Watch given as gift to Thomas Mann’s favoured grandson emerges
In his diary entry for August 12, 1950, the German writer and Nobel Prize recipient Thomas Mann described a meeting with his daughter-in-law Gret, who had married his youngest son Michael in 1939, and her 10-year-old son Frido in a café in Innsbruck.
Frido has often been described as Mann’s favourite grandson and on this occasion he presented Gret…