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wasoxygen  ·  3256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December photo challenge Day 18: "Up Close"

Interesting, thanks! If I could have imagined that it was a pink diamond bearing (instead of the usual ruby), I might have come up with better search terms.

The timepiece gets a few pages, starting on p. 142 in European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which reveals that the case was manufactured by the company that would become Vacheron Constantin, the favorite of Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz.