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Roentgen were renowned German cabinetmakers whose workshop was
famed throughout Europe for its exquisite marquetry work and
complex mechanical devices. Proportioned for a stately public
room or library, this musical clock is likely to have been the
first Roentgen object to reach the United States, belonging to
Gouverneur Morris, one of the nation’s founding fathers. Not
only does it tell time, but it also displays the interior works,
which are hidden in most clocks. This clock, from The Nemours
Foundation, is featured in the exhibition Extravagant
Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens (on view
October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013). David Roentgen: Long-Case
Clock The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet (00:02:20) 11524
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