![]() I am much obliged by your offer of executing commissions for me in Europe, and shall take the liberty of charging you with one only. Washington replied: Dear Sir, I had the pleasure to receive by the last mail your letter dated the 12th of this month. Morris presumably had asked Washington if he could get him anything while he was doing business in Europe. On November 28, 1778, Washington sent a letter from his home in Mount Vernon to Gouverneur Morris. If you would like to see this watch taken apart and examined, click here to see a video. Pulling out a gold pocketwatch to tell the time would be rather obvious. I imagine this was rather convenient and a more discreet way of telling the time in the days long before one could try to take a discreet look at a wristwatch. This created more of a thud, but the wearer could then feel the repeater in their pocket in order to tell the time and it wouldnt chime so loudly. ![]() Interestingly, this was a dumb repeater in that the hammer hit on the edge of the gold case if activated rather than on a chime. The minute hand appears to have been replaced, but the hour hand may be original. You might be surprised with what some of our presidents had sitting in their pockets and on their wrists.Įarly in 1777 he led his men from Maryland to join Washington in New Jersey.
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