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Watch with Flamenville dead-beat escapement

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold and enamel watch by Robert Robin

1785-1795

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Rock crystal and silver watch in the form of a tulip, by Sermand c.1640

1640

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

Repeating watch by William Andreas Enderlin with enamel in the manner of Jean Mussard V

1700-1725

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

1640

Watch in an octagonal silver case by Robert Grebauval

1625

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris

1780

Watch by David Margotin with a Blois Enamelled Case

1601-1700

Watch with faceted oval rock crystal case and protective outer case by John Ramsay

1625

Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 1910 which claimed 344 lives

Pocket watch

Seiko combined wristwatch and electronic calculator

1978

Working model of the co-axial escapement built by George Daniels

1985

Quarter repeating Swiss chronograph watch with lever escapement

Full plate fusee watch by Wm. Potts of Leeds and Newcastle NER 55

1840

Watch (French or Swiss) with visible balance wheel

1870-1910

Gold cased watch by Brookhouse and Tunnicliffe

1823

Full plate keyless watch by Lancashire Watch Co. of Prescot no. 328964 LNWR

1889-1960

Example of the first plastic watch

1971

Example of watch with improved plastics case

Early Omega De Ville wristwatch with Co-axial escapement

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

1786

Watch by Vulliamy, London

Watch with verge escapement

1710-1720

Cylinder watch with enamelled gold case made for Queen Charlotte

1740-1760

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Oval verge watch signed G Petit

1630

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Oval shaped watch by Henry Archer

1630

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

1790

Watch with alarm by Robert Grinkin

1610

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Silver astronomical watch by Nathaniel Barrow

1660

Silver watch with alarm by Jeremy Gregory

1670

Pair cased gold watch by Septimus Miles

1814

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

1739

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

1776

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897