Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 15, 2002 at 07:20:52 from 213.210.19.40 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: John's watch posted by Dan V on July 17, 2002 at 12:52:10:
I am pretty sure that it was in the tin box with the barometer. He was treating it as a "chronometer", after all. He did not need to know the time when sailing to meet the Amazons and he would have been well aware of the dangers of taking it sailing.
I am assuming it was a cheap pocket watch; wrist watches were probably too expensive for a child in 1929. Does anyone know?