THE SMALLEST WATCH IN THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2082, 31 August 1885, Page 2

THE SMALLEST WATCH IN THE WORLD.

[New York Sun.] A small gold penholder, resting in a rich velvet case, lay on a joweller's showcase'in John-stroet, last week. The end of the holder was shaped like an elongated cube, and was an inch long. A faint musical ticking that issued from it attracted a customer's attention. The jeweller lifted the holder from the case with a smile, and exhibited s tiny watch dial, one sixteenth of an inch in diametor, set in the side between two other dials almost as small. One dictated the day, and theotherthemonthof the year. The centre dial ticked off seconds, minutes and hours, "This is the smallest watch evermado," the jeweller said, "and the only one of its kind in the world, It took Geneva watchmaker the better part of; two years to fit the parts together so that thoy would work accurately, It has been exhibited in London and Paris,"

Theworksof the watoh'were ao made that they fitted lengthwise in the holder, The mainspring was an elongated coil of steel, fitted to the wheels by a tiny chain, and workedliko an old-fashioned dock weight. The works were wound up by means of a little screw of. gold on the under side of the handle, A gold pen was fitted in the holder, and the jeweller wrote with it. without disturbing tho operations of the fairy watch, '

"What's the price?" the customer asked; "A round SOOdols,"replied thejeweller,