Horological social media throws up some strange sights, but few stranger than what turned up on the Instagram feed of vintage–Patek Philippe dealer John Reardon toward the end of summer.
Reardon is a Patek fanatic, but then you would need to be to own the Ref. 3770/1. Few people know what it is; fewer still have the nerve to wear it. Colloquially known as the Nautellipse, it is essentially the forced marriage of two classic Patek Philippe timepieces: the Golden Ellipse of 1968, a sleek, elegant dress watch, and 1976’s Nautilus, the all-conquering steel sports watch. I have been trying to think of a suitable automotive analogy, and the best I could come up with was a mash-up of a Lincoln Town Car and a Lincoln Navigator and call it something like the “Towigator.”
