Gold pocket watch "Echappement à Cylindre, quatre rubis N 35717"
Also known as: Fickur av guld "Echappement à Cylindre, quatre rubis N 35717"
Record status
Individual type · partial
Gold pocket watch "Echappement à Cylindre, quatre rubis N 35717" is held by Sörmland Museum (Sweden). Description supplied by the holding institution: Small pocket watch of gold, four cm in diameter.
Enameled white dial with Roman numerals and simple slender hands. The back decorated with a coat of arms surrounded by curved lattice. Marked on the inner lid: "Echappement à Cylindre quatre rubis N 35717" and on the movement itself: "Avance Retard". The pocket watch is a gift from "Dean's wife Ek" in 1960 to Strängnäs museum. Ester Emilia Charlotta Kjerrulf (born 14/3 1881 in Mölltorp, died 5/12 1975), married in 1904 to Dean and parish vicar Ernst Georg Ek (1873-1932) in Vansö.
After her husband's death Ester moved to Strängnäs. The pocket watch was transferred in 2017 to Sörmland Museum. The collection record gives material recorded as Metal: Gold; Metal; format: text/plain. Published through Europeana; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Metall: Guld; Metall
Technical characteristics
- Format recorded
- text/plain
Identification
- Europeana id
- /916123/SLM_item_445117
- Museum object name
- Fickur av guld "Echappement à Cylindre, quatre rubis N 35717"
- Holding institution
- Sörmland Museum
Catalogue references
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