This wrist-horn is said to have been built in the 1880s for bicycle pilots who needed to warn passers-by that their luxuriant mustache was about to be unfettered to catch a strong Nor’East wind. Wuuuurrrrrrrt! All ahead full, to the Pinstripe Promenade!
No Time For a 19th Century English Bicycle Wrist-Horn & 21st Century Wristcam [Watchismo Times]
Do you mean 1880s? Or is this meant as an example of a wonderful anachronism?
Poppycock!
I did mean “1880s,” #1. I fixered it. Thanks!
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Who’s that dapper swindler out of Tammany Hall?