I mean, come on, I’m doing calligraphy now too ? 🤪
I know it’s not period correct, but I think it looks olde tyme, and it helps me ID all my different combinations of powders/charge, bullets/lube and mfg date.
I mean, come on, I’m doing calligraphy now too ? 🤪
I know it’s not period correct, but I think it looks olde tyme, and it helps me ID all my different combinations of powders/charge, bullets/lube and mfg date.
I mean, come on, I’m doing calligraphy now too ? I know it’s not period correct but, it looks cool to me, and it helps me ID all my different combinations of powders/charge and bullets/lube.
Granted, it’s not a big deal to remove that case crystal to access the time setting lever, but did they just make sure that it was wound constantly? What if you were prone to forgetting to wind your watch? You would have to spin that thing open every darn day. 🤪 I guess it’s also more of a deeper question how people interacted with time around the year 1900. Were they OK being consistently a few minutes off all the time compared to one another? Heck, I remember as a kid you would pick up the phone and dial the operator and ask for the time, and that was considered the time standard. Maybe somebody knows of a cool book out there about this stuff. Like how much one of these watches cost, and how common it was for people to carry them. I can’t imagine a construction worker would have one of these in his pocket, it would get destroyed, whether it was in a pants pocket or a vest pocket. And would a construction worker need a watch anyway? Who needed a watch in 1900? Anyway, just some of my thoughts and musings as a result of this little machine.