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Pocket chronometer movement with dial and hands. It has a full-plate fusee movement, which is signed and numbered, with an Arnold spring-detent escapement and compensation three arm balance with regulator. The watch has a white enamel dial, which is signed and numbered, with Roman numerals and gold fleur-de-lys hands. The subsidiary seconds dial is positioned above centre with a steel seconds hand.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0393
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Pocket chronometer movement
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Arnold, John Roger; Morice, David
Date made: circa 1820
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection
Measurements: Overall: 53 x 52 x 18 mm