"There's a little box in the study, and there's enough stuff for you to show off for a lifetime. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

As soon as he heard Jenny's words, Zhang Nan didn't even wear a coat, and took one of the wooden packaging boxes that was not large in size but extremely finely made.

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

As soon as he opened it, a watch with a leather strap appeared in front of him.

Zhang Nan didn't really have much research on the clock, and this watch looked like it was about ninety percent of the fineness, with very few traces of use: the gray-white case, and a tiny protrusion on the side of the knob to adjust the time, like a small dial.

Although Zhang Nan doesn't know much about watches, as soon as he sees this small pluck that shows a little bit, he knows that this watch is not simple!

"These are three questions?"

"Yes, it's three questions. ”

Jenny still maintained a mysterious smile, which made Zhang Nan a little unhappy: not for Jenny, but because of a very unhappy experience in her previous life!

Once again in Hangzhou, when I attended an antique circle party, there was a big guy who liked to show off and wanted to know the time, but he didn't look with his eyes, but listened with his ears!

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

At that time, the small movements of the big guy immediately attracted the attention of others, and there were always curious people, and after some inquiry, I learned that the man was wearing a Patek Philippe "minute repeater" on his hand.

I don't know how much more expensive it is to buy it in Switzerland than an ordinary Ferrari abroad!

350,000 Swiss francs, equivalent to more than 2 million yuan!

A few "jingle bells" made that person the core of the party, this person was a little vanity, Zhang Nan was of course very unhappy in his heart: he was wearing a plum blossom of more than 7,000.

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

The "three questions" of the new production are so expensive, but what about decades ago?

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

This is the platinum case, just this color.

Three questions, three questions, what are the "three questions"?

Not many people know this term if you don't love watches: it represents one of the highest techniques in mechanical watchmaking!

Owners of luxury watches basically have their own refined minute repeaters, which initially seemed to be not to make money, but to prove their technical prowess and to enhance their reputation and international standing.

To put it simply, a minute repeater is a watch that can tell the time, and it is also very convenient: there are buttons or paddles on the side of the case, and when you press it, you can hear the sound of "ding ding dong".

The bass tone is the time, for example: "when, when, when", and 3 rings is 3 o'clock.

This is followed by the announcer, which is generally a combination of high and low tones, such as: "jingling, ding", that is, two quarters (30 minutes).

The next high pitch is the score, for example: "Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding", 5 rings is 5 minutes, then the current time is 3:35.

Minute repeaters, like tourbillons and perpetual calendars, are a complication of mechanical watches, and one of the biggest challenges in mechanical watchmaking: adding a reed mechanism for striking the time in a very limited space, sometimes with three or more sets of hammer springs for the sake of melodious sound, many of which are as small as a hair – a typical minute repeater requires at least 500 parts!

When I took the watch out of the box, it felt a little heavier, and it looked a little smaller than my own popular Patek Philippe, but it weighed more.

It's not like the curved watches that were common before World War II until today, but rather a bit of the 21st century.

This is not to say that this watch is "time-traveling": many of the watches produced by the top brands in the thirties will still be considered 21st century designs in the seventies and eighties.

The leather strap is finely made, but it feels a little hard after wearing it, probably because it has been too long, and it is estimated that it will become soft when you wear it more.

Unconsciously thought: "If you are still uncomfortable in a few days, then simply go with the original one." ”

If you look closely, there are no messy subdials on the surface, and there are no other complications that are basically unusable, except for the "three times" and the double calendar function.

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

Shaking his wrist and feeling it, he asked Jenny, "What brand is this?"

"Lange. ”

Jenny was still smiling mysteriously, Zhang Nan felt that there was definitely something wrong here, and his mind turned: This is not a Swiss brand at all, but a top watch brand in Germany!

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

Very expensive, really, very expensive!

In the 21st century, it seems that Lange and Söhne watches are not less than 100,000 yuan, and millions of models are also common.

I took off the watch and looked at the back of the watch: I just saw that there seemed to be some words on the back shell of the watch, which should not be a letter such as a trademark.

"Hehe... You've finally found out. ”

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

Looking carefully at the back shell of the watch, those letters were originally engraved by hand: there are many letters, two long paragraphs, the font is very small but very smooth, and the master-level craftsmanship is estimated to be German: generally German is not known by himself, let alone handwriting.

The dragon flies and the phoenix dances.

At this time, Jenny finally put away the mysterious smile on her face that made Zhang Nan more and more troubled the more she looked at it, and said seriously: "This is Sympathiefürdieschwachenistdergr??" Sympathy for the weak is the greatest disrespect to nature. ”

It's a very, very cold word!

It immediately felt like this passage was quite familiar in my mind, but I couldn't remember who said it all of a sudden.

"It feels like a famous saying, it's quite cold. Who said that?"

"Of course, it's a famous saying, and the person who said it also said something even more bullish: I will let the world remember me for a thousand years!"

At this point, if Zhang Nan still doesn't know who said this, it will really be a waste of life!

The voices rang out, "Adolf Hitler!

"That's right, that passage is still in his handwriting, and I've seen a lot of photocopies of documents and letters written by Hitler, and I can't be wrong. And no one would do that, except for Hitler's own watch.

According to the records, Hitler's watches were later made in Lange & Söhne, but the records only mention that he had a tourbillon from Lange & Söhne, and that a pocket watch was generally used in the later stages of the war. ”