Gold pair-cased verge watch with quarter-repeat
On display
Details
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Title
Gold pair-cased verge watch with quarter-repeat
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Artist/maker
Daniel Quare (active 1671 - 1724)possibly Solomon Gibbs (active 1708 - 1735) -
Associated place
London (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1690
1687 -
Material and technique
case; gold
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Object type
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Dimensions
outer case 5.42 cm (diameter)
inner case 4.72 cm (diameter)
movement 3.62 cm (diameter)
pillar 0.75 cm (height) -
No. of items
3
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Credit line
Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 55 | Silver -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1947.191.85
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Further reading
Wood, E., Curiosities of clocks and watches from the earliest times. (London, 1866)
Thompson, David, ‘Watches in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, Antiquarian Horology, 25, (2000), pp. 622-625
Thompson, David, Watches in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007)
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