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LicenseSpring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son, London
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son, London
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
White enamel dial with subsidiary seconds dial. Gold minute and hour hands with blued steel seconds hand. Spring detent escapement with Z balance and steel helical spring of four turns. Signed ‘John Arnold & Son London Invt. et Fect. 513/814’. Gold case, stamped with casemaker's mark 'TH', and 513.
This watch was presented to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers by Sir David Salomons Bt. in 1924.
Clockmakers' Museum No. 432.
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3344
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), diamond, enamel, glass, gold (metal) and steel (metal)
- Measurements:
-
watch: 67 mm x 51 mm x 25 mm,
chain and key: 190 mm
- type:
- watch
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
