The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"There is also a small box in the study, which is enough for you to show off for a lifetime."

Upon hearing Jenny's words, Zhang Nan didn't even wear a jacket, and took one of the small, but extremely finely crafted wooden boxes.

There is a trademark engraved with gold silk on the lid of the box, but Zhang Nan doesn't recognize it.

As soon as I opened it, a watch with a leather strap appeared before my eyes.

In fact, there is not much research on the clock Zhang Nan. This watch seems to be about 95% of the color, with very few traces of use: the gray-white case has a very small protrusion on the side of the **** for adjusting the time. It's like a small dial handle.

Although Zhang Nan didn't know much about watches, he knew that this watch was not simple when he saw the small dial that showed a little bit!

"Is this three questions?"

"Yes, three questions."

Jenny still kept a mysterious smile, which made Zhang Nan a little uncomfortable: not against Jenny, but because of a very unpleasant experience in her previous life!

Once again in Hangzhou, when attending a gathering of antique circles, there was a big and ostentatious man who wanted to know the time, but he didn't need to see with his eyes, but listened with his ears!

Nowadays, many electronic watches have the function of telling the time, just press a button, but the big man is wearing a mechanical watch, and the time telling is used!

At that time, the magnanimous little action immediately attracted the attention of others. There are always people who are curious. After some inquiries, they learned that the person was wearing a Patek Philippe "three-question watch".

I don’t know how much more expensive a Ferrari bought in Switzerland than an ordinary Ferrari!

350,000 Swiss francs, equivalent to more than two million yuan!

"Ding Ding Dong Dang" made that person the center of the party. This person was a bit vanity. Of course, Zhang Nan was very upset in his heart: he was wearing more than 7,000 plum blossoms.

Turning back from the memory, he said the truth: "Expensive!"

The new "Three Questions" are so expensive, what about the ones decades ago?

Needless to say, this is a somewhat old "antique watch". The production date is definitely before 1945, and Zhang Nan would not regard the off-white case as the result of oxidation of the all-steel case.

This is a platinum case, just this color.

Three questions, three questions, what is "three questions"?

If it weren't for people who like clocks and watches, there are really not many people who know this term: it represents one of the highest skills in mechanical watchmaking!

Every famous watch brand basically has a refined minute repeater under its own brand. At the beginning, it seemed that it was not to make money, but to prove its technical superiority, so as to improve its reputation and international status.

Simply put, the minute repeater is a watch that can tell the time, and the way of telling the time is also very convenient: there are buttons or dials on the side of the watch case. When you press it, you can hear the sound of "ding ding dong dong".

The low tone is the time signal, for example: "Dang, Dang, Dang", 3 beeps means 3 o'clock.

Then comes the moment, usually with high and low sounds, for example: "dingdang, dingdang", the second moment.

The next high pitch is to report points, for example: "ding, ding, ding, ding, ding", 5 beeps are 5 minutes, then the current time is 3:35.

Three questions, like the tourbillon and the perpetual calendar, it is a complicated function of a mechanical watch, and it is also one of the biggest challenges in the mechanical watchmaking process: adding a reed device for telling the time in an extremely limited space, sometimes for the sake of melodious sound , Three or more sets of hammer springs must be installed, and many parts are as small as hair-a general minute repeater must have at least more than 500 parts!

Taking the watch out of the box, it feels a bit weighty. It looks a little smaller than the popular version of Patek Philippe, but it weighs more.

The style is not like the curved surface watches that are common before World War II and until now, but a bit of the 21st century flavor.

This is not to say that this watch is "traversing": many top brands produced watches in the 1930s, and after 70 or 80 years, they will still be regarded as 21st century designs.

The leather strap is carefully crafted, but it feels a little hard after wearing it, probably because of the long time, it is estimated that it will become soft with more wearing.

Unconsciously think: "If you still feel uncomfortable after a few days, just go with an original one."

After a closer look, there are no messy small dials on the surface. Apart from the "three questions" and dual calendar functions, there are no other complicated functions that are basically unusable.

And this is obviously a self-winding watch, which is even more remarkable: it is said that the world's first self-winding watch only appeared in 1926, and the early fully automatic watches were more expensive.

Shaking her wrist to feel it, she asked Jenny: "What brand is this watch?"

"Lange."

Jenny was still with that mysterious smile. Zhang Nan felt that there was definitely something wrong here, so she turned her mind: This is not a Swiss brand at all, but a top German watch brand!

However, this brand is gone, and will not reappear until after the reunification of East and West Germany.

Very expensive, really very expensive!

In the 21st century, Lange watches seem to be no less than 100,000 yuan, and models of several million are also common.

I took the watch off and looked at the back side: I just saw some words on the back of the watch, which should not be letters like trademarks.

"Hehe...you finally found out."

"Don't laugh, help me see what these words mean?"

Look carefully at the case on the back of the watch. The letters were originally engraved by hand: there are a lot of letters, two long paragraphs, the font is very small but smooth, and the master-level craftsmanship is estimated to be German: I don’t know German in general~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ Not to mention handwriting.

flamboyant.

At this time, Jenny finally put away the mysterious smile that made Zhang Nan look more and more upset, and said seriously: "This is Sympathiefürdieschwachenistdergr??terespektlosgegenüberderNatur; sympathizing with the weak is the greatest disrespect to nature."

A very cool, very cold sentence!

I immediately felt that this passage seemed familiar, but I just couldn't remember who said it.

"It feels like a famous saying, very cold. Who said it?"

"Of course it's a famous saying, and the person who said this sentence also said another more powerful one: I will let the world remember me for a thousand years!"

At this point, if Zhang Nan didn't know who said this, it would have been a waste of life!

The voice rang for a while, "Adolf Hitler! Is this his watch?!"

"Yes, that paragraph is still in his handwriting. I have seen a lot of copies of Hitler's documents and letters, and I can't go wrong. Besides, no one else would do that except Hitler's own watch.

Furthermore, according to records, Hitler's watches were later customized by Lange, but the record only mentions that he had a Lange tourbillon and that he generally used a pocket watch in the later stages of the war. "

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