Pocket watch, repeater, Surete
Also known as: Fickur, repeter, Surete
Record status
Individual type · partial
Pocket watch, repeater, Surete is held by Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology. Museum description: Repeating watch in gold case, hunter case with stop for 1/5 second, showing month, date, day of the week and moon phases.
Inside the case on the inner case lid engraved: "Sureté". Repition de Minutes. Chronographe Quantiémes. Phases de Lune. No. 214137" and two medals from the World Exhibition in Paris 1900. The watch is fully functional. 18 karat. The spring that opens the case was broken upon arrival at TM.; Purchased by the donor in May 1903 in Monte Carlo. The museum record gives material recorded as precious metal (silver, gold, platinum); measurements diameter 57.0 mm; weight 0.15 kg; maker recorded: Surete.
These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Metall, ädel (silver, guld, platina)
- Dimensions
- Diameter 57.0 mm; Vikt 0.15 kg
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- image/jpeg; text/plain
- Maker recorded
- Surete
Identification
- Europeana id
- /916118/S_TEK_object_TEKS0024480
- Museum attribution
- Surete
- Museum object name
- Fickur, repeter
- Holding institution
- Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the holding institution and a specialist reference.