During the reign of Catherine II. of Russia, Kalutin, a peasant, made a musical repeating watch about the size of an egg, which had within it a representation of Christ's tomb, with sentinels on guard. On pressing a spring the stone would be rolled from the tomb, the angels appear, the holy women enter the sepulchre, and the same chant which is sung in the Greek Church on Easter eve accurately performed. The watch is now in the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. _Borrowing Watches._ Watches were so rarely in use in the early time of James I. that it was deemed a cause of suspicion that one was found, in 1605, upon Guy Vaux. Jonson, in his "Alchemist," tells of the loan of one to wear on a particular occasion— And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's. _Striking Watches._ Hon. Mr. Barrington mentions that a thief was detected by watches called "strikers," which he says were introduced in the reign of Charles II.; but repeating watches were worn in the time of Ben Jonson. In his "Staple of News," we read— —It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now stop and rest; Would thou couldst make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more. _Too Many Watches._ Watches were very common in 1638. It is complained in the "Antipodes," a comedy of that year, that —Every clerk can carry The time of day in his pocket. On which account a projector in the same play proposes to diminish the grievance by a —Project against The multiplicity of pocket watches. _Wearing Two Watches._ About 1770 it became the fashion to wear two watches. In a rhyming recipe of that date, "To Make a Modern Fop," appear the lines— "A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, _two watches_ and a snuff-box gilt." The ladies soon adopted the fashion, but as watches were still very expensive, mock watches were often substituted. _Minute Mechanisms._