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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store or The Met Store, a museum gift and reproductions shop offers ‘Art Color Magic Watch Collection’, the adaptation watch from celebrated treasures in the Museum’s collection that adds some sophistication to your style. There is a wide array of fashion timepieces with a color magic for women, men and children. The Met Store’s magic watch collection is now available at 2 stores - The Met Store at Kian Gwan House’s 1st floor on Wireless Road at Tel 02-651-4117 and The Met Store at the Emporium’s 3rd floor Tel 02-664-9191.
Discover the selection ‘Art Color Magic Watch collection’ from The Met Store that adapted from Greece art, masterpieces by well-known western art or eastern art that fits your tastes such as
-Mycenaean Spirals Watch, 18K gold overlay case, printed plastic band in quartz movement, case: 1 1/4'' diam. A painted copy of the frieze in the Museum’s collection, is the source for our watch design. The band shows ‘great S-spiral frieze’ fresco, with alternating up-and-down spirals and fan- shaped papyrus lotus blossoms, that became the favored ornate band frieze used to decorate most of the Mycenaean palaces. Mycenaean is the term applied to the art and culture of Greece from about 1600 to 1100 B.C. Price at 3,200.- Baht
-Jeweled Laurelton Hall Mosaic Watch, Rose gold overlay, with Czech crystals, and mother-of- pearl and faux- mosaic face, leather strap in quartz movement, case: 1 5/15'' diam. 8''L. The dial is based on the beauty in the dining room of Laurelton Hall, the country estate of Louis Comfort Tiffany (American artist, 1848–1933) was a large mantelpiece, essentially a floor-to-ceiling sheet of light-colored marble. Three instrument faces set with blue mosaic adorned it, including one beautiful clock face. Price at 8,000.- Baht.
-Favrile Peacock Feather Watch, 18K gold overlay case, printed plastic band in quartz movement, case: 1 1/4'' diam. The elegant watch is inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffany’s (American, 1848–1933) iridescent glass vase produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company in 1900. The piece stylizes the “eye” of the peacock feather with rich iridescent hues that gradate to a light blue surrounding the eyes. Louis Comfort Tiffany was often compelled by the natural world, and this particular motif was used in some of his most important architectural commissions and ornamental vessels. The chic design of our watch is based on the peacock feather motif from the original vase. Price at 3,200.- Baht.
-Magnolia Blossoms Watch, 18K gold overlay case, printed plastic band in quartz movement, Case: 1 1/4'' diam.; band: adjusts from 6 1/2'' to 8 1/2''L. The captivating watch design showcases the luminous magnolia blossoms by Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) as a memorial to the Frank family of New York. Delicately rendered irises and magnolia blossoms form a frame in the foreground with a winding river disappearing into distant hills in the background. Price at 3,200.- Baht.
-Klimt Pink Watch, brass case, with stainless steel back, plastic band, with steel buckle in quartz movement. The printed band is inspired by the bold graphic featured on the textile Painter Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918) produced for the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna workshops. Klimt was a leader of Secession, an association of artists founded in 1897 to challenge the prevailing academic conservatism prevalent in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Price at 3,200.- Baht.
-Klimt Black Watch, silver overlay case, printed plastic band in quartz movement. The lively geometric pattern on our Klimt Black Watch is based on a Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918) printed textile in the Museum’s collection. In 1905, the Wiener Werkstätte began producing printed and woven textiles, many designed by artists such as Klimt. For nearly thirty years, the workshops produced refined and graphically striking designs, distinctive in their use of flat shapes and bold colors and often incorporating folk art, geometric and architectural motifs, and floral patterns. Price at 3,200.- Baht.
-William Morris Compton Square Watch, 18K gold overlay case, leather strap in quartz movement, case 1 ¼” square. The watch features a rich botanical and floral motif colors of wallpaper design by Henry Dearle, chief designer of William Morris’s (British most influential designers of Victorian, 1834- 1896), by using two different shades of green as well as pink and blue pastels for the poppies and tulips in his wallpaper. Price at 5,300.- Baht.
-Japanese Peony Scrolls Watch, 18K gold overlay case, printed plastic band in quartz movement. Band: adjusts from 5 7/8'' to 7 7/8''L; Case: 1 1/4'' diam.This watch design is adapted from an elaborately decorated maki-e lacquer box lid from the Japanese Edo period (1615–1868), with peony scrolls surrounding a design of hawk feathers. It may have been used by a daimyo (provincial warlord) traveling to and from the capital as he served the shogun, the supreme military commander. The whorl of feathers is a crest used by the Inoue family of Mikawa, who were among the closest retainers of the ruling Tokugawa family. The box lid was likely originally used as a cover for a three- legged casket (hokai) for carrying food; Edo period hokai were often among the large, matched sets of lacquer furnishings given as high-status wedding gifts. Price at 3,200.- Baht.
-Qing Flowering Tree Watch, 18K gold overlay case. printed plastic band in quartz movement. The watch design is developed from the colorful embroidered blossoms on a festive eighteenth-century Qing wedding hanging in the Museum’s collection. An era of rich artistic achievement, China’s Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) produced beautiful objects in diverse media including paintings on silk, lacquerware, and jade. Price at 3,200.- Baht.
Look for the colorful watch with amazing story at The Met Store Kian Gwan House’s 1st floor on Wireless Road and The Met Store at the Emporium’s 3rd floor.