Lying on the big bed without any image, Yang Jing pressed the extremely precious watch tightly on his chest with both hands. It took him a long time to soothe the heart that almost jumped out of his throat.

Yang Jing didn't even dare to look at this watch carefully, for fear that his eyes would not be able to be pulled out if they were stuck in it.

From the first glance of seeing this watch, Yang Jing was convinced that it was definitely a Patek Philippe World Time watch, and it was created by Master Lewis Cottill himself.

There is nothing else, you can know this just by looking at the unique shape of the second hand.

The works of Master Lewis Cottill all have a distinctive feature, that is, the unusual shape of the pointer, especially the hour hand, are completely handmade, and the pointers in each watch are subtle. This has become the "signature" that distinguishes Master Lewis Cottill from other clocks.

And this characteristic of Master Lewis Cottier is also unique in the world!

This precious world watch case has a diameter of 39.5 mm and the strap is black. The most important thing is that whenever Yang Jing sees the unique black and white 24-hour dial, his heart will involuntarily beating.

This is a Patek Philippe World Time watch!

Even before I discovered this watch, people all over the world thought that this watch was only one.

Even Master Lewis Cottier never said that he had made the second watch in his lifetime.

But in fact, the three letters that appeared together with this watch proved that Master Lewis Cottier did make a watch of the same style, and also revealed a little-known past for Master Cottier.

In the watch industry, whenever Master Lewis Cottill is mentioned, everyone will say that he is a watchmaking genius who surpasses his era!

When we mention this watchmaker, we have to talk about world clocks.

In the early 19th century, the prototype of world time was still blurred. With the deepening of the Second Industrial Revolution, with the invention of trains, ships and cars, human beings' ability to break through space limitations has become increasingly greater, making travel between two cities far apart relatively easy. At the same time, with the invention of telegrams, instant communication on a global scale has become possible, which requires the world to unify the setting of time.

Especially one day in that era, trains from two cities at different times collided because the time was not coordinated. For this reason, Sheng Fude Fleming, a railway engineer who was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway at the time, became determined to change the status quo.

In 1876, Sheng Fude Fleming suggested that the world time be summarized into 24, and the world was named with every 15 degrees of longitude as the same time zone, and 24 out of the 26 English letters of "J, Y". At first, people did not realize the importance of world time, because after all, only traders or workers like him needed the world. As he spared no effort to tell, the concept of world time was finally recognized at the International Meridian Conference in 1884.

The world's first double-time zone pocket watch that was born later was called "Captain" s-watches" (captain watch), which was mainly for train drivers to use.

As the creators of time, watchmakers have been committed to exploring the secrets of displaying time in multiple regions and even the whole world after promoting the concept of world time.

World Time was first used in pocket watches, but when it comes to the originator of modern world time watches, it is the world time zone invented by Master Cotill in 1935.

The World Time Watch is a type of time zone watch, which can display the time of more than 24 cities. The World Time Watch is the most complex time zone watch and is the well-deserved all-round king in the time zone watch. By displaying 24 different time zones around the world, adjusting the main cities pointed to on the dial scale, adjusting to local time, and holding the World Time Watch in your hand, it is as if you are grasping the pulse of the world, and 24 hearts that beating at the same time indicate every corner of time.

On September 28, 1894, Master Cotill was born in Caruges, Geneva, a small place under the rule of the Bourbon dynasty, belonging to Sardinia.

Cottier's father Emarley was already a famous watchmaker at that time and owned a small workshop in Saint-Victor, Switzerland.

When Cottier grew up, he studied at the Geneva Watch Academy. Because he was good at repairing complex clocks, he was recommended by the famous watch historian Alfred Chapis to the founder of Rolex Hans Wellsdorf, and commissioned the restoration and maintenance of his precious antique watches.

Facts proved that this professional study had a profound impact on Cottill, and he benefited a lot in the years that followed, especially during the Great Depression. After the study, he served as technical guidance in several local factories. After the economic crisis in the late 1920s, many factories were forced to reduce production, while the manufacturers he served went bankrupt directly. At this time, Cottill decided to start his own personal career due to internal and external troubles.

At that time, in the small town of Ruvodie, near Carrouges, Switzerland, Cottier's wife opened a stationery store. In the studio behind the stationery store, Cottier worked for a full 13 years. Here, he began to make table clocks, pocket watches, watches and hand-made movement molds. Most of his watches were special jump watches and rare automatic watches at the time. In 1931, it was in this workshop that Cottier made the first world time zone pocket watch for a famous watch and jewelry store called Beszanger.

After continuous design and production, Cottill gradually became an expert in time zone watches in the world. He designed works for many watch factories in Geneva, and these works have the same characteristics.

His best and most stable customer is Patek Philippe, which commissioned him to design and manufacture a large number of world time zone tables. Vacheron Constantin, Agassi and Rolex also commissioned him to design world time zone tables, and Cottier soon became a famous person in the industry.

In 1935, Master Cottill invented the world time zone watch structure (Heures-Universelles, HU). This exquisite structure seemed to fate to complete the world 24 time zones previously summarized by Fleming. The HU organization accommodates 24 time zones in the same dial.

In 1937, after two years of careful research and development, Cottier finally made the world's first world time watch for Patek Philippe - Ref.515. He assembled a separation mechanism inside the movement, that is, when the user presses the adjustment button, the hour hand and the outer ring of the city are one grid in the opposite direction, but at this time the minute hand is always connected to the movement. This prompts the movement to maintain precise timing.

In the same year, he made the world's smallest world time zone watch for Patek Philippe. From 1937 to 1938, he made the three-calendar world time zone clock for Patek Philippe, which is now displayed in the Beyer Museum in Zurich.

In 1940, at the request of Patek Philippe, Cottill manufactured a watch for a customer of the company, a doctor in Paris, which had both world time zone and pulse meter.

In 1946, in order to thank the Allies for their contributions to the just-concluded World War II, the citizens of Geneva designed by Wenger. Cottier made four gold world time zone watches decorated with enamel for Agassi. These four watches were given to several major military leaders at that time: Churchill, President Truman, Stalin and General Charles de Gaulle. Cottier also made a world time zone clock to give to President Roosevelt's widow.

By that time, Cottill had become a famous watchmaker, and the Patek Philippe World Time men's watch Ref-1415-HU, which once set the world record for auction, was made in 1939.

Yang Jing's exact same Patek Philippe World Time men's watch Ref-1415-HU was made by Master Cottill in 1940, and the customer was the doctor from Paris.

All of this was on the three letters wrapped in a piece of letters with the watch...
Chapter completed!