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Collection Item: Verge Watch
Basic info
- Collection
- Social History
- Object name
- Verge watch
- Object category
- Working life
- Object subcategory
- Distribution, hotels, catering, retail and repairs
- Creators
- Unknown (Watchmaker)
- Description
- Pre-balance spring verge in an oval gilt brass case. The oldest watch in the collection and one of the oldest watches in existence.
- Production date start
- 1550
- Production date end
- 1570
- Period
- Medieval
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : WC1
- Alternative number
- YORYM : YM735
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 4.8792
- 4.484
- 3.42
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 45003204
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Silver (Side band)
- Brass (Case)
- Dimensions
- Dial width 3.9 cm
- Dial depth 4.9 cm
Production
- Creators
- Unknown (Watchmaker)
- Location
- France
- Technique
- Gilded
