Objekt 9
Skeleton pocket watch with repetition
Description
This watch in a pink gold case shows through the glass insert in the front cover the complicated skeletonized (openworked) movement with two-tone quarter-hour repeater. This allows the time to be repeated (repeated) acoustically at any time if desired: At the push of a button, one hears one tone for each hour and quarter hour, so at 11:45, for example, eleven tones for the hour and three other tones for the quarter hours. This 18th century invention was still very popular in the 19th century.
Object description
Manufacturer: Bordier
Geneva, around 1820
Gold, enamel
Bequest Carl and Lini Nathan-Rupp, Binningen
Inv. 1982.1093.