Destined for the 1984 Salon Montres et Bijoux, Genta’s Mickey Mouse timepieces were a step too far for a conservative Swiss watch industry, and the watches were forcibly removed from view.

and more ‘how come it took so long?’ Character watches have been around almost from the beginning. Ingersoll’s famous Mickey Mouse watch from 1933 wasn’t even the first, and there’s hardly a comic ...