I really enjoy finding old items that don’t seem to fit at first. This item was the perfect example of an item that didn’t make sense when first found. When I first saw it, I thought it resembled nothing more than a broken pocket watch with a very unusual hand-drawn face. When you turn the crown and allow it to be wound up, the hand will spin and will tick for awhile and stop at some arbitrary point. This is a rather odd occurrence. However, after taking another look at the face, the answer was quite evident.
It’s a broken pocket watch which was most probably a useless piece of junk. However, it had been repurposed by someone to become a completely random choice maker for a football pool. Football pools are essentially betting pools where participants predict results.
