- Title: Jerusalem: Multi-million dollar watch & clock collection on
- Date: 28th October 1974
- Summary: 1. Int. GV The watch collection PAN over visitors moving from showcase to showcase (master shot) 2. Int. MS Woman looking at Marie Antoinette/ watch/ young couple in bg moving from Sympathetic Clock to... 3. INT. MS Side-view Young couple looking at Sympathetic Clock 4. Int. MCS Young couple looking at Perfume flask and pistol and singing bird bracelet seen through the showcase 5. Int. MCS Woman looking at Rolling Ball clock Int. various shots CU of rolling ball clock at work and the jumping second hand moving each time 15 seconds, whenever the ball comes to the end of its roll down the guide tracks 7. Int. TILT up from enamelled dial of Marie Antoinette watch to the (2 takes) intricate workings of the watch itself (looked at by woman in knitted white dress standing back to back with young couple) 8. Int. The Sympathetic Clock chimes 11 hrs TILT UP to watch on top. (This is what the young couple looked at in first position) The watch on top is wound by the clock at bottom and the clock being a synchronised timepiece will also correct the watch on top in case the latter has gained or lost time during the hours of the day the proprietor might have carried it in his pocket 9. Int. MS The perfume flask, the pistol and the singing bird barcelet (2 takes)ZOOM INTO the bird singing and then disappearing into the bracelet (what the young couple looked at in second position) 10. Int. ZOOM OUT from CU Singing Bird box to showcase and Mr. Markarian looking in and looking towards right side of case in MS 11. Int. PAN OVER what Mr. M. looks at and ZOOM INTO music box with timepiece and moving figures(automatones), a piece made around the late 18th or beginning 19th century. Note Serpentine hands in gold. EXT. The museum INT. CUs and MCUs of rolling ball clock and MS woman in white looks Int. Mastershot PAN TO end MS t e young couple looks at Sympathetic clock CU TILT OVER the face of Symp. Clock to watch MS another woman in white knitted dress looks at Marie Antoinette watch as young couple in bg move out CS TILT from dial to inside M. A. watch with its multitude of wheels MS inside a showcase the perfume flask and ZOOM IN over pistol to singing bird bracelet until it closes MS through showcase the young couple looking CU Singing bird box ZOOM OUT to Mr. M. looks at showcase MS PAN over what Mr. M. sees incl. fan ZOOM into music box with watch and automatones Initials Please use Tk 2 in shots which have second take. Sound behind singing bird comes from piece it-self and not from camera 12 Ext. The museum in Jerusalem's Kiryat Shmuel quarter This film was shot for cutting script as suggested on following page. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th November 1974 12:00
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- Location: show in Jerusalem/ Yad Meir Inst. for Islamic Art
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- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA4GZ6BA8WABVGY0HT5GETCKS36
- Story Text: A multi-million dollar watch & clock collection has gone on show in Jerusalem's newly opened L.A.Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art in a seperate basement showroom. It is the collection of Sir David Salomons, first Jewish Lord Mayor of London ever, and was donated by his daughter Mrs. Vera Bryce-Salomons. Not large in quantity but of highest quality it contains priceless and unique timepieces and music boxes, invaluable in their mastery of construction by such exerts as Breguet of Paris, Raby and Jaquet Droze as well as Leschot of London and many other masters of the art who also produced fanciful singing-bird timepieces and music boxes, even a singing bird bracelet and a singing bird perfume-flask with a watch set in, a rolling ball clock and a sympathetic clock, a singing bird revolver with an inset watch and the thinnest ever sel-winding pocket watch for such celebrities as Louis XVIII, King George III, the Prince of Wales in 1805, Jerome Bonaparte in 1806 and the Prince of Spain, the Queen of Naples and Marie Antoinette, as well as the Queen of Spain and Ging George the IVth. The watch for Marie Antoinette alone took 13 years to make at a cost of no less than Ffr 30.000.- of those days and is a unique piece produced by Abraham Louis Breguet; it incorporates in its housing small seconds, jumping seconds, minutes and hours, the day of the week and the date as well as the up-and-down of the mainspring of the watch (i.e. indicating when it is time to rewind it) as well as the difference of meantime versus solar time and a thermometer. The sympathetic clock by Raby and the watch by Brequet, both made around 1815 in Paris is numbered #722. No two such clocks were ever made alike and apart from some which may be hidden in privat collections only two such time pieces are known to exist outside the one in Jerusalem:- 1 at Backingham Palace and the other at the Heremitage at Leningrad. Both the singing bird bracelet and the singing bird pistol are the only known pieces of its kind whilst the perfume-flask cum
watch cumsinging bird back is a masterpeice of workmanship.- The collection will greatly add to the cultural attractions of Jerusalem and is already attracting tourists and Israelis alike. Mr. Ohannes Markarian is the official watchmaker of the collection and an Armenian of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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