Lady's Lapel Watch
date: label: date made
content: 1901
notes: label: Description
content: For most of the nineteenth century, women had worn watches hung from long chains around the neck, but by the end of the century styles changed. Fashion magazines advocated a variety of timepieces for women who could afford luxuries. A well-to-do woman might own a very special bracelet containing a watch or a watch set in a ring. More common were watches designed to pin at her waist or, like this one made in Switzerland about 1900, on her lapel.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Eva C. Taiclet
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.315969
label: catalog number
content: 315969
label: accession number
content: 224781
objectType: label: Object Name
content: watch
label: Other Terms
content: watch; Mechanical, Spring-Driven; Lapel Watch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: enamel (watch case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (watch movement material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (dust cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (watch case material)
label: Physical Description
content: mineral, brilliant (watch case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.27 cm