Unique... on the face of it
“In 20 years I have never seen anything quite like it,” says auctioneer Richard Bromell of Sherborne’s Charterhouse. “It has a central dial for Greenwich which is surrounded by 11 smaller dials telling the time in the various countries. Having originally been presented to a Victorian relative [of the vendors] who built railways for a living, he would have been able to keep track of time with all his business interests.”
Of the 12 cities listed, included are Port Natal, Sidney (sic), Madras, New York, Sevastopol, Calcut…