4790

Repeating pocket chronometer movement with a dial and one hand. It has a full plate half- and quarter- repeating fusee movement, which is signed and numbered, with a spring-detent escapement and compensation balance, free-sprung, with helical balance spring. The watch has a white enamel dial, signed and numbered, with Roman numerals (hands are missing) and a subsidiary seconds dial, with a hand, below centre.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0389
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Pocket chronometer movement
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Barwise
Date made: circa 1815; ca.1850
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection
Measurements: Overall: 48 x 47 x 21 mm