Tosca Pendant Watch

Exclusive to the Metropolitan Opera, our elegant pendant watch celebrates Giacomo Puccini’s venerated opera, Tosca.

Inspired by an antique piece, it is ION gold plated with a scratch-resistant surface, measures approximately 1 ½ inches in diameter and drops from a 27 inch long, open link, gold chain with clasp. High-precision Japanese movement ensures accuracy and reliability. Created to be lightweight and comfortable to wear.

In 1900, famed Milanese publishing company, Edizioni Ricordi, designed a stunning poster announcing Tosca’s world premiere. A reproduction of that vintage lithograph is depicted on the face of this striking pendant.

Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics, for their part, have often had problems with Tosca’s rather grungy subject matter, the directness and intensity of its score, and the crowd-pleasing dramatic opportunities it provides for its lead roles. But these same aspects have made Tosca one of a handful of iconic works that seem to represent opera in the public imagination. Tosca’s popularity is further secured by a superb and exhilarating dramatic sweep, a driving score of abundant melody and theatrical shrewdness, and a career-defining title role.

Premiere: Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 1900.
Met Opera and U.S. premiere: February 4, 1901.

• A Met Opera Exclusive
• Metal case with scratch resistant ION gold plating
• Diameter: 1 ½”
• Chain: 27” L, open link, gold
• Image: Reproduction of 1900 Edizioni Ricordi poster
• High-precision Japanese movement
• Battery included
• All proceeds benefit the Metropolitan Opera
   

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