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‘Watch’ Painting By American Artist Gerald Murphy On Display In Dallas Museum Of Art

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A visit to Dallas, Texas gifted me with a surprise: I came across a very large painting simply entitled ‘Watch’ at the Dallas Museum of Art. Further inquiry into its painter, Gerald Murphy, revealed a fun historical anecdote and a bit of a mystery. Why did Murphy paint a giant Cubist impression of two watches in 1925, and which watches were they?

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Larcum Kendall and K1: The Greatest Watchmaker and Watch You have (Probably) Never Heard Of – Reprise

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You may have heard of a few or more of the following historical people and events: Thomas Mudge, George Graham, John Harrison, the Longitude Prize, Captain James Cook, and the mutiny on the ‘HMS Bounty.’ However, you are less likely to have heard the name of a horologist who played a pivotal role in all of the above: Larcum Kendall (1719–1790). Come with me on a worldwide adventure involving timekeeping and history.

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Time Travel at Sea: How the SS Warrimoo was in Two Different Days, Two Different Months, Two Different Years, Two Different Seasons, and Two Different Centuries – All at the Same Time!

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The SS Warrimoo would be long forgotten but for an unusual story of how the ship managed to navigate to a position in which it simultaneously existed in four different hemispheres and two different centuries. Ian Skellern shares the ships story here.