Show FIRST WATCH EVER MADE it Ws of iron ad I 1 stul in anler about three hundred and seventy five years ao the first watch was made and it is still in running order clocks were made long before watches the year after christ beier about the time when clocks with wheel works the power being given by hanging weights were first made but these timepieces time pieces ware stationary later on smaller clocks were made but it was not until the beginning of the sixteenth I 1 century that an ingenious locksmith of nuremberg constructed a portable watch made entirely of iron A private collection recently brought to new york from berlin contains the first watch that was ever made and one that is still in working order an iron vatch of peter bienlein now universally accepted as the inventor of the pocket watch who was a locksmith of nuremberg and was arrn in 1480 the present watch was made certainly not later than 1520 the works are entirely of iron the back oi the case and cover which are of bronze and the dial are beautifully ornamented with arabe saes of ingenious design cut into the surface and delicately chased the dial is divided into twelve hours but has nu minute marks on the spaces abaye the figure 13 there is a small thorn and above each af pf the other figures a small knob for convenience of feeling the time at night the early watches had but one band the hour hand and the mainspring of hardened iron had no casing but was merely conned by four pillars supporting the back plate |