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Science Museum Group/The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group/The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group/The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Form watch by Benjamin Hill, London, c.1650. Silver case cast in the style of a pomegranate. Silver dial with engraved hour circle and sunk matt centre engraved with a flower to the centre. Steel hour hand with long tail. Movement with verge escapement, train of three wheels, worm and wheel set-up regulator with silver dial and steel tracery, and long oval screwed-on balance cock. Signed on the backplate 'Benjamin Hill Londini'. Clockmakers' Museum No. 28.
Hill worked in Fleet Street. He became a freeman of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1640, and its Master in 1657. He died in 1670.
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3104
- Materials:
- silver (alloy), brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal) and glass
- Measurements:
-
overall: 50 mm x 43.5 mm x 15 mm,
- type:
- watch and verge movement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
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