Gustave Eiffel built his tower in 1889 as a temporary structure — a demonstration of what wrought iron could do at height, intended for the Exposition Universelle and slated for demolition in 1909. The radio antenna that saved it from the demolition crews was later used to transmit the time signal that synchronized France; the tower survived on utility. In monochrome on the Leica M11, the tower returns to something like its original photographic existence: the first photographs made of it in 1889 were black and white by necessity, and in those images the lattice reads as pure graphic structure — diagonals and horizontals and verticals resolving into a form that does not look engineered so much as drawn. The "Vintage" in the title is not a processing style but a reading of the tower: the B&W treatment strips away the century of color postcards and restores the structure to the visual language in which it was first understood. The lattice, in this light and in these tones, could be 1889.