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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: "period" wristwatches
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:05:21 GMT
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- Richard Britnell of Salisbury (G.Guth) wrote:
-
- : On the topic of telling the time, just when were the first pocket watches
- : made? I have a feeling that they, in their earliest forms, are not too
- : OOP.
- :
- : Which leads to another question...how did ladies and gentlemen of means
- : tell time in period? I'm especially interested in late period. Was it
- : sundials all the way through?
-
- Primitive watches (hour-hand only) were available by the second
- half of the 16th Century. In addition to pocket watches, they
- were worn on necklaces and other jewelry. The first wristwatch
- we know of is the one recorded as a gift to Queen Elizabeth from
- one of her courtiers, so that's also period (for the Queen of
- England, at least).
-
- -- Nicholas van Leyden
-
-