I thought the story about the Shakespeare portrait would probably be the best story of the week, until I saw the story about Abe Lincoln's pocket watch: How an otherwise-anonymous watch repairman told his family that he had etched a secret message in Abe's watch on the day he learned that the rebels had fired on Fort Sumter ... how he had related the story to the New York Times as an 84-year-old in 1906 ... how a descendant had researched the tale and convinced the Smithsonian to open the watch ...
... and how, by God, the message was actually there, with the watch repairman's name to clinch the deal.
They'll be arguing for generations about whether that portrait really shows Shakespeare, but Jonathan Dillon's descendants now know that he really did what he said he did.
And, on top of all that, it's a beautiful watch.
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