Form watch by Benjamin Hill

Made:
1650 in London
Form watch by Benjamin Hill Form watch by Benjamin Hill Form watch by Benjamin Hill

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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