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The case has its back worked in gold relief. A shield in its centre contains the elaborate superimposed monogram 'BE' or 'EB'. Composed around this are doves, foliage, and flowers in two colours of gold. The watch face and movement are imported from Switzerland. Watch cases were commonly produced and damascened in Eibar, and a variety of these are illustrated in price lists of the second and third decades of the twentieth century. Swiss patterns for watch cases, used in Eibar as design sources in the decoration of a variety of objects since the nineteenth century, were employed in the design of watch cases as well when these began to be produced commercially sometime around 1910–1915. The most appreciated designer continued to be Desprez of Geneva, whose patterns dominate the illustrated lists of watch cases available from the damascening houses. None of the design albums illustrates ornament for the bezel, which was therefore left to the imagination of the damascene. On this watch, the bezel displays a series of anthemia containing and surrounded by concave circular punch marks. Gold beading decorates the circumference of the case.
Title
Watch with Fob
Date
early 20th C
Medium
iron, gold damascene & glass
Accession number
135
Work type
Sculpture