Boettger & Wittig Watch and Tool Demagnetizer (c. 1902) Models on Display:Boettger & Wittig Watch and Tool Demagnetizer causing the watch to run

causing the watch to run wildly fast or stop working entirely

including a speed adjustment knob

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Boettger & Wittig Watch and Tool Demagnetizer (c. 1902) Models on Display:Boettger & Wittig Watch and Tool Demagnetizer causing the watch to runBoettger & Wittig Watch and Tool Demagnetizer The Boettger & Wittig Demagnetizer, patented in 1902, was an essential technological invention designed to protect the mechanical watches of the early electrical age. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the rapid rise of factory electric motors and early appliances created invisible magnetic fields that frequently "magnetized" the delicate steel springs inside pocket watches. When this happened,