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Silver watch in the shape of a Tudor rose by William Clay

1640

Probang, gum elastic, gut and sponge

Beaded necklace with an eagle's wing drinking tube

1850-1920

Oval verge watch signed G Petit

1630

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Small drum-shaped clock from the second quarter of the 16th Century

1525-1550

Black and white enamel verge watch by Goullons, Paris

1650

Silver watch by Thomas Taylor

1658

Pre-balance-spring era watch movement by Thomas Tompion c.1671

1671

Early English verge watch by Michael Nouwen

1600

Silver watch with sytlised pomegranate case by Edward East

1650

Longcase clock movement by Thomas Bradford

1690-1695
Carding machine by Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), England, 1771-1780. Believed to be from Cromford Mill, Derbyshire.

Carding machine by Richard Arkwright, 1775, believed to be from Cromford Mill, Derbyshire.

c.1775
Longcase clock movement with anchor escapement

Longcase clock movement

1700
Pair-cased watch by Jeremy Gregory, c. 1670. Outer case covered with leather and studded with gold, the inner made of rock-crystal with gilt mounts. Silver dial with decoratively engraved centre and single hand. Movement with verge escapement, tulip pillars and worm-and-wheel set-up regulator. Signed on the backplate ‘Jeremie Gregory att the Royal Exchange’. Clockmakers' Museum No. 38

Pair-cased watch with rock crystal inner case by Jeremy Gregory

1670
Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1650
Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1660
Rose engine lathe by Hulot Fils 1768, mounted on table with treadle drive and complete with slide rest and chucks

Rose engine lathe by Hulot Fils 1768

1768
Balloon-end, from gum elastic catheter, c. 1890

Balloon-end, from gum elastic catheter, c. 1890

1851-1920
Maudslay triangular lathe, with overhead gear, tool cabinet and one two jaw independent chuck; one eccentric chuck; 1 steady rest; 1 slide rest; one T rest; attachment for cutting screw threads; nine small chucks and bearing blocks.

Triangular Bar Lathe by H. Maudslay & Co., London, 1812-1820

1812-1820