The Complication
Horlogerie Lasne — Trade Card
Print detail — the engraved line holds at full size

The Ephemera

Horlogerie Lasne — Trade Card

A quieter Paris shop, keeping its paper exact.

Work
Trade card, 45 rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, Paris
Maker
Lasne (house), unknown engraver
Date
19th century
Held by
Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content, NJ11854)
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

Not every horloger was a grand maison. The Lasne shop on the rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie kept its printed card exact and modest — a working watchmaker's paper, the kind slipped into a repaired watch's case on return. Ephemera like this is the closest surviving relative of the English watch paper tradition, and the Carnavalet's collection of Paris trade cards is one of the few places it survives at museum resolution, CC0, for walls.

See it on your wall

The mechanism, made for a room

Horlogerie Lasne — 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 Lasne — Trade Card framed on the wall
Horlogerie Lasne — Trade Card framed on the wall
Horlogerie Lasne — Trade Card framed on the wall
Horlogerie Lasne — 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, NJ11854), 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, NJ11854) — 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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C. Detouche, 228–230 rue Saint-Martin — Trade Card — Trade card, 228–230 rue Saint-Martin, Paris, C. Detouche (house), unknown engraver, 19th century

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