Westerns. Despite what we see in movies and in numerous dusty old TV series about the Wild West, the wild…
Category: Antique pocketwatch
Gandhi’s Zenith alarm pocket watch
Their extreme reliability has accompanied the most breathtaking and noblest of conquests – some of them spectacular one-off achievements, and…
Duc d’Orléans Breguet Sympathique to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
The only thing rarer than this magnificent Breguet Sympathique clock is how often we feature clocks on Click Tempus. This…
Betrayed by a pocketwatch: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
You have to feel sorry for Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido. He was the Ronnie Biggs of his day.…
Captain Scott and his 30 hour waterproof pocketwatch
Friday, December 1st 1911 – Camp 27 Lat. 82º 47′: The ponies are tiring pretty rapidly. It is a question…
President Lincoln and the secret message in a pocketwatch
This story is 2.5 years old or 150.5 years old depending on which way you look at it, but whichever…
How to buy a watch for the man who has everything
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You’ve got to pick a pocket or two
Whether you’re a dedicated wrist watch wearer or you just rely on a 21st century pocket watch in the shape…
Is time up for the pocket watch?
Pocket watch past One of the earliest references of a ‘pocket clock’ was in November 1492 when Italian clockmaker Bartholomew…
The world’s most expensive pocket watch ever sold
In every area of endeavour there are those who will settle for nothing but the biggest, the best, or the…