Both of these watches are connected to the most significant era link in aviation. The Longines Weems watch is tied to the Golden Age of aviation while link the Omega was actually used in WWII and then decommissioned and link sold to a civilian. Their caseback engravings tell a story, and Higgins fills us in.

This is a very special Patek Philippe. And while you could say that about nearly link every watch in this catalog this lot just hits differently. Where other lots are about rarity hype and the thrill of exclusive esoterica this Patek ref. 1503 from 1941 has a unique provenance. It was once owned by Simon Wiesenthal a Jewish Austrian gentleman and Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life's work to hunting down and bringing to trial fugitive Nazi war criminals in the link decades after World War link II.