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- From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: "period" wristwatches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.013256.24297@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:32:56 GMT
- References: <BxLor9.HKC@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1992Nov17.025224.21032@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <ewright.722106321@convex.convex.com>
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- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- In article <ewright.722106321@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- >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
-
- Before everybody and their brother uses this as an excuse to wear thier Timex
- to SCA events, let me point out that Elizabeth's watch, and most watches up
- until the mid 1700's and later, were Verge and Foliot escapements. Most modern
- watches are cylinder escapements (and the rare chronometer escapement),
- and are thus 1800's and after...
-
- So unless you happen to have such an escapement, it ain't period so put
- it away... :)
-