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Summary

Artist

Anonymous (German artist)



Alternative names	Philipp Schwartzerdt
Description	German theologian, writer and scholar
Date of birth/death	16 February 1497	19 April 1560
Location of birth/death	Bretten near Karlsruhe	Wittenberg
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Spherical Table Watch (Melanchthon's Watch)

Description

English: This is the earliest dated watch known. It is engraved on the bottom: "PHIL[IP]. MELA[NCHTHON]. GOTT. ALEIN. DIE. EHR[E]. 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).

Date

1530 ( Renaissance)

Medium

gilt on brass case, gilt on brass dial, iron movement

Dimensions

Height: 4.8 cm (1.9 in). Width: 4.8 cm (1.9 in).

Current location

Walters Art Museum

	Native name	Walters Art Museum
	Location	Baltimore, United States
	Coordinates	39° 17′ 45.88″ N, 76° 36′ 55.10″ W
	Established	1934
	Website	thewalters.org
	Authority control	WorldCat

Accession number

58.17

Exhibition history

Philip Melanchthon's Watch. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 2000-2001.

Credit line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1910

Inscriptions

[Transcription] Engraved on the bottom: PHIL[IP]. MELA[NCHTHON]. GOTT. ALEIN. DIE. EHR[E]. 1530; [Translation] Engraved on bottom: Philip Melanchthon, to God alone the glory, 1530

Ownership history

Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase
1910: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters

place of origin

Augsburg, Germany (?)

Source/Photographer

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