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Pocket Watch, 1850-1875
Roskell, Robert1850/1875
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Pocket watches were the first mechanical devices to catch Henry Ford's fancy. He made his first successful repair at the age of 13, when he removed the casing on schoolmate Albert Hutchings's watch and extracted a sliver from the works. Hutchings's family donated this watch, believed to be the original, to the Henry Ford Museum in 1933.
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- Title: Pocket Watch, 1850-1875
- Creator: Roskell, Robert
- Date Created: 1850/1875
- Subject Keywords: Ford, Henry, 1863-1947, Hutchings, Albert, Timekeeping, Pocket watches
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=18946
- Object Name: Pocket watch
- Object ID: 33.164.3
- Image ID: THF95541
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Myrta Hutchings
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