This is the “Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches” exhibit at The Frick Collection, which I recently previewed and photographed. The exhibit runs from January 23, 2013, through February 2, 2014, and is housed in the Portico Gallery at the Frick Collection Museum in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. If you are into historical clocks and timepieces, then this exhibit is a must see. You can visit the museum in person, or there is a virtual tour online HERE.

Major funding for the exhibition is provided by Breguet. The Frick Collection is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-14. After Mrs. Frick’s death in 1931, changes and additions to the building were made by the architect John Russell Pope, and in 1935 the Collection was opened to the public.

The Fobis Clock (pictured top) by Pierre de Fobis (1506-1575) is (pictured top).

The Portico Gallery, With a View of Central Park through the window

The Dance of Time, Three Nymphs Supporting a Clock, 1788, Movement was produced by Jean-Baptist Lepaute (1727-1802), and sculpture by Claude Michel Clodion (1738-1814), made of terra-cotta, gilt brass, and glass

Gold Pocket Watch with Tourbillon, 1820, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) and Antoine-Louis Breguet (1776-1858)

Garniture of One clock and Two Vases, 1764, clock movement by Jean Martin (active 1737-1786), Chinese hard paste porcelain garniture, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, with French gilt-bronze mounts

Gilt-Brass and Silver Table Clock with Astronomical and Calendrical Dials, probably 1653, David Web (active 1623/24-1704)

Gilt-Bronze Carriage Clock with Calendar, 1811, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823)