Watch
Robert Grinkin
ca. 1640–50 · Case: silver; Movement: gilded brass and steel, partly blued · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The plain silver dial and blued-steel hand of this watch display their maker’s fine sense of design. The clearly engraved chapter ring registers hours and quarters, probably approaching the limits of precision in a watch of this type. The glass cover may have been made to emphasize these features, perhaps at the same time when the present pendant and finial were added.
- Artist
- Robert Grinkin
- Date
- ca. 1640–50
- Medium
- Case: silver; Movement: gilded brass and steel, partly blued
- Culture
- British, London
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
