bad crack. With a slight force, the wooden block, which was eight centimeters long and less than five centimeters, immediately raised one end.
After removing the wooden blocks with his hands, Yang Jing's little heart suddenly jumped up violently.
Below the wooden block, a ball of something similar to cotton appeared. Obviously, there was something wrapped in the cotton cloth.
He carefully took out the cotton cloth and put it on the bed and slowly opened it. A brand new watch immediately appeared in front of Yang Jing.
The dial of this watch has the unique brilliance of platinum. Obviously, the case and dial of this watch are made of platinum.
The most attractive one is the dial.
The dial is divided into three circles in total, and the innermost ring is the normal twelve hour dial, which is represented by twelve long strip marks.
In this circle, the outer ring of the twelve-hour dial, the second circle, is marked with 23 Arabic numerals, from 1 to 23. But strangely, these 23 Arabic numerals are not marked in normal order.
The position of 1 is at 7:30, and then arranges every half hour position, until 23 at 6:30. As for the position of 7:00, a point is used instead.
Moreover, in this circle of numbers, the upper right half, that is, from 6 to 18, is white, and the lower left half, from 18 to 6, is black. The black and white are clearly distinguished, which is particularly conspicuous. This circle is the 24-hour dial. The white part represents the daytime, and the black part represents the night.
As for the outermost layer, place names are marked, such as London, Greenwich, and Tokyo...
This unique dial structure allows Yang Jing to recognize the true identity of this watch at a glance - Patek Philippe World Time watch.
Although Yang Jing had never seen this watch with his own eyes before, there were many pictures of this watch online. After all, this watch was the most expensive watch in the world before 2015.
This unique 24-hour dial with white and black on top is one of the hallmarks of Patek Philippe World Time watches!
Chapter completed!