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.
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Object Details
ID: | ZAA0389 |
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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 |
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