Arizona citizen., 1878-07-12
AN ARTISTIC ARIzON1AN.
The Remarkable Watch shat was Purchased by a mimer-whO
 is The Man?

tended the Centennial Exhibition ai
 Philadelphia ia 1876. probably there
 are some who remember seeing in the
 Swiss section a remarkable timepiece
 made by M. H. L. Matile, the famous
 watchmaker of Locle, Switzerland.
 Those who do will also recollect that
 this watch, whiGh represented the high
 est possible type of its class, rivaling
 in it's intricacies the celebrated Stras-
 burg clock, attracted a great deal of
 attention, not only on accuunt of the
 wonderful mechanism displayed in its
 construction, but from the fact that it
 was valued at S2000. The watch, which
 Mark Twain thought ought 10 have
 been allowed to vote, provided its sex
 was of the righs kind, has, since It's ex-
 hibition at Philadelphia, had some
 what interesting history. It was about
 the size of an ordinary gentlemau's
 time -piece-a stem -winder, of course and was minute repeater. striking on
 musical bells the hour, the halfhour,
 the quarter and the number of minutes
 that elapsed of the unexpired quarter
 In addition to this, it told the time to
 the fifth of a second; and, by means
 of double chronograph arrangement
 noted the passage of two distinct events
 or occurrences at the same moment timing two horses, for instance, start
 ing at different instants. IL was cal endar also, showing the days of the week, of the month and the month of the year, and by means of wheel
 which made fourth of revolution in 8 year noted the quadrennial recurrence of the 29th of February, when leapl year brings that day into being. Final ly, as if overlapping all the other triumphs in its mechanism, it showed the phases of the moon, as that lunli- nary presents them, by means of al diminutive moon on a wee horizon The watch had been tested at the Ob- Of Neuchatel for period covering forty days close comparison and was an exact time e-keeper. AL though Matile had spent two years in its construction, and notwithstanding 1t was known to be the finest piece off of its kind in existence, when it was offered for sale in Phila- lelphia for 5000, there was no oneI among the nabobs of that city who felt rich enough to buy it. It's owners sfierwsra fpoS if to New York, but there also no one felt we'll enough off To purchase so desirable luxury; and.
 finally, having run the gauntlet of all
 .he prying eyes Tn Americas two great
 sst cities, Il was brought to San Fran CISCO for tue examination of the mill-l onaries of California, and exhibited n the cases of Kearny-street jewelry store. Here for some time it was threat ened with banishment-for a dilapi- lated stock market and uncertain crops had rendered capitalists more 'elf-denying than usual-qnlil one day. m Arizona miner, fresh from theI riumphs of a strike" and loaded with the root of all evil, appeared in front of the previously mentioned ewelry store. With him to see was iol possess. And as 5000 is not much bigger 10 a man who digs his where with from the ground than a dime isl 10 ordinary people, this denizen of Ari- Zona's unexplored wilds planked down
 he money and carried off the prize
 When they read their Chronicle this our millionaries will probably envy him, for unquestionably had capital been more abundant the watch would have staid here After theI ArizonIan had purchased few more lnrecognized San Francisco wonders he will be able 10 take the "boys" off Que Horse Gulch by storm.-San Fran cisco Chronicle