J. Player & Son "J.P. Morgan Watch" Smartwatch Watch Face

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Music: Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, "Flight of the Bumblebee", 1899-1900, performed by The US Army Band.
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The timepieces that held the title of “most complicated watch ever”, as well as their famous owners, are mostly well known - save for the long-lost English grand complication commissioned by banker John Pierpont ("J. P.") Morgan. Morgan was a great collector of watches, and his grandest timepiece was a double-dial, astronomical pocket watch made by J. Player & Son. It was the most complicated English watch ever made, and one of the most complicated watches in the world at the time of its completion (perhaps behind only the L. Leroy & Son "Leroy 01").
Though Morgan’s watch has long been surpassed in complexity by other hands, and it bears the name of a defunct English brand, it has arguably the greatest provenance of all super-pocket watches. Unlike James Ward Packard or Henry Graves, who were both wealthy, accomplished, and little known individuals outside their fields, Morgan is still the best known banker in history; the biggest bank in the United States today bears his name.
For his ultimate watch, Morgan turned to an English watchmaker, J. Player & Son. Morgan’s grand complication pocket watch was ordered only a few years before he passed away, and completed in 1909.
Alongside brands like Frodsham, Edward Dent, and Samuel Smith & Sons, J. Player & Son was one of the preeminent watchmakers in the fading years of English watchmaking in the early 20th century. But it was the only one based outside of London, with its premises in Coventry, a city about two hours from the capital.
After Morgan’s death in 1913, the watch was presumably sold. By the late 1940s, it was owned by Benjamin Mellenhoff, the then head of the watch repair department at Tiffany & Co. in New York, according to contemporary accounts in the HIA Journal, the magazine of the Horological Institute of America. The last known whereabouts of the Morgan grand complication date to 1974, according to Richard Stenning, the co-owner of Charles Frodsham. It was in the possession of Jan Skala, an antique watch and jewelry dealer who had a shop on West 47th Street in New York City. Where the watch sits today is a mystery. [ Reference: watchesbysjx.com/2019/07/j-pl... ]