Today's Watch is the Raymond Weil Gentleman's Reply
Description: The Gentleman's Reply is one of the earliest watches designed by the now area-famous Raymond Weil. This fine watch features a solid gold bezel, a handsome black strap, and hand-stamped roman numerals for each hour. This modern watch also features a date counter, precision hour and minute hands, and a rudimentary GPS.
The bezel and lugs are a single piece of solid gold, hand-smelted by an Irish blacksmith. The unassuming black strap is in fact cut from black dragonhide, tanned and cured by a blind watch strap maker in an unnamed town in southern England.
History: Dan obtained this watch during one of his many tomb raids in South America. It is a little-known fact that many ancient South American tribal chieftains of various descent would collect timepieces, believing that watches were storage containers for the very fabric of time itself. While plundering the riches of an ancient burial chamber, the intrepid Dan Porter stumbled upon the Raymond Weil Gentleman's Reply, which was strapped to a long-dead tribesman whose identity has been lost to the annals of time.
Upon return from his journey, Dan found the watch stuffed in his sack of riches and became rather transfixed by both the fine design and elegant features. It is said that Dan was wearing this watch when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2001. The Raymond Weil Gentleman's Reply remains one of Mr. Porter's premiere timepieces to this day.
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