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Description: | One side of a double-sided lead alloy child's toy watch. The watch is of a domed form. The toy is very badly damaged and only two fragments survive. The outer edge has a border of small pellets and a wide flange enclosing a border of rococo-style decoration. There is a beaded circle around the chapter ring which is marked with the hours I-XII in Roman numerals. The numerals alternate with pellets which indicate the half hours. The dial centre is plain and the hand, which has an arrowhead pointer, indicates 12 o'clock. As the watch is damaged it is unclear whether it was single- or double-handed, but comparing it to others of similar type it seems likely that it was single handed, and simply had a counterpoise opposite the hand. A slight knop at the top of the outer edge of the watch is all that remains of a pendant loop. This example is similar to a number of Type 5 watches in the Museum of London collection. These were made in a two-part mould, with the two separately cast hemispheres solded together around the circumference (Forsyth with Egan 2005, 351).Toy watches reflect the designs prevalent in particular periods and they are thus stylistically quite readily datable (Forsyth with Egan 2005, 338-339). This toy is notably similar to examples 12.29 and 12.30 illustrated in Forsyth with Egan (2005, 358). Those watches date from the late 17th to early 18th century and the present fragment is almost certainly of the same date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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