Nathan George Horwitt

[1] His best known design was for the "Museum Watch", which features a black dial without any numbers, symbols or lines to mark hours and minutes.

The only mark on the watch was a single gold dot at the twelve o'clock position, intended to be evocative of a sun dial.

[5] Horwitt supported the creation of the State of Israel, serving as a member of the board of the American League for a Free Palestine.

For his efforts towards the establishment of the Jewish state, he was awarded the Jabotinsky Medal by Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin in 1980.

[1] Horwitt was rumored to have made his farm in Stockbridge, Massachusetts available for training exercises for the Jewish underground force, the Irgun, between 1945 and 1948.