page_title: Watch 1505
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Watch 1505 / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Peter-Henlein-Brunnen Juli 2010 03
context_page_description: The Watch 1505 is the world's first watch. The watch was crafted by its German inventor, the locksmith and watchmaker Peter Henlein from Nuremberg, during the year 1505, in the early German Renaissance period, as part of the Northern Renaissance. However, other German clockmakers were creating miniature timepieces during this period, and there is no definite evidence Henlein was the first. It is the oldest watch in the world that still works. The watch is a small fire-gilded copper sphere, an oriental pomander and combines German engineering with Oriental influences.
  In 1987, the watch reappeared at an antiques and flea market in London. The initial price estimation for this watch is between 50 and 80 million dollars.
caption: Peter-Henlein-Brunnen (Nuermberg) – built and dedicated in 1905
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