This watch is so rad.
The story goes that a Cesar DeTray, a wealthy businessman and friend of Jacques-David LeCoultre, grandson of the company’s founder, approached the watchmaker with the type of problem that is unique to the idle rich. He has been playing a great deal of polo with British officers stationed in India, a needed a timepiece that would be able to withstand a strike from an errant mallet. LeCoultre’s referred the request to his lead designer Alfred Chauvot, who devised a tank shaped watch with a swiveling case that could be flipped around without removing the watch, exposing instead a thick pane of solid gold that safely encased the watch’s inner workings.