Tag Archives: History of Watches

Zeppelin and the Golden Age of Travel

In the early 1900s Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, also and not surprisingly known as the ‘crazy Count from Lake Constance’, created the large airships we know of as the Zeppelins that made historic passenger flights form Germany. Today, German craftsmanship pays tribute to these bygone days of innovative aviation engineering with a classic brand of […]

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Is this the oldest image of a watch?

Curators at the Science Museum in London have just made an exciting discovery - particularly for those who are interested in the history of measuring time. A painting that was acquired by the museum some 33 years ago has recently been brought out of storage, and a seal containing the Medici family’s coat of arms […]

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