National Museum of American History
Sir Sandford Fleming's Pocketwatch
Nicole, Nielsen & Co. · ca 1880
This watch belonged to Sir Sandford Fleming, chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway. About 1880, Fleming devised a plan for worldwide time zones and had a complicated watch made to reflect both zoned time and local time.
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