🔴 800 SILVER pocket watch for women, nun, to be overhauled, parts: 15 Cylinders

Specimen No. 15

Antique pocket watch WITH CYLINDERS with case chiseled in SILVER HAND CHISELLED by master goldsmiths of the time, all original built in the early 1900s, ceramic dial

⚙️ Manual winding mechanism

🛠️ to be repaired - spare parts

💎 In precious metal 800% SILVER

🔬 the hallmark of the noble metal is present

Case diameter: 3.6 cm; height with hook: 5.2 cm

🔍 Conservative state as per photo

📖 An age of ink and genius: In the heart of the 19th century and until the dawn of the 20th, when elegance was marked by the discreet chimes of time, the ladies of the great European capitals—from Vienna to Paris, from London to Turin—kept small silver secrets in their busts or hanging from precious chains on their chests: they were pocket watches, finely chiseled, often in 800 or 925 silver, adorned with floral motifs, cameos, or hand-engraved initials. It wasn't just a functional object. It was a symbol.

Aristocratic women, but also the first independent intellectuals and artists, wore it as a jewel of modernity.

It was the era of George Sand, Marie Curie, the first suffragettes, and the ladies who wrote love letters in the literary cafés of Montmartre. In those pockets or hanging from their corsets, watches kept more than a precise time: they told tales of train journeys to the Riviera, of masked balls, of gaslit salons and whispered voices between velvet curtains.

Wearing a silver pocket watch that once belonged to a lady today is like touching the wrist of another era. It's like feeling the gentle pulse of a changing society, one that opened the doors of knowledge, art, and freedom to women.