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One of the oldest images of a mechanical watch found in Florence

October 19th, 2009 link to (permalink)

This charming portrait of Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence, shows a man about town holding his nice new fancy gold watch. Amazingly, however, this portrait was painted in 1574 which means German or northern watchmakers were plying their wares as far as Italy during this period.

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