Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Rossini's Watch. [ARTICLE]

Rossini's Watch.

In 1824 Charles X. presented Rossini, tho composer, with a repeating watch, studded with diamonds, and playing two of Rossini's medolicu. Nobody in Bologna could clean the watch, so it was sent in the care of the-tenor, Fabiauo, to Paris, where.it was destroyed in a fire. Plivee, the watchmaker, tbereupeif made a second watch, the exact counterpart of the first, except that the diamonds were false, and Rossini. who never discovered this pious fraud, wore the trinket all his life. On his death it passed to a relative, whose son sold It to an Englishman, it Is said to contain an excellent portrait in enamel oTßossint air'fie was tn 1824.