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Reishorloge
Also titled Travelling watch
Salomon Hendrikszoon Coster (died 1659)
c. 1643 - c. 1659
- Medium
- silver (metal), glass, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- travel clocks
- Dimensions
- height 10.5 cm x width 8.5 cm x depth 4.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This plain case contains a movement incorporating the most modern ideas of its time. Salomon Coster was one of the leading clockmakers of his day. He was in contact with eminent scientists, such as Christiaan Huygens, who were trying to increase the precision of timekeeping instruments. As a result, Coster’s table clocks were internationally renowned. The men portrayed on this watch may be scholars.
