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  Time Pieces This article first appeared in IMCoS Journal 1993; Summer 2003; pp. 55-57. Revised December 2021.   I know that besides collecting maps, charts and atlases many collectors also accumulate a wide variety of Cartofacts', i.e. strange and unusual objects that have a map/chart connection. There have been several articles on various unusual objects in previous editions of the IMCoS Journal . My own fascination is with watches. I can hardly resist a watch with a map motif if the price is not astronomical. In the course of the last ten years, I have managed to pick up about the same number of watches, each with a map motive, and a clock.   A wall clock probably started the ball rolling (or should I say the clock ticking). My wife saw the reproduction of Bowles and Carver's `England Bewitched' turned into a clock at a market stall in Covent Garden and that became my next Christmas present (Fig. 1). Bowles and Carver's print, one of a series, was produ

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