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Acorn

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    Object Details

    Producer

    Cartier, French, founded 1847

    Manufacturer

    European Watch and Clock Co. Inc., French-Swiss, founded 1920

    Description

    A watch with a circular dial with white enameled chapter ring, black enameled Arabic numerals and blued steel hands, within an acorn-form case decorated with single-cut and rose-cut diamonds on a black enameled ground, suspended from a black silk cord with black enamel and diamond cylindrical slide; mounted in 18-karat gold and platinum

    Credit Line

    Lent by Private Collection

    Date

    ca. 1925

    Accession Number

    13.2016.113

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    timepieces & measuring devices
    Exhibitions

    Object Name

    Pendant Watch

    Type

    Pendant Watch

    Medium

    Enameled gold, single- and rose-cut and other diamonds, blued steel, gold, platinum, silk (cord)

    made in

    France

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Exhibitions Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4b30127e3-5fe8-4c17-a64a-f3fd5a9733df

    Record ID

    chndm_13.2016.113

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