Watch for Napoleon’s Mother, Letizia Bonaparte
This unusual watch has no numbers, it belongs to a type called "montres à tact" or discrete watches. The clever design allows the time to be told by touch alone, feeling the four diamonds on the hour and the quarters, and the pearls that mark the remaining divisions of the twe...
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Commissioned for (?) Maria-Letizia Bonaparte (née Ramolino, 1750–1836), Paris, France, after May 26, 1805; inherited by (?) Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française, Princess of San Donato (1820–1904), Rome, Italy, 1836; acquired by Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov [Anatole Demidoff], 1st Prince of San Donato (1813–1870), Florence, Italy. Acquired by Tiffany & Co., New York, by 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Catalogue de montres exposées chez Tiffany & Co. ayant fait partie de la collection Demidoff, Prince de San Donato (New York: Tiffany & Co., 1893), no. 23 “Montre Empire, d’aveugle, émail, diàmants et perles. Horloger, Le Roy, H’ger. de S. Alt., Rle Madame, à Paris.”
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