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Description: | Pocket watch in a silver pair case. 30-hour duration, single train, gilt brass, four pillar fusee movement with verge escapement. Flat steel balance with flat spiral balance spring. Tompion style regulator on slide plate with silver regulating disc engraved '5 - 30'. Engraved and pierced balance cock deppicting an urn. Engraved on the potence plate: 'Jn Chapman', 'No 513', 'Loughbro'. Convex enamel dial with narrow Roman hour numerals and minute track. White metal poker minute hand, hour hand broken. Silver pair case, hallmarked London 1784-5 with maker's incuse stamp 'EL' (possibly Edward Leeming). Engraved on the inner case back: 'Thomas Masterman Hardy', '1804'. Engraved on the outer case back: 'TMH'. Stamped inside the bezel with a lion passant cameo. The outer case back is fitted with a glued in cloth liner. Bullseye glass over dial. The pendant and bow are replacements. the hands and dial are later replacements (dial circa 1830). According to 'Leicesteshire Clockmakers' by John Daniell, John Chapman was a member of the Society of Leicestershire Watch and Clockmakers, founded in 1795. In 1781 Edward Leeming was registered as a case maker at 24 Giltspur Street, London. Attached to this object is a shark tooth pendant, consisting of a single shark's tooth in a simple silver setting with a soldered mount ring. It is engraved 'EH. 1799'. The pendant is attched to the watch via a silver jump ring and a length of green cord.
caption: Watch | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | watches (timepieces) Edward Lowe (Case Maker) Thomas (probably) John Chapman Hardy | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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