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Train-set in a pocket watch
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Boing Boing Gadgets celebrates the bottomless creativity of the Pearl River Delta with this pocket-watch that's also a miniature train set. Chugga chugga chugga chugga choo choo!
Miniature train set hardly a Lionel, but it fits in your pocket,
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Micro-trains revolve around a clock in your pocket
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... of "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Oh, I get it — just to pass the time away.
If that's not quite the representation of the Currier and Ives Christmas that rings your sleighbells, you might opt for a similar version with sleighs circling the clock instead of trains. Either way, you're only out $19.47 if this QVC bauble doesn't quite work out. If neither one of those does the trick, maybe you'd like this 21st-century pocketwatch.
QVC, via BB Gadgets
Mr. Christmas Musical Animated Train Pocket Watch
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... Watch could be well worth adding to your collection if unique time-pieces interest you. This pocket-watch has two miniature handpainted locomotives chugging along a circular track that is embedded within the dial. While the trains chug along the track, the watch also plays the the tune "I've Been Working on the Railroad", just to add to the spirit.
Now that’s one train which is guaranteed to always be "on time". Available from QVC for around $20.
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