Pocket watch movement

Pocket watch movement with dial, hands and glass back cover. It has a profusely engraved going-barrel movement, which is signed, with duplex escapement and compensation balance. The watch has a white enamel dial with Roman numerals and centre-seconds. The hands are missing except for a fragment of the seconds hand. Bovet, who established a business in Fleurier, Switzerland, in the early nineteenth century, manufactured watches of this sort for export to China.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0320
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Pocket watch movement
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bovet
Date made: circa 1860
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection
Measurements: Overall: 51 x 49 x 13 mm
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