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Watch with 24 Hour Dial
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
58.47