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Show The Romance of a Watch. Rossini's watch, which has recently been sold at Bologna to a rich Englishman English-man whose name is not mentioned, has a history. In 1824 Charles X presented pre-sented tho composer with a repeating watch, studded with diamonds, and playing two of Rossini's melodies. Nobody No-body in Bologna could clean tho watch, so it was sent in the care of tho tenor Fabiano to Paris, where it was destroyed destroy-ed in a fire. Plivoe', the watchmaker, thereupon made a second watch, the exact ex-act counterpart of tho 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, whoso son has just sold it. It is said to contain an excellent portrait in enamel of Rossini as he was in 1824. |