Russian Imperial Egg Pendant Watch from The Met Museum

This cosmopolitan pendant watch is designed after an original gold and enamel miniature Fabergé egg (1896 -1903). The ultimate achievement of the House of Fabergé is the series of jeweled Easter eggs created for Czars Alexander III and Nicholas II of Russia. These delicate "works of fantasy" often memorialized important occasions in the reign of the Imperial Romanov family.

This pendent watch was produced in cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts which has the original it was designed after. Measurements: The egg 1 3/8 inches tall 1 6/8 images with loop 1 inch wide Watch inside egg 5/8 inches wide 7/8 of an inch tall Chain 31 inches.