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Description: | The lower half of this Swiss-made pocket watch dial is painted with a scene anticipating the French fleet invading Britain. At the centre of the dial is a small aperture which has a mock automaton of one of the fleet's ships against a white background. The watch has been crudely altered since it was first made. The watch mechanism is not the original one, and the automaton ship is cut from a late 19th-century watch dial.
caption: Watch with depiction of an invasion
caption: Watch | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Invasion of Britain watches (timepieces) Nelson Napoleon and his allies | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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