WATCHES HAVE A tendency to lead one down rabbitholes. Sometimes these are predictable – digging into the history of a particular movement or casemaker – but the best are utterly unexpected. When I picked up an old brochure from 1938 – The Watch Book – produced by a firm I’d only vaguely heard of, Bravingtons, I’d no idea it would lead to searching London for lost buildings and even finding a connection to an iconic WW1 image.
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