A different Monday Tilley Watch, as we’re midway through a double issue time frame. So, instead of looking at a brand new issue of The New Yorker, we’ll look at an honest-to-goodness Tilley watch.
The Spill likes to mess around with various “Tilley” usages (The Monday Tilley Watch, The Tilley Watch Online), so when this actual Tilley watch showed up online the other day, I got hold of it for the archives. I’d never seen one before. I’m not a “watch” person — don’t wear one; don’t have a clue about the watch world, but I’m an admirer of objets d’Tilley.
This “product” is amazingly well done. Eustace is presented without fanfare — how wonderful to see him appear sans modern adornment or tweaking. The band, as you can see, features 13 vintage New Yorker covers, including this beauty, from March 7, 1925:
and this one from May 11, 1929: 
Both of these covers are by Rea Irvin, and…here’s another fun thing about the design of this watch: all of the watchband covers are by Rea Irvin. It’s not just a Tilley watch, it’s an Irvin watch!
The dates of the covers on the band are: March 7, 1925, June 5, 1926, May 11, 1929, June 1, 1929, March 1, 1930, October 4, 1930, July 14, 1934, December 25, 1937, July 12, 1939, July 22, 1939, March 25, 1946, and June 7, 1947.
Adweek reported on the watch back in September of 2009, in this story by Stephanie Murg: “What Time Is It, Eustace Tilley? Time for A New Yorker Wristwatch”
— My thanks to Steve Stoliar for unearthing the Adweek piece, and to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for additional research.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Today’s Daily Cartoon is by Bob Eckstein, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007.
Here’s Mr. Eckstein’s A-Z entry:
Bob Eckstein (photo above courtesy of the artist) Born, New York, NY, Feb. 27 1963. New Yorker work: July 2007 – . Author of The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments From Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers (Penguin Random House, 2016).