Welcome back to an original feature, My First Grail Watch.? In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. (ABTW): ?Who are you and what is your relationship to the watch industry? Hartmut Kraft (HK): ?I am the German-American Watch Collector turned Industry Executive that everybody simply refers to as the H, President of Maurice Lacroix North America.ABTW: ?What was your?first?grail?watch?HK: ?A Patek Calatrava Ref. 3919. ?I saw a black and white ad in a German newspaper when I was 14 years old and it made me fall in love with watches as beautifully valuable objects.ABTW: ?Was there ever a time in your life when you could afford it? HK: ?Yes, in my prior career as a corporate attorney of a global US law firm.ABTW: ?What did you like so much about the watch?HK: ?The understated simplicity, the hobnail bezel, the proportions of the small seconds hand, the expression of value that this timepiece embodied.ABTW: ?Did you ever get it?HK: ?No. ?By the time I could afford it, I had moved on. ?I ended up getting married to many other watches, but never this one, the first watch love of my life. [...]
