Pocket watch, 1900s
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
1900s
Drawing of a pocketwatch movement from the early 1900s, with the upper plate removed to show the parts. The numbered parts are identified in the caption as: 1.First or main wheel to which mainspring is attached 2.Second or center wheel 3.Third wheel 4. Fourth wheel 5.Escape wheel 6.Pallet, with pallet jewels 7.Lever 8.Balance 9.Hairspring 10.Roller. Alterations: removed frame and caption, sharpened. Documented from an openly licensed real-object photograph on Wikimedia Commons; only the details stated by that source are recorded here. Remaining specifications are marked research required rather than estimated.
Technical characteristics
- Escapement
- Lever escapement
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Maker not stated on the source photograph page; requires a signed movement or case examination.
- Jewel count and calibre not documented.
- Serial-number dating, case dimensions and weight remain untranscribed.
- No catalogue reference number is asserted; standard horological catalogues have not been transcribed for this specimen.