Watch, pocket

Description

Silver pocket watch signed 'David Ramsay Scotus, me fecit', traditionally given by James VI to one of his favourites, Robert Ker, first Earl of Somerset, c. 1615

Museum reference

H.NL 63

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Watch, pocket

Production information

David Ramsay, Watchmaker

Date

c. 1615

Materials

Silver

Associations

Buchan Hepburn Relics
James VI and I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland, 1566 - 1625
Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Somerset

References

Catalogue of Antiquities, Works of Art and Historical Scottish Relics Exhibited in the Museum of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and ... Annual Meeting, Held in Edinburgh, July, 1856, Edinburgh 1859, pp140-141 [watch exhibited by Sir Thomas Hepburn, Bart., the donor’s father]

Adrian A. Finch, Valerie J. Finch and Anthony W. Finch David Ramsay, c. 1580–1659 Antiquarian Horology, Volume 40, No. 2 (June 2019), pp. 177–199

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