Clockwork · 05-03
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
ca. 1770–72
- Medium
- Gold set with diamonds, pearls, emeralds and rubies; enamel dial
- Date
- ca. 1770–72
- Dimensions
- 4.6 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm
- Catalogue
- 05-03
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
A quarter-repeater strikes the hour and the quarter on demand, for telling the time in the dark. The outer case is glazed and jewelled; the working case inside it is plain gold.1
Footnotes
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The museum catalogues the two cases as one object in two parts, 17.190.1440a, b, which is why a single plate carries both. ↩
References
- Provenance
- J. Pierpont Morgan; his gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917
- Exhibited
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view in gallery 512
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