Gold watch with a red and blue champlevé enamel dial by Edward East. The fusee movement has a three wheel train,verge escapement, pinned on balance cock and ratchet wheel set-up. Signed ‘Eduardus East Londini’. c.1650. Presented to the museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers by Gerald Sydney Sanders in 1964.
Clockmakers' Museum No. 29
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3105
- Materials:
- gold (metal), enamel, brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal) and gut
- Measurements:
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overall: 39 mm x 26 mm x 17 mm,
- type:
- watch and verge movement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers