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wristwatch with single button chronograph, Longines, 1910,by courtesy of Antiquorum.com
Leon Tolstoi at his desk Portrait by Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (1908).

History of Watchmaking

Patents for wrist-chronographs were filed in Berne.

World history

1908. Henry Ford assembled his first Ford T cars.
Louis Blériot (1872-1936) made the first flight across the Channel on July 25th, 1909.
Japan annexed Korea.
Foundation of Tel Aviv.

Swiss history

1907. Foundation of the National Bank.

Art and Culture

The Russian author Leo Tolstoy was found dead at the railway station in the rural town of Astapovo.
Wassily Kandinsky’s first abstract paintings.

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