This won’t fit into your pocket
and it won’t put you on to the ‘net
but there are so many places you can’t drop it
and it doesn’t mind getting wet.
It doesn’t compete with today
and its digital glossy chronology
but holds to a steady display
of yesterday’s hand-wrought technology.
In gilded and courtly demeanor
it sniffs in aloof pantomime
though a smartphone is somewhat leaner
it’s unmoved by the passing of time.
Thanks yet again to the S.W. Berg Photo Archives.
Oddments 
August 3, 2017 at 8:23 pm
This reminds me of a cuckoo clock we have in the closet. My husband bought it for his parents when he was stationed in Germany. It was handed back to us when they passed. But, alas, it lives in a box because what does one do with one today. Kids can’t even tell time today if it isn’t a digital display. 🙂
August 4, 2017 at 11:14 am
“The Cuckoo Clock in the Closet” sounds like something for Nancy Drew. I realize that things must change, but really a carved cuckoo clock is so much more lively than a digital number. On the other hand, digital numbers don’t drive people batty with their regular soundings-off. I bet it’s a beauty and still a lovely thing to hold on to, even in a box.