Pocket watch
Category
Horology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
67 x 49 x 10 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748898.3
Summary
Blue cardboard watch box containing a small piece of chamois leather and a pocket watch. The pocket watch - A metal pocket watch, tat has begun to rust on the back. With a top pin winder and metal hoop fob. The face is white with black markings. The numbers are written with two minute marks between, number six is missing replaced by a smaller dial marking the seconds numerically in tens and the seconds between. To either side of the bottom of the seconds dial 'SWISS MADE'. In an arc beneath the top numbers; 'CHRONOMETER MAKER TO THE ADMIRALITY GUARANTEED BY JOHN HAWLEY COVENTRY'. Between John Hawley and Coventry is a picture of a persons hand holding a pocket watch.