Pocket watch with inner case

DateWorks: Ca. 1708

Artist/Maker Thomas Tompion

OriginEngland, London

MediumGold, steel, enamel

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Martha W. Brandt

Object number1994-20,A

DescriptionGold pocket watch with inner case (A)
Label TextClock and watchmaker Thomas Tompion made goods for the royal family. He fashioned the movement of this watch for Virginia planter Robert Carter of Nomini Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
MarkingsSerial number inscribed on movement: "4215"; maker's mark on inside of case: "HT."
ProvenanceThis watch was owned by Robert Carter of Nomini Hall (father of Counsellor Robert Carter), whose father, Robert ("King") Carter owned another Tompion watch (now exhibited at Christ Church in Irvington, VA). The donor is descended from Robert Carter of Nomini Hall through her great-great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Carter Willis, daughter of Robert Carter and sister of Counsellor Robert Carter.

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