Watch for the Turkish Market
Artist
Maker unknown
(European)
Date1650-1875
MediumGilt brass, silver gilt, steel
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 9/16 in., (10.6 x 9.4 x 4 cm,)
ClassificationsT&E FOR TIMEKEEPING
Credit LineProctor Collection, Thomas R. Proctor Watch Collection
Terms
Object numberPC. 317
DescriptionIn the form of a book with compartmented spine and hinged covers held by clasps, each cut to view watch movement secured by hinge to front "endpaper", the back cover inset with pieced lid from 16th c. watch, all engraved with scrolls and strapwork. Case chased with strapwork on all surfaces and inset with oval verge watch with openwork pillars, single steel hand, applied with silvered pierced foliage on dial and backplate.Assembled during last 1/4 of 19th century
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Label TextThis timepiece is essentially a clock held in a Renaissance-style, book-form case. While most of the watch parts date to the seventeenth century, the ensemble was mostly likely assembled in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to appeal to (or, perhaps, to fool) antique timepiece collectors.
