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Pocket watch movement with dial and cap. It has a full plate fusee movement, signed and numbered, with an added inscription 'PATENT' on the balance cock foot, with a rack-lever escapement and fifteen tooth escape wheel and a plain steel flat-rim balance. The watch has a white enamel dial, which is unsigned and unnumbered, badly damaged at the XII position, with Roman numerals and a subsidiary seconds dial below centre. All the hands are missing.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0440
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Pocket watch movement
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Lancaster, Thomas
Date made: circa 1810
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection
Measurements: Overall: 48 x 47 x 18 mm