Monday, October 19, 2009

Oldest Watch

The BBC published an interesting item today featuring the oldest known depiction of a watch in a 450 year old painting of Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence holding a gold pocket watch.
 
According to the article, the portrait was painted around 1560, and the first watches had begun to appear around 1500.  To read the article, click here.

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