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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 the composor with a repeating watch, studded with diamonds, and playing two of Rossini's melodies. Nobody No-body in Bologna could clean the watch, so it was sent in the care of the tenor Fabiano to Paris, where it was destroy -ed in a fire. Plivee, the watchmaker, thereupon made a second watch, the exact ex-act 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 has just sold it. It is said, to contain an excellent portrait in enamel of Rossini as he was in 1824. |