What follows, I suppose, is my attempt to capture the place and meaning of a watch that a self-confessed Muggle like me has come to adore: the Arnold & Son Ultrathin Tourbillon, and how it makes me feel. To my eyes, it belongs on the wrist of a quietly confident, Oxbridge-educated, philanthropic, and discerning lady or gentleman – the sort of figure you might notice wearing an unembellished gold ring on the pinky finger of the left hand, find in the fitting room of Huntsman & Sons, or entertaining in the lobby of The Dorchester. Imagine John Jacob Astor, Richard Attenborough, Dame Judi Dench, or Lord Mountbatten.
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