Watch with 24 Hour Dial

1792-1793 Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm) Citation Source image

This unusual watch with a 24-hour dial (face) needed only to be wound once each week. Initially, during the French Revolution, the dial might have been calibrated in the decimal system for a ten-hour day and was later converted to the normal 12-hour system.

Artifact

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20384
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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