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1. This is an application for leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council. The action from which it ultimately stems is - I quote from my judgment given on 24th July this year - "failure to deliver a watch said by the statement of claim to have been sold by the defendant to the plaintiff under an oral contract concluded over the telephone on or about 17th July last year. The plaintiff, a resident of Hong Kong, is a businessman with a keen interest in rare time-pieces, both antique and new, and to