A talk entitled Artistry of Pocket Watches with Adrian Le Harivel

A beautiful gold and enamel pocket watch by the renowned Dublin watch and clock maker John Crosthwaite from the late 18th century. Originally from County Kildare, Crosthwaite spent many years in Dublin and had a very successful and wide-ranging career including the manufacture of watches, domestic clocks, turret clocks and precision timepieces.

Adrian Le Harivel was a Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland for forty two years and came to timepieces through their depiction in paintings. He has lectured extensively on this subject and is himself a collector. In this talk, he focuses on the pocket watch and artistry of the creators as well as trade cards and chatelaines used to attach them to clothes. This will be an opportunity to see the work of some of the greatest makers whose watches are now in museums from America to Switzerland. He will also show fine examples that are still in the realm of the ordinary collector.