Timepieces With Tales Behind Them as Selected by Our Watch Club
Every month we solicit stories that get to the joy of watch collecting. These are four of our faves.
Adam Goldston’s Audemars Piguet Royal Oak chronograph
Source: APL
Each month the Bloomberg Pursuits Watch Clubnewsletter invites readers to submit a story about a timepiece in their own collection. Some stories are about skyrocketing investment value, while others are touching accounts of passing on traditions. The relationships between wearer and watch always underscore the intimate, lasting appeal of this quirky hobby. Here are four of our favorites.
Mario Schlosser, co-founder and chief technology officer of insurer Oscar Health Inc., sent in the story of his watch from the avant-garde maker Ressence.
“It was the very first ‘Grail Watch,’ where Wei Koh from Revolution magazine designs/commissions weird watch collaborations,” he explained in an email. The trick of Ressence watches is that they don’t have hands; the time and other indicators are interlocking disks that turn flat on the dial.