Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — A Home-Made Watch. [ARTICLE]

A Home-Made Watch.

The most curious timekeeper, perhaps, that has ever been made in this country was the work of Victor Doriot, who lived at Bristol, Tenn., about twenty years ago. This oddity was a wooden watch. The case was made of 1 trier root, and the inside wheels were made from a piece of old boxwood rule. The face, which was polished until it looked like a slab of the finest ivory, was made from the shoulder blade of an old cow. The springs, of course, were of steel. It was an open-faced affair, with a glass crystal, and was pronounced a fine piece of work by all the watchmakers In the State.