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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Electrogalvanic amulet

1870-1935

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

1885

Flat movement with horizontal escapement no. 23093

Standard metre with rack motion to be used as a machine for dividing other metres

1870-1876

Miniature wrist-watch movement

1929-1953

Brass sector, by Martel, Geneva

LHC first physics press pack

2010

Plaque, bronze, S. L. Laskowski

1916

Uniface, portrait plaque of S. L. Laskowski, anatomist

1916

Automatic watch movement

1953

Traveller's pocket instrument containing compass

1851-1900

Oldest wristwatch with a co-axial escapement, by Patek Philippe and George Daniels

1901-2000

Bedpan

1801-1890

Modern Geneva lever with independent centre seconds

1801-1900

Boxed bur cleaning block for diamond burs

1955-1970

Dumb cylinder repeater in case

1840-1842

Lever watch in case

1811-1828

Pocket Watch in Enamelled Gold Case by La Croix, 1805-1820

1805-1820

Universal 'Tri-Compax' chronographic wrist watch

1960-1986

Automatic Wrist-watch

1953

Circular Instrument Dividing Engine

1919

Enamelled watch by Dimier

1830-1850

Oval crystal-cased watch with miniature and locket by A Senebier

1630

Silver watch in the shape of a dove by Soret et Jay

1630-85

Bol Cinégraphe 35mm cine camera

1924

Transverse Axial Tomographic Unit, Italy, 1957

1957

Brass optometer

1903-1930

George Biddell Airy

1850-1892

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

1712

Drill Sharpening Grinder used by Monotype Corporation

1965

Prototype watch movement with co-axial escapement by Patek Philippe

1901-2000

Pewter hot water bottle

1801-1860

Cephalotribe; obstetric tool, Geneva, Switzerland, 1750-1850

1750-1850

'Memovox' alarm wrist-watch

1953

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Cylinder watch in case with automatic dial

1800

Gold Pocket Watch in Jewelled Case, 1810-1840

1810-1840

Rolex 'Oyster Perpetual' wristwatch, 1931.

1931

Crystal Controlled Marine Chronometer by Patek Philippe, 1965-1984

1965-1984

Chapuis, Alfred. Automates. Machines Automatiques et Machinisme (Geneva: Publications Techniques, 1928)

1928

Example of the first Rolex "Oyster" waterproof wrist-watch of 1926 (without movement), steel case

Rolex "Oyster" waterproof wrist-watch

1926

Duplicate of a Rolex Oyster wristwatch of 1960 which remained waterproof at 7 miles depth (without movement). Case back marked "35789 FEET 10908 METRES 21 ROLEX 23.1.60".

Copy of Rolex Oyster Wrist Watch, 1960

1960

Notes taken by Professor John Ellis, CERN theoretical physicist, at CERN's 4th July 2012 announcement regarding the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

Notes on discovery of Higgs Boson particle

4 July 2012

Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1795

Watch with cylinder movement

Watch

1840

Clock, recording, box, instr. case

Recording clock

1901-2000

Clock, recording with leather case

Recording clock

1901-2000

Watch

Watch

circa 1840

Phloxine tetra fu or pu... P. Monnet & Co., Geneva in Switzerland. One of a collection of colour dyes in bottles from the Colour Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, c.1900.

Dyestuffi

1900-1905