"Fusee made excellent pocket watches during the 1700s, this is in great shape. Not very fancy, so it would only go for about $700."
-Expert
Facts[]
- Fact 1: The first pocket watch was created in Germany, 1524, by Peter Henlein.
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- Fact 4: Timekeeping was so essential to early railroad operation in the United States that all engineers and conductors had to carry pocket watches manufactured to "General Railroad Timepiece Standards".
- Fact 5: A transitory type of watch that incorporated features of the pocket watch and the future wrist watch was called a "trench watch", made popular during World War I.