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This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7
The Clockmakers' Museum/Clarissa Bruce
© The Clockmakers’ Charity
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7
The Clockmakers' Museum/Clarissa Bruce
© The Clockmakers’ Charity
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7
The Clockmakers' Museum/Clarissa Bruce
© The Clockmakers’ Charity
Silver pair cased watch by Larcum Kendall, halmarked 1786-7. White enamel dial with subsidiary dials for hours and seconds. Movement with pivoted detent escapement, brass balance with spiral bi-metallic compensation curb. The passing spring is operated by an inclined plane on the balance staff. Signed on the movement 'L. Kendall London B+y'
Larcum Kendall was apprenticed through the Clockmakers’ to John Jefferys. He was commissioned to make replicas of John Harrison’s 4th marine timekeeper in 1769 and 1771. This particular watch was bought from the sale of Kendall’s estate in 1795 for £30 by Benjamin Vulliamy and presented to the Clockmakers Museum by his son Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy in 1849.
Clockmakers Museum No. 422
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3335
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), enamel, silver (alloy), glass and diamond
- Measurements:
-
watch: 67 mm x 54 mm x 29 mm,
outer case: 65 mm x 62 mm x 24 mm,
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
