Show our early watches the first watches were produced in all sorts of fanciful designs with cases shaped like crosses or shells or mandolins says a writer in the washington star A peculiar fash ion was that of a watch case shaped like a skull to remind the owner when he looked at i that time was fleeting and death was dialing di awing near the lovely and unlucky mary queen of scots had a skull shaped watch and in view of her death on the headsman s block t was gruesomely appropriate civaliere Civa liers had swords and poniards with little watches set into the hilts |