Watch

Pocket watch with yellow gold hunter case. Thirty hour duration, single train, gilt brass four pillar capped fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power. Single table roller, ratchet-tooth lever escapement. Flat steel balance with flat steel balance spring. Boseley regulator engraved 'Slow, 5, 10, 15, Fast'. Engraved balance cock with grotesque mask. Diamond endstone in blued-steel setting. Jewelled to the fourth wheel. Barrel bridge signed 'Thos. Mofs Ludgate Street 5294 London'. Cap signed 'Thos. Mofs London 5294'. Stamped on the underside with 'I S' (S I?) and scratched with '396'. Flat white enamel dial with Roman hour numerals. Subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock with Arabic ten second markers. Gold spade and poker hands with blued-steel second hands. 18ct yellow gold consular hunter case, hallmarked 'London 1810-1811' with makers incuse stamp 'I R' (James Richards?) and 'C'. Gold bezel with convex glass over dial. Oval section pendant with narrow stirrup bow.

Object Details

ID: JEW0262
Collection: Decorative art
Type: Watch
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Thomas Moss
Date made: circa 1810
People: Thomas Moss
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 78 x 56 x 22 mm