Clock watch with gilded dial and repeating mechanism

Historical significance

• Met accession 17.190.1447 is catalogued as a Clock watch dating approximately to 1736–95. No named maker or national origin is supplied here: the API fields retrieved for those claims did not establish them.
• The catalogue explicitly describes a repeating mechanism and lists gilded brass, partly blued steel, leather and fish skin among the object's materials. These are catalogue descriptions, not results of a fresh technical examination.
• The reviewed front photograph includes Roman hour numerals, an outer numbered scale and characters on the central dial. Their presence alone is not grounds for assigning a workshop, translating an inscription or authenticating an imperial association.
• The dimensions include the bail in its raised position. Recording that qualification avoids comparing overall height with the diameter of another watch as though both measured the same feature.
• Neither the photograph nor the collection listing establishes that the mechanism currently runs. No instructions for operating the repeater are offered: inspection of a historic mechanism belongs with its custodian or a qualified professional.

Sources & references

1. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194040
2. https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/194040

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.