Accessory · La Chaux-de-Fonds
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VerifiedDance card containing a small watch movement within its cover. The polychrome enamelled cover, depicting a woman on horseback, opens by pressing a small push-button and protects an enamel dial measuring 1 cm in diameter, indicating the hours and minutes. The movement is wound and set using the associated key, by means of the two squares located around the edge of the dial. The front is signed: FRED C. COURVOISIER, Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse, N° 4567. The dance card is accompanied by a pencil and a key.
Technical facts
- Inventory number
- MIH I-2971
- Object type
- Accessory
- Place of production
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Dating
- c. 1850
- Materials and techniques (catalogue wording)
- Émail, Or
- Dimensions (catalogue)
- dimensions: 75.0 x 50.0 x 12.0 mm; poids: 82.500 g
- Inscriptions (catalogue)
- N° 4567 (Devanture); FREDC COURVOISIER; Chaux-de-Fonds; Suisse (Devanture)
Historical significance
- Dance card containing a small watch movement within its cover. The polychrome enamelled cover, depicting a woman on horseback, opens by pressing a small push-button and protects an enamel dial measuring 1 cm in diameter, indicating the hours and minutes. The movement is wound and set using the associated key, by means of the two squares located around the edge of the dial. The front is signed: FRED C. COURVOISIER, Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse, N° 4567. The dance card is accompanied by a pencil and a key.
Photographs
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Sources & references
- Musée international d'horlogerie, online collection record, inv. I-2971: https://collection.mih.ch/fr/collection/item/51535/
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