Perhaps you thought that camera phones were innovative and some might even be old enough to remember the comic world detective Dick Tracy’s two-way watch. What many may be unaware of is that “camera watches” first were introduced in the early 1900s. The Steineck Subminiature Wrist-camera,pictured here, is an example of such a camera watch that was in production in the late forties to mid-fifties.

“Invented by Dr. Rudolph Steineck of Switzerland and highly regarded as one of the better quality subminiature cameras made. Uses a 24mm circular film disk and automatic film advance. The viewfinder is a reflex concave mirror with a sharp centre line pointer, which permits sighting from above when the camera, worn on the wrist, is held in picture-taking position. Through the centre of the camera is a hole, an alternative direct-vision viewfinder.”
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