Collection Watch Collection
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- Date
- 1950 – 1975
- Material
- metal; skin; plastic; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0020 a-c
- Description
- Three inexpensive Timex wristwatches with buckling watchbands. (a) blue, rectangular stainless steel watch casing, 3.0 x 2.0, framing blue dial with white numerals and hands. Winding stem to right pulls to set hands, pins in brackets at each end hold navy blue plastic band, grained like leather. Ma…
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- Title
- Collection Watch Collection
- Date
- 1950 – 1975
- Material
- metal; skin; plastic; glass
- Dimensions
- 0.9 x 2.1 x 21. 5 cm
- Description
- Three inexpensive Timex wristwatches with buckling watchbands. (a) blue, rectangular stainless steel watch casing, 3.0 x 2.0, framing blue dial with white numerals and hands. Winding stem to right pulls to set hands, pins in brackets at each end hold navy blue plastic band, grained like leather. Marks: on face, "Timex", on back, "stainless steel back" . (b) snakeskin band, plain, round, easy to read white dial with black numerals, black hands, and a red second hand. Winding stem as (a). Black snakeskin band attached as (a) tapers to become quite narrow at buckle. Marks: on face, "Timex", on back, "base metal bezel, stainless steel back" . (c) plain black band, similar to (b) but dial marked with a circle of small lines denoting minutes around outside of face. Marks: on face, "Timex Great Britain", on back "Base metal bezel stainless steel back" .
- Subject
- households
- adornment
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0020 a-c
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