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The ABCs of Time traces the history of German watchmaking

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Monochrome Watches looks at German watchmaking from Peter Henlein’s early 16th-century portable clocks in Nuremberg to the wider evolution of the country’s watch culture. The feature explains how these first “pocket watches” became known as Nuremberg Eggs and frames Germany as an early center in the miniaturisation of timekeeping.

Summary written by WristBible's AI editor from the publishers' reporting.

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