Mechanical watch with a miniature slot machine

Cory Doctorow 6:10 pm Mon Apr 16, 2007

It's amazing what they're building into mechanical watches these days. For example, an entire working slot machine — with bells!

Just introduced this week at the Geneva SIHH show, this hautegadget has an actual miniaturized mechanical slot machine just above the hands and tourbillon. Each roller has five symbols , hearts, diamonds, spades, horseshoes, and three liberty bells for jackpot. When the arm on the side is pulled, the spin also activates a striking mechanism of chiming gongs – for those vintage casino sounds. While modern barreled watches like Jean Dunand's Shabaka and the vintage rollers of the Patek Cobra incorporate timekeeping to this inventive display, the GP Jackpot represents what one-armed-bandits do best, taking lots of your money.

See also:
History of spy-cam watches
Solid wood pocket-watch from 1900
Pictorial history of kids' watches
History of armored military watches
History of slide-rule wristwatches

Early days of plastic watches
Mechanical "LED watch" from 1970
History of calculator watches

Steampunk watch

Belt-drive watch

Watch guts of great beauty
All-plastic watch movement from the 70s
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