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Description: | 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.
. AQN: Foulkes, R K (owner). Half-plate watch movement. Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement, but with passing and locking pieces on separate blocks. Free-sprung bimetallic balance with screws (broken staff); helical balance spring.
caption: Watch Movement | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Pocket chronometer chronometer movements pocket chronometers Chronometer | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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