Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-07-31
The Largest Watch In the World.

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At the American Waltham
watch factory, the largest watch
ever designed was recently COM
pleted. To build this gigantic
timepiece cost several thousand
dollars and several weeks time.
Special machinery and tools were
required for its construction. The
watch is model of the new mod
|el l6-sizs Maximus, three-quarter
plate watch, enlarged ten times,
perfect in every detail and az
highly finished as the finest watch.
The diameter of the pillar plate
is IL inches, aud the movement is
q inches thick. The balance
wheel is 6! inches in diameter,
and the Breguet spring which
controls its action is s feet long.
zoos centimeter wide. When run
ming the balance makes vibra-
ton in OF second. The pallet
stones are of sapphire and ex-
quisitely polished. The actuating
or handspring, is % feet long, OFT
centimeters thick and 20 cent?
meters wide. The mammoth mod
lei is as completely jeweled as
watch OF the finest grade. The
plate jewels, which are as large as
the smallest movement made or
about the size of nickel five
cent piece, are fine rubies, about
ten lines in diameter, but pushed
with sapphires. The polish OF
the wheels, pinions aud other
steel work is perfect, and the dam
askeening ON the plates is most
beautiful. The pendant and wind
ing crown are of fine bronze, brill
iantly polished. Every portion is
made on the exsct scale of the
watch it represents. No dial has
been made for this movement, as
It's designed to show not only the
action of the train, but the stem
winding and stem setting mech
anism as we'll. The movement
stands on bronze pedestal and
from its base to the tip of the
winding crown is twenty-six INCH
es.-Scienti6c American.
Occasionally one of Emperor
Williams children shows an in
dication of running to extrava-
gance, but it is speedily repressed
by his august parent. Prince
Adelbert, the third SOB, now Is
years old, was recently given an
establishment Of his own at kiel.
He asked his father for four car
rlage horses, but the emperor
told him to be contented with
two. dis majesty is credited with
saying that to him the most mel
ancholy sight on earth is a prince
for whom life has been exhausted.
His own youth was regulated
economically.
John d. Rockefeller dislikes au-
tomobiles, and, with view of pre-
venting them from trespassing on
his vast domain, called lockwood,
at Pocautico Hills, he has erected
signs on his property ordering su-
tomob!!e owners to keep off his
land The signs bear these words
Automobiles are not allowed on
these grounds Mr.. Rockefeller
has fifty miles of private drive
ways on his estate, many Of which
cover serpentine trails and run
along steep enbankments. Several
times tho millionaires horses were
frightened by the machines, and
this made him decide to shut out
automobile owners from his lands.
Waterman are employed to en-
force the rules.
The London Academy is author
ity for the news that Rudyard
kipling might have been knighted
along with Gilbert Parker and
Conan Doyle, but that he de-
clined the offer. The Academy
further states that Mr. Lecky re-
fused a peerage, contenting him
| self with membership i'm the new