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.
The original high-end Mickey Mouse watch happened by chance when Gerald Genta (the designer of Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak and many others) was commissioned by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner to make ...