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Pocket watch movement with dial and hand. It has a full plate fusee movement, signed and numbered, with a table-roller lever escapement (converted from detent escapement) and Arnold-pattern 'Z' compensation balance with later added regulator and balance cock cut away. The watch has a white enamel dial with Roman numerals (hands are missing) and subsidiary seconds dial below centre with a partially missing steel hand.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0452
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Pocket watch movement
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Parkinson, James
Date made: circa 1810
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection
Measurements: Overall: 49 x 46 x 18 mm