The Cabinet
The Astronomical Clock Watch — c. 1605
Moon, zodiac, and sundial in one palm-sized face.
- Work
- Astronomical clock watch
- Maker
- Jan Jansen Bockeltz
- Date
- c. 1605
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Open Access)
- License
- CC0
- Master
- 2983×4000px
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
Moon, zodiac, calendar, and a folding sundial in one palm-sized gilt face — Jan Jansen Bockeltz's astronomical clock watch of about 1605 carries the tower clock's whole program, miniaturized. The complication is older than the wristwatch by three centuries, and here is the proof in a single dial-scape; the sundial folded into the case is the watch carrying its own check, mechanical time still deferring, politely, to the sun.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Astronomical Clock Watch — c. 1605 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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (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: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (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.
.jpg)