An interesting story surfaced last month as art experts discovered what they thought may be the world’s oldest painting to feature a watch.

The painting (pictured above) shows Italian nobleman Cosimo l de’Medici holding what looks like a watch and is estimated by curators at the Science Museum to be 450 years old.

Curator at the Science Museum , Rob Skitmore says of the piece “The watch itself would have been a virtuoso piece at that time, probably made in southern Germany, and the picture also shows its separate alarm mechanism that was used with it at night.”

It is know that Cosimo was a patron of science and technology so it is all the more plausible that he would own a watch of this kind.

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