Sometimes
“fake news” die
hard.
Thus the one which attributes the invention of the pocket watch to the German watchmaker Peter Henlein dates back to… 1547. It was in 1547 that Johann Neudörfer cites a certain Andreas Heinlein, one of the first to have invented as a small clocks in small cases.
What is called the Nuremberg Egg, or the Pomander, because of its shape and size, was it a pocket watch?
In fact, it was only at the end of the 19th century that the golden legend of Peter Henlein, inventor of the pocket watch, began to spread ...
Blois, watchmaking capital
Too bad for the Frenchman Julien Coudray, forgotten in history and yet a genius watchmaker.
It is to him that we owe the first portable watch ever seen in France, and undoubtedly at the same time the first to be able to really fit in a pocket.
Even if, in this case, it was two daggers integrating a watch in their pommel, offered to the King of France, François 1er, in person.
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