Footnotes

• The present watch is recorded in John Blades and John Loring's Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition as one of "13 Ladies' Watches," in Catalogue no. 46. It is listed as a "Lady's Watch, gold pearl and emerald pave" that was made for the exhibition.
  
  Paulding Farnham (1859-1927), whose jewelry defined the Tiffany style at the end of the 19th century, began his career at the age of 20 as apprentice to Tiffany silver designer Edward C. Moore. By 1885 he had become Moore's chief assistant and two years later began designing jewelry and silver for Tiffany's exhibit at the 1889 Paris Exposition. Among these were realistic brooches in the form of orchids fashioned from enameled gold. These flowers caused a sensation and won the gold medal for jewelry design.
  
  Almost without a pause, following Moore's death in 1891, Farnham set to work on jewelry destined for Chicago and the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The present watch reflects jewelry produced under the influence of Tiffany's gemologist George Frederick Kunz. In particular a brooch of pearls and emeralds influenced by Sioux Indian shield designs made for the 1889 Exposition is a precursor to the watch. See John Loring's Paulding Farnham, Tiffany's Lost Genius, p 169.

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