Room 107
The Nathan-Rupp watch collection
in 1982, the Basel Historical Museum received an extensive bequest from the couple Carl and Lini Nathan-Rupp. It is a collection of 244 clocks that the banquier Carl Nathan had built up between 1951 and 1976. It includes 17 elementary clocks, 73 grandfather clocks, 22 carriage clocks and 132 neck, pocket and form clocks dating from the 16th to the 20th century and from workshops ranging from England to Japan. Together with the more than 200 wheel clocks from the Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, the more than 250 pocket and form watches from the estate of Marie Bachofen-Vischer and a bundle of more than 100 elementary clocks from the estate of Emanuel Sarasin-Grossmann, it forms the core of the collection of timepieces in the Basel Historical Museum. The exhibits in this room come mainly from the Nathan-Rupp bequest and are supplemented by other clocks from the museum's collection.
Selection
- 1: Showcase 1
- 2: Showcase 2
- 3: Showcase 3
- 4: Showcase 4
- 5: Showcase 5
- 6: Showcase 6
- 7: Showcase 7
- 8: Showcase 8
- 9: Showcase 9
- 10: Showcase 10
- 11: Showcase 11
- 12: Showcase 12
- 13: Showcase 13
- 14: Showcase 14
- 15: Showcase 15
- 16: English neck and pocket watches of the 17th century
- 17: South German neck clocks of the 16th and early 17th century
- 18: Neck clocks from France, the Netherlands and Geneva of the early 17th century
- 19: Turkish and German clocks of the late 17th and early 18th centuries / Swiss and French neck and pocket watches of the later 17th century
- 20: English clocks of the late 17th and 18th centuries
- 21: French and Geneva clocks of the early 18th century / Clocks of various origins of the 18th century
- 22: Various watches of the 19th century
- 23: Form and pocket watches of the early 19th century
- 24: Pocket watches of various origins of the second half of the 18th century / Pocket watches with Jacquemarts of the early 19th century
- 25: Other pocket watches from the period around 1800 / Pocket watches from the period around 1800
- 26: Pocket watches of the early 19th century / Pocket watches with gold cases and gemstone trim of the early 19th century / Pocket watches with gold cases of the early 19th century / Pocket and form watches of the 19th century
- 27: Pocket watches with Geneva copper enamel cases of the time around 1800 / Pocket watches with Geneva gold enamel cases of the time around 1800 / Form watches from the time around 1800 / Gold enamel ladies watches from the time around 1800
