Panerai fanatic Fong Wing Ngai’s private timepiece collection is so big it needs a museum
- 4 years ago
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For many, a stress- and routine-free retired life is the stuff of dreams. But for others, freedom means more time to take on new challenges. The latter could not be a better description of the retired life of Fong Wing Ngai, a watch enthusiast turned museum curator.
The curator of the Macau Timepiece Museum, opened earlier this year, Fong is a self-proclaimed Panerai fanatic and all-round timepiece lover. He has amassed a collection of timepieces in the hundreds over the past two decades, curating a private collection that he describes as “undiscriminating, fun and unusual.”
Fong’s private collection of timepieces, about half of which are now housed inside the museum located behind Macau’s iconic Ruins of St. Paul’s, took two decades to amass but was four centuries in the making. “The oldest timepiece dates back to 400 years ago, I’ve many antique clocks and pocket watches,” he says, as he takes out from his shirt pocket a gold pocket watch with an elaborately engraved case on a gold chain. “This piece dates back to the 1800s,” he says.
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For many, a stress- and routine-free retired life is the stuff of dreams. But for others, freedom means more time to take on new challenges. The latter could not be a better description of the retired life of Fong Wing Ngai, a watch enthusiast turned museum curator.
The curator of the Macau Timepiece Museum, opened earlier this year, Fong is a self-proclaimed Panerai fanatic and all-round timepiece lover. He has amassed a collection of timepieces in the hundreds over the past two decades, curating a private collection that he describes as “undiscriminating, fun and unusual.”
Fong’s private collection of timepieces, about half of which are now housed inside the museum located behind Macau’s iconic Ruins of St. Paul’s, took two decades to amass but was four centuries in the making. “The oldest timepiece dates back to 400 years ago, I’ve many antique clocks and pocket watches,” he says, as he takes out from his shirt pocket a gold pocket watch with an elaborately engraved case on a gold chain. “This piece dates back to the 1800s,” he says.
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