Antique Sterling Silver Key Wind Pocket Watch, Enamelled Dial

Sterling silver, 50 mm open faced, key wind pocket watch. Inner…
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sterling silver, 50 mm open faced, key wind pocket watch. Inner case is marked with the British traditional Hallmarks on sterling silver, bearing a lion passant, stamped R, and Je. White Roman numeral enamelled dial with seconds sub dial at 6 o'clock. Key wind anti - clockwise movement as movement has been iftted with a fusee and it must be wound anti- clokcwise. Cuvette is engraved with the message, A.H to My father, 1856. In working order. Finished weight 98 grams.

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  • Movement - The technical name for the workings of a clock or watch, and does not include the dial or case.
  • Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
  • Fusee - The fusee movement was used in clocks and pocket watches from the mid 17th century. The fusee is a cone shaped drum within the works that is linked to the barrel of the spring, usually by a length of chain.

    As the mainspring loses its tension over time, the cone shaped barrel compensates for this by increasing the tension, by pulling the mainspring tighter, thus ensuring the time remains constant.

    Use of the fusee in clocks was superseded by the "going barrel" in the mid 19th century and for pocket watches at the beginning of the 19th century.

    The fusee continued to be used in marine chronometers until the 1970s.

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