watch shepherd / pillar clock sundial

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watch Shepard / Pillar clock / Reloj De Pastor - Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century style This Shepherd watch (also known as a pillar clock or cylindrical ) is a type of dial that measures time by the position of the sun. The size of such watches usually small, it is for this reason that is generally seen as a portable sundial despite needing a fixed layout for latitude. The term pastor must use sticks with traces of these clocks were shepherds in the Pyrenees . These kinds of watches became very fashionable in the period from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.