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Turkish watches (1600-1850) |
| Watches made for the Turkish and Persian markets (1600-1850) |
Constantinople welcomes a colony of Geneva watchmakers, 1600 to 1850
Very little is known about how the Swiss timepiece originally came to Turkey. It seems that the first examples entered the Ottoman palaces as objects of curiosity, brought in, like so many others, by merchants, missionaries or diplomats. Reliable knowledge of serious trade between Swiss watchmakers and Turkey dates especially from the end of the sixteenth century. Through the intermediary of the French and thanks to the ...
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