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Description: | Pocket watch (relic) in a silver case. The movement of this watch cannot be accessed, being rusted into its case, but is almost certainly a 30-hour duration, single trian, gilt brass, four pillar fusee movement with ratchet tooth, lever escarpment and plain balance with flat spiral balance spring. An aperture in the gilt metal cap reveals the endstone in a screwed setting. Flat enamel dial with Roman hour numerals, minute circle and subsidiary seconds dial with Arabic ten seconds numerals and seconds circle. Signed 'A.MYERS', 'LONDON', stamp 'CBH' (Cornelius Brook Holliday). Engine turned case back with central reserve. Milled decoration to the band. Plain silver pendant and bow. Illegible stamp marks to the pendant. This watch is believed to be one of the relics of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition. The maker, A. Myers, probably Abraham Myers, is known to have worked in London between 1839 and 1857, and specifically at 70 Leman Street between 1840 and 1842. In 1837 Cornelius Brook Holliday was registered as a case maker at 21 Queen Street, Percival Street, Clerkenwell.
caption: Watch | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | watches (timepieces) Cornelius Brook A. Myers Franklin John Holliday | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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