Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

Made:
1792 in London
maker:
Josiah Emery
Marine timekeeper No. 1 by Josiah Emery, London, 1792 Marine timekeeper No. 1 by Josiah Emery, London, 1792

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Marine timekeeper No. 1 by Josiah Emery, London, 1792
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
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Marine timekeeper No. 1 by Josiah Emery, London, 1792
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Marine timekeeper No. 1 by Josiah Emery, London, 1792. Keyhole-shaped brass upright case with screwed on back. Engraved 'No. 1' on the front under the dial and on the back. Also with a wood and padded leather, baize-lined, protective box. White enamel dial with three subsidiary dials and gold hands for hours, minutes and seconds. Fusee movement with constant-force escapement, and bi-metallic balance running in four anti-friction rollers with diamond endstones. Signed on the movement 'Josiah Emery Charing Cross London No. 1'.

Presented to the museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers by Percy Webster in 1923. Clockmakers' Museum No. 602.

This is the surviving one of four similar machines made by Emery and submitted for trial at Greenwich in 1792, where it produced disappointing results, due to imperfections in its balance.

Details

Category:
Clockmakers
Collection:
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Object Number:
L2015-3484
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), enamel, diamond and glass
Measurements:
overall: 165 mm x 122 mm x 71 mm,
type:
constant force escapement and chronometer
credit:
Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers