The Complication
C. Detouche, Printed Announcement
Print detail — the engraved line holds at full size

The Ephemera

C. Detouche, Printed Announcement

The Paris house as the Rijksmuseum keeps it.

Work
Advertising print, Paris
Maker
C. Detouche (house), unknown engraver
Date
19th century
Held by
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-OB-30.605)
License
CC0
Master
3556×2680px

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 Detouche house again — this time as the Rijksmuseum's print room keeps it, an advertising print formal enough to be collected as a work on paper. That is the quiet joke of trade ephemera: the shop printed it to be glanced at and discarded, and a national museum catalogued it instead. Horology's paper trail was made with the same care as its wheel trains, and occasionally an institution notices.

See it on your wall

The mechanism, made for a room

C. Detouche, Printed Announcement printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

C. Detouche, Printed Announcement framed on the wall
C. Detouche, Printed Announcement framed on the wall
C. Detouche, Printed Announcement framed on the wall
C. Detouche, Printed Announcement framed on the wall

About this reproduction

  • A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-OB-30.605), 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: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-OB-30.605) — 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.

From the same hand

Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card — Trade card, 158–160 rue Saint-Martin, Paris, C. Detouche (house), unknown engraver, 19th century

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Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card

A Paris watch house’s calling card, engraved.

C. Detouche, 228–230 rue Saint-Martin — Trade Card — Trade card, 228–230 rue Saint-Martin, Paris, C. Detouche (house), unknown engraver, 19th century

19th century

C. Detouche, 228–230 rue Saint-Martin — Trade Card

The same house, a grander address, more ornament.

Horlogerie Lasne — Trade Card — Trade card, 45 rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, Paris, Lasne (house), unknown engraver, 19th century

19th century

Horlogerie Lasne — Trade Card

A quieter Paris shop, keeping its paper exact.