WATCHES WERE FIRST USED
Wm .'■ * . w (Copied by Eva Moody, Papnkura.) The precise year of the invention or the name of the invent6r of watches is not known for certain;. ; the watch said to have 'been in the possesm «ion of Robert Bruce {(about 1310), the H existence of which,lhoweyer, is doubtful, the earliest existing watch appears to be one bearing the date of 1541, which I was preserved in the r museum of Sir Ashton Lever. m-\ 'i . f Watches seem originally' to have come from Nuremberg and were known as Nuremberg eggs. Peter Hale, a German mechanic, is credited with their invention about' 1477. Watches were first used in astronomical observations by Pufbach in 1500. Some of the oldest watches struck the hours, and it is related,how the thieves who had stolen the watches' df Charles V. and Louis XI. were detected by their ill-gotten gains "striking" while in their possession. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 22
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