Gs Tp Fried Eggs Watch

The Fried Eggs watch takes its dial layout from a compass of the type used by the British Ordnance Survey. Compass points have been replaced with large numbers at 12,3,6, and 9, with a full railway minutes track and dashes at the half-hours. The unnumbered hours are marked with ‘fried eggs’, filled off-centre with thick egg yolk paint, echoing the design of the markers on Universal Genève’s iconic Polerouter Submariner watches of the early 1960s. The custom-milled surgical steel case is quad-screwed with a bubble back, finished with linear brushing on the sides, radial brushing on the back, and mirror polishing on the thruppenny bezel, inspired by a British thruppenny bit’ (three pence coin), which was dodecagonal from 1936 until its withdrawal in 1971. The twelve points of the bezel line up with the hour indices. The gently twisted bombe lugs are half drilled- the lug holes on the crown side are only semi drilled, while the lugs on the left side are fully drilled. This anachronistic d