Pocket chronometer movement
Pocket chronometer movement with dial and hands. It has a half-plate fusee movement, which is unsigned and unnumbered, Earnshaw-type spring-detent escapement but with passing and locking pieces on separate blocks, a free-sprung compensation balance (broken staff) and helical balance spring. The watch has a white enamel dial inscribed 'CHRONOMETER', chipped around the rim, with Roman numerals, spade and poker hands (most of the hour hand is missing), a subsidiary seconds dial below centre (hand is missing) and a state-of-wind up and down indicator above centre.
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Object Details
ID: | ZAA0395 |
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Collection: | Timekeeping |
Type: | Pocket chronometer movement |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Earnshaw, Thomas; Earnshaw, Thomas |
Date made: | circa 1850 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection |
Measurements: | Overall: 44 x 44 x 11 mm |