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| Keywords: German - Spherical Table Watch (Melanchthon's Watch) - Walters 5817 - View F.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Anonymous German <br/> This is the earliest dated watch known It is engraved on the bottom PHILIP MELANCHTHON GOTT ALEIN DIE EHRE 1530 Philip Melanchthon to God alone the glory 1530 There are very few watches existing today that predate 1550; only two dated examples are known--this one from 1530 and another from 1548 There is no watchmaker's mark although Nuremberg is considered the birthplace of spherical watches called Nuremberg Eggs A single winding kept it running for 12 to 16 hours and it told time to within the nearest half hour The perforations in the case permitted one to see the time without opening the watch This watch was commissioned by the great German reformer and humanist Philip Melanchthon 1497-1560 1530 Renaissance gilt on brass case gilt on brass dial iron movement cm 4 8 4 8 accession number 58 17 27471 Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 Transcription Engraved on the bottom PHILIP MELANCHTHON GOTT ALEIN DIE EHRE 1530; Translation Engraved on bottom Philip Melanchthon to God alone the glory 1530 Philip Melanchthon's Watch The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 2000-2001 place of origin Augsburg Germany Walters Art Museum license Spherical Table Watch Melanchthon's Watch German art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
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