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LicenseVerge escapement watch movement with balance-spring regulator
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Verge escapement watch movement with later enamel dial by John Shaw. One half of the balance-cock table is engraved ‘To Increase the figure will make it goe faster & to Decrease it slower’. The other half of the table is cut away to reveal the balance-spring with a regulating device for adjusting the length of the balance-spring. Beneath this is engraved 'Slower, Faster' and a scale of I-V in an arc. The backplate is signed ‘John Shaw, Holborn, 546’. London c.1690.
Shaw became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1682, and its Master in 1712.
Clockmakers' Museum No. 1210.
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-4120
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal) and enamel
- Measurements:
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overall: 51 mm x 48.5 mm x 26.5 mm,
- type:
- watch movement and verge escapement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
