Written from the 22nd century by prominent historian.
Few objects are as recognisable today, in the 22nd century as the 2016 TW Steel watches which stands alongside the Magna Carta, Mona Lisa and Crown Jewels for iconic fame.
Created as a simple but beautiful oversized steel watch by the popular Dutch watch company, the sapphire coated face, automatic mechanism and cap covered hook made a fine looking time-telling machine when released in 2016.
They would have remained merely that until just after noon one July in the early 21st century with the swift destruction of an entire city. All that was recovered from the smoldering 25 mile crater were two TW Steel watches, their safety secured by a sturdy case.
The watches came to symbolise that apocalyptic event that reshaped the world.
Their elevation to fame and desire is cloaked in some mystery, but the watches’ theft in a heist from the British Museum where on loan ten years later raised awareness in the public imagination.
In the ensuing five years until they were recovered, rumours and myths grew about the good fortune and power it bestowed its holder whereupon a fierce bidding war broke out among a handful of the world’s richest individuals and institutions which resulted in its sale as one of the most expensive objects in the world.
Its story is immortalised in this iconic tale by Oscar Finch...
Passersby were oblivious that in a month these two watches would be all that survived the city's great apocalypse and a century later bought by a collector for the price of a thousand houses.
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