The Strange Journey of John Lennon’s Stolen Patek Philippe Watch
For decades, Jay Fielden writes, Yoko Ono thought that the birthday gift was in her Dakota apartment. But it had been removed and sold—and now awaits a court ruling in Geneva.
Between 1952 and 1985, Patek produced just three hundred and forty-nine of these watches—and no other watchmaker could fit such complexity into a wristwatch until 1985.