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.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0395
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
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