HODINKEE: Gary Shteyngart Quotes Eric Wind on Patek Philippe Reference 3940s

Author and watch collector Gary Shteyngart recently contributed to HODINKEE’s latest column ‘Watch Of The Week’. Shteyngart wrote about his fascination with the Patek Philippe Reference 3940. Within the article, Shteyngart quoted his friend and watch confidant Eric Wind on finding white gold examples that are in exceptional condition and include box and papers.   

Shteyngart wrote: “My buddy Eric Wind tells me that finding a 3940 in non-over-polished condition is possible but not that easy, with box and papers even harder. As someone who survived the '80s and '90s this makes perfect sense – we were too blitzed out of our minds to save anything.”

Read the article in its entirety below:

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-patek-philippe-thats-perpetually-on-gary-shteyngarts-mind

Wind has had the pleasure in helping curate a number of watches within the author’s collection, including his Rolex GMT-Master reference 1675 with gilt, glossy dial and NASA provenance (read more about it in this Wall Street Journal piece by Gary) and Rolex Explorer reference 1016 with gilt, glossy dial. You can see some of these timepieces within his Talking Watches episode below (or read the linked article from 2019).

Learn about the author’s forthcoming novel "‘Our Country Friends"‘ below:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606647/our-country-friends-by-gary-shteyngart/