File:Pair-case watch MET DP168599.jpg

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Pair-case watch   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Tompion  (1638–1713)  wikidata:Q2427688
 
Thomas Tompion
Description watchmaker and inventor
Date of birth/death 1638 Edit this at Wikidata 20 November 1713 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bedfordshire London
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Title
Pair-case watch
Description
British, London; Pair-case watch; Horology
Date 1682–83
Medium Outer case: leather with gold studs; inner case and dial: gold with blued-steel hands; movement: gilded brass, partly blued steel, and silver
Dimensions

Diameter (outer case): 2 in. (5.1 cm); Diameter (inner case): 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm);

Diameter (back plate): 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Accession number
17.190.1489a, b
Credit line Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194081

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Pair-case watch, watchmaker: Thomas Tompion, case maker: Nathanial Delander (MET, 17.190.1489a, b)

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