Watch with a Rock Crystal Case

Watch: 1560; Case: ca. 1625

3.1 cm 4.5 cm 2 cm

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The watch is signed "H. K." in intricate engraving on the backplate and again, with the date 1560, under the dial. The date is very early for such a small watch, and the style is so unusual that specialists have questioned its authenticity, but analysis has revealed that the e...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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