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Sarp Vahabi

Sarp Vahabi collects Reversos for the reason the watch has always invited: the blank reverse, and what people chose to put on it. Most of those engravings are private — an initial, a date, a message meaningful to one person and unreadable to everyone since. Occasionally one preserves something much larger, and the pleasure of the hunt lies in recognising which is which.

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stories/sarp-titulescu-front.jpgReverso monoface, steel — dial signed Golay Fils & Stahl front
stories/sarp-titulescu-back.jpgReverso monoface, steel — dial signed Golay Fils & Stahl back
The Diplomat’s Reverso
Reverso monoface, steel — dial signed Golay Fils & Stahl

An early steel Reverso found through an Istanbul dealer, its case back engraved with a signature and a date: 29·X·934. The signature belonged to Nicolae Titulescu, and the date was the day Atatürk received him in Ankara.

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