The Cabinet
The Chatelaine Watch — mid-1800s
Time worn as a waterfall of jewelry.
- Work
- Watch with chatelaine
- Maker
- Unknown maker
- Date
- mid-19th century
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art (1918.826, Open Access)
- License
- CC0
- Master
- 1728×3400px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
The full chatelaine hang: watch, chain, and equipage as one vertical cascade of jewelry, worn at the waist. For a century the watch hung this way as a woman's instrument — the chatelaine is the wristwatch's forgotten ancestor, time worn on the body long before the wrist won the argument. The composition is the point: a waterfall of gold ending in a dial, the hour as the pendant of an entire wardrobe.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Chatelaine Watch — mid-1800s printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Cleveland Museum of Art (1918.826, Open Access), served under the institution’s stated license (CC0) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: Cleveland Museum of Art (1918.826, Open Access) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
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