The World's Largest Wristwatch

[The Sultan of SoWhat]

From The New Yorker, June,26, 1954:

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[MoT]

From The New Yorker, June,26, 1954:


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So like, standard size for me.

[TheJohnP]

Invicta has been making watches for a long time.

[cortman]

That's hilarious! I love that they seem to have just upsized a regular mechanical movement, now with jewels that are actually probably worth more than the whole apparatus lol.

[MoT]

That's hilarious! I love that they seem to have just upsized a regular mechanical movement, now with jewels that are actually probably worth more than the whole apparatus lol.

My guess is it was an inexpensive German clock movement in a custom case. Quite a few companies used to make huge, novelty wall clocks that looked like wristwatches, and I believe Swatch occasionally still does.

It's too bad there are no pictures.

A Swatch one found while searching Google:

[cortman]

That's hilarious! I love that they seem to have just upsized a regular mechanical movement, now with jewels that are actually probably worth more than the whole apparatus lol.

My guess is it was an inexpensive German clock movement in a custom case. Quite a few companies used to make huge, novelty wall clocks that looked like wristwatches, and I believe Swatch occasionally still does.

It's too bad there are no pictures.

A Swatch one found while searching Google:

Do large clock movements use jewels?

[MoT]

That's hilarious! I love that they seem to have just upsized a regular mechanical movement, now with jewels that are actually probably worth more than the whole apparatus lol.

My guess is it was an inexpensive German clock movement in a custom case. Quite a few companies used to make huge, novelty wall clocks that looked like wristwatches, and I believe Swatch occasionally still does.

It's too bad there are no pictures.

A Swatch one found while searching Google:

Do large clock movements use jewels?

Not usually. I would assume in the article watch/clock they were purely decorative to continue the oversized theme of the rest of the piece.