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French watch. The case is smooth and the enamel dial has four separate small dials for duodecimal hours (bottom), decimal hours (top), 31-day date (left), and 30-day date of revolutionary month (right). The dial rim displays the days of the French revolutionary calendar (primidi - duodi - tridi - quartidi [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Mechanics
- mechanics (physics)
Type of item
- Clock
- mechanical clocks
Medium
- gilt brass, enamel
- Brass
- brass (alloy)
- enamel (fused coating)
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- ca. 1795-1800
- 1795~/1800~
- 1795~/1800~
- 1800
- 1795
Places
- France
- France
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:412052
Extent
- diameter 58 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Ruscitti collection
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/indepth/Calendar.html
Year
- 1795
- 1800
Providing country
- Italy