Enameled Watch

1650-1660 (Baroque)

4 cm 5.2 cm 1.4 cm

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Enameled watches from the first half of the 1600s are exceedingly rare. These watches were purchased for their cases, as show pieces; the movements inserted in them were of a lower quality and poor timekeepers even for the period.The scintillating appearance of the green is ac...

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