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Collections > Clocks & Watches > Watch in the form of a skull

Watch in the form of a skull

Watch in silver case. A flattened bow projects from the centre of the top of the skull. The lower jaw and the bottom of the skull hinge at the back and open to reveal the dial on the underside of the skull. The applied dial is of silver against the gilt-metal of the movement, the figures in relief against a matted ground, the hours as black Roman numerals, surrounded by a minute band with the five-minute intervals marked by cartouches engraved with Arabic numerals.
Size: Diameter: 5 cm.

Artist / Maker: Le Roy a Paris

School: French

Place: Paris

Object Type: watch

Period: Louis X V

Actual Date: c. 1760

Century: 18th century

Materials: Silver, Gilt-metal

Museum Accession Number: Founders/CW.52