This article describes a personal account of owning and researching a sunrise-sunset watch, a type of astronomical timepiece that became fashionable in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The author, George Foster, details acquiring his watch in 1946 and his subsequent efforts to document it, including comparison with a similar watch owned by Oscar T. Lang. The article provides a detailed description of the watch's dial, which features indications for sunrise, sunset, month, day, hours, and minutes, with a gilt sun on a wheel and blued steel shutters. It also mentions the watch's internal mechanism and the general utility of such watches for travel planning.
Historical Dials