The Complication
Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card
Print detail — the engraved line holds at full size

The Ephemera

Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card

A Paris watch house’s calling card, engraved.

Work
Trade card, 158–160 rue Saint-Martin, Paris
Maker
C. Detouche (house), unknown engraver
Date
19th century
Held by
Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content, NJ11827)
License
CC0
Master
4256×2832px

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 nineteenth-century Paris watch house of C. Detouche announced itself on paper like this: an engraved trade card dense with ornament, the shop's address on the rue Saint-Martin set like a jewel in its own case. Trade ephemera is the horology the histories skip — not the masterpiece but the handshake, the printed object a customer actually took home. The Carnavalet's scan preserves the plate work at a resolution the original cards never expected to enjoy.

See it on your wall

The mechanism, made for a room

Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card framed on the wall
Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card framed on the wall
Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card framed on the wall
Horlogerie et Bijouterie C. Detouche — Trade Card framed on the wall

About this reproduction

  • A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content, NJ11827), 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: Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content, NJ11827) — 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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