Time, We Take The Knowledge Of It For Granted,

if you want to know the time, 

top 4 photographs www.peterhenlein.de via Quill & Pad, a look at the top of your mobile, or the bottom right of your computer or lap top, and there is always your wristwatch of course! and there is the time, but what of the world's allegedly first potable watch? apparently this is it,

 

bought at a London flea market for just £10 in a box of bits by a watchmaker apprentice in 1987,

there is a huge story behind the watch, 

at first thought a forgery, the apprentice in 2002 sold it, the new owner sold it too, doubts always in the background about its province, but expert research examination of the individual elements have led the researchers to believe this Pomander Watch was also most likely Henlein’s personal watch, Peter Henlein, who was born between 1480 and 1485 in Nuremberg, had not yet become a master locksmith (watchmakers did not officially exist yet), the formal guild rules of the time forbid him to sign any work he did. Therefore, he apparently hid his signatures,

painting above and detail below Mutualart, a portrait Of Jan Gerritz. Van Egmond Van De Dijenborgh, by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 

the enlargement clearly showing the watch, bought for £10 in 1987 now worth according to some estimates, its current value is between 30 and 50 million euros! for the full and fascinating story have a look here, I hope the apprentice received a good price for it!