The Cabinet
The Cross-Form Watch — c. 1600
A rock-crystal crucifix that is also a watch.
- Work
- Watch in the form of a cross
- Maker
- attr. Robert Dieu
- Date
- c. 1600
- Held by
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-17077)
- License
- Public domain (Rijksmuseum PD mark)
- Master
- 4000×5348px
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
A rock-crystal crucifix that is also a watch — devotion and horology keeping the same hours in one transparent case. The form watch at its most solemn: through the crystal the movement is visible, the mechanism as reliquary. Around 1600, prayer hours and clock hours were still the same idea wearing different dress, and this object refuses to choose between them. Time was holy before it was punctual.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Cross-Form Watch — c. 1600 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 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-17077), served under the institution’s stated license (Public domain (Rijksmuseum PD mark)) — 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 (BK-17077) — 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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