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Watch, 2010

DocumentedDocumented from the holding institution's catalogue record.

Maker / attribution: Unrecorded in source
Date: 2010
Historical period: Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
Country of origin: Unrecorded in source
Object type: Watch
Dimensions: width: 4 cm; length: 4 cm; height: 0.9 cm
Holding institution: Suomen kansallismuseo
Accession / object no.: SMM172010:1b
Credit line: Suomen kansallismuseo (via Finna)
Catalogue title (original): kello; postimerkkikello (Finnish)

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Record summary

Held and catalogued by Suomen kansallismuseo (object number SMM172010:1b), this is a watch, dated 2010. The Atlas places it in the Contemporary Horology period (2010 – Present) of its Pocket Watches collection. Recorded dimensions: width: 4 cm; length: 4 cm; height: 0.9 cm. The record is illustrated with 2 photographs.

Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.

Catalogue description

Description — Suomen kansallismuseo

fyysinen kuvaus: Postimerkkikello. Muovinen, vedettävä viisarikello, joka on postimerkin muotoinen. Postimerkin näköisessä kellotaulussa Vellamon ja Tarmon kuva. Punaiset viisarit läpinäkyvän, värittömän, pyöreän suojuksen alla. Sivussa vetonuppi. Taustapuolella tarrakiinnitys.

Shown in the original language of the source catalogue. An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.

Historical context

Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)

Silicon components, connected watches, optical-lattice research clocks and a thriving independent scene.

Pocket watches are now produced mainly as limited editions, unique pieces and heritage reissues, often showcasing traditional crafts such as enamel and engraving.

Read the period in the timeline More pocket watches from this period Earlier: Mechanical Renaissance

Atlas type guide

Timers, stopwatches, chronoscopes and time recorders

Instruments for measuring short intervals or recording when something happened form a large and practical branch of horology. Sports stopwatches and split-seconds timers, laboratory chronoscopes (such as Hipp's, which measured thousandths of a second for psychology and ballistics experiments), metronomes for music, watchmen's clocks that recorded patrol rounds, and the time recorders that clocked factory workers in and out all derive from clock and watch technology.

These objects matter historically because they show timekeeping leaving the observatory and the drawing room and entering industry, science and sport. Many were mass-produced, and their dials, scales and patents chart the rise of electrification and industrial management.

What to look for

Scales graduated in fifths, tenths or hundredths of a second, or decimal minutes for industrial use.
Start, stop and reset push-pieces; a second hand that can be stopped independently (split seconds).
Recording devices: paper discs or tapes, printing mechanisms, keys or punches.
Patent numbers and dates on the dial or case, which give a terminus post quem.

Dating clues

Hipp chronoscopes were made from the 1840s into the twentieth century.
Employee time recorders spread from the 1890s (Bundy, IBM, International Time Recording Co.).
Quartz and electronic timers replaced mechanical stopwatches in sport from the 1970s.

General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.

Mechanisms mentioned

No escapement or complication is named in the source record. See the encyclopedia for how such pieces work.

Record completeness

Maker or attributionNot in source
DateRecorded
Place or countryNot in source
MaterialsNot in source
DimensionsRecorded
Narrative descriptionRecorded
Inscriptions / marksNot in source
ProvenanceNot in source
Several photographsRecorded

Editorial status: Documented — facts as published by the source; not independently verified by Atlas editors.

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Sources & image rights

Record source: Suomen kansallismuseo (opens another website in a new tab).

Image rights: CC BY 4.0 (Suomen kansallismuseo, via Finna) — permission review (opens another website in a new tab).

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Cite this record

"Watch, 2010." Suomen kansallismuseo, SMM172010:1b. Catalogue record in The Horology Atlas, WatchMuseum.org, https://atlas.watchmuseum.org/museum/watch-2010-6c161f.