Spherical Table Watch (Melanchthon's Watch)
This is the earliest dated watch known. It is engraved on the bottom: "PHIL[IP]. MELA[NCHTHON]. GOTT. ALEIN. DIE. EHR[E]. 1530" (Philip Melanchthon, to God alone the glory, 1530). There are very few watches existing today that predate 1550; only two dated examples are...
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Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase [For invoice, see Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligman and Co. Records, B-309, F-1, S-7, No. 690]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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