国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 6月27日 22時28分

This unusual watch, originally made to tell time in the dark, made the perfect present for Helen Keller. After losing her hearing and eyesight as a young child, Keller grew up to become an accomplished writer and renowned champion for human rights. She was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
In 1892, when she was twelve, Keller met John Hitz, the superintendent of Alexander Graham Bell's Washington, D.C. establishment for the deaf, the Volta Bureau. Hitz, a retired diplomat, was the proud owner of a Swiss-made "touch watch." This uncommon watch has a case studded around the edge with pins that correspond to the hours on the watch dial. A revolving hand stops at a point between the pins that corresponds to the hour and approximate minute. With the hand and pins as locators, it was possible to feel the approximate time in the dark or—in the case of a diplomat like Hitz—discreetly. Hitz presented the watch to Keller, who prized it and used it her entire life.
Once, in 1952, Keller accidentally left the watch behind in a New York City taxi. She feared it was lost forever. With ads in newspaper lost-and-found columns and the help of the head of the city's pawnbrokers, she recovered her prized possession from a hock shop.
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