This past weekend my wife and I visitied the Dallas Museum of Art along with our grand kids and my granddaughter knowing my passion for "anything that ticks" came rushing in to show me a magnificent original oil painting which was on display. This very large( approx. 5 feet square) oil on canvas painting was done by the artist Gerald Murphy in 1925 is simply called "Watch".

I think you'll agree the image of the painting on the postacrd I bought is really outstanding and something I thought you'd all like to see. The mix of colors and his eye for detail is simply terrific.

Any guesses which make of PW he may have been referring to with the Serial No. 483639 ??

Illinois or Elgin 16 size three finger bridge movement?

Rockford

That's not the Gerald Murphy who was a friend of F.Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, I suppose?

Nice picture. Kind of reminds me of later work, very American somehow.

Jessica

I think Swiss.

I would agree with Frank, with the winding wheel click on the "outside" usually indicats a Swiss manufactor...I think only an Elgin 18 size Mdl 8 had the click on the outside, not between the 2 wheels..

Jessica,
I think he may well have been friends with F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here's a bit more information on him

Gerald Murphy lived 1888-1964

Born in Massachusetts

A prominent figure and multi-talented artist of the Lost Generation of Avant-Garde Americans in Paris in the 1920s, Gerald Murphy was known for painting everyday objects in flat, un-modulated colors. He later said that he was "nourished on Leger's Picasso's Braque's and Gris' abstractions." He worked painstakingly, producing only a handful of finished works in the decade of the 1920s.

Murphy, apparently was a tall, attractive, redheaded man, from a wealthy New England family.