Pair-case watch
Medium
Case and dial: silver with blued-steel hand; movement: brass and steel
Dimensions
Diameter (outer case): 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Diameter (inner case): 2 in. (5.1 cm); Diameter (back plate): 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
Classification
Horology
Culture
British, London
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.190.1498a, b
About the Artist
Adam Roumeau|Nicolas II Massy|Henry Massy|Lewis Roumeau|Nicholas Massey the Younger ( |French|British| |French) · 1598 |1641 |1691 |1650 |1633 –1698 |1733 |1745 |1750 |1733
working 1687, died before 1698|French (active London), 1641–ca. 1728|British, active 1691–1745, Clockmakers' Company, 1692| |French (active The Hague), Clockmakers Company, 1693, died ca. 1728