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Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion
- Date
- ca. 1770–72
- Type
- Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
- Medium
- Outer case: glass and gold set with diamonds, pearls, emeralds, and rubies; Inner case: gold; Dial: white enamel with black painted Chinese characters and blued steel hands; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 17.190.1440a, b
- Credit
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
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