Coach Watches

“A carriage ride is fun, a carriage ride is beautiful…” Actually, a journey with a carriage was often anything but fun. Reports from the eighteenth century tell of wagons falling over and being thoroughly shaken. Of course, that also placed high demands on the watches that were taken along. The objects, seemingly large pocket watches, were well packed and probably hung in the wagons or stored in pockets. Should the time not be visible, one could pull on the cord hanging on the watch, this released the striking mechanism and struck the hours that had passed for the travellers.