“I don’t know about the settling part Morris.  Shane never says anything about commitments.”  I chuckle.

Shane gives me a dirty look and says “Stop ganging up on me!”  Then she turns to Morris and asks “Is the item ready?”

“Yes, I will take you to it right away.”  Morris leads us to the bank’s vault. 

There is a big empty table in the middle of the vault where he asks us to wait.  Inside the vault, there are many drawers each with their own locks. He takes a big steel suitcase and gently places it on the table, he holds a key and Shane takes hers out and they put the keys into a key hole each and turn them simultaneously.  I hear something clicked inside the suitcase.

“Take your time Ms McCutcheon.  Just ring this bell when you are finished and I will return.”  Morris finishes his tasks and leaves us alone in the vault.

“Are you ready?”  Shane is very excited.

“Show me already!”  I cannot contain my curiosity anymore.  She has definitely got me interested in what’s in the suitcase.

“Here!”  She opens the suitcase slowly, revealing a medium size black box.  She holds the box with one hand and motion for me to finish the task.  I carefully remove the lid and let out a ‘wow’.

It’s a magnificent gold pocket watch inside. 

“This is beautiful!” I exclaim. She encourages me to hold it in my hand. 

“It’s heavy too, must be expensive, right?”  I ask her after a few moments in awe.

“This is an $18 million gold watch.” She says as if she had purchased a $18 dollar watch!  Unbelievable! I quickly put in back in the box, suddenly very afraid of breaking it.

“It’s is the most complicated watch that has ever been made by Patek Philippe in 1933. 

It features 24 complications. Complications are mechanical functions of the watch other than the hours, minutes and seconds. They included a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky.  It was sold for $11 million in 1999 and now you are looking at the latest proud owner of this watch.” She explains the history of this watch to me in detail.