Record pocket watch, 1869

DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.

Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

1869

Maker / issuer

Record

Watch with Hunting case, full plate oversprung fusee lever, jewelled escape wheel, cut balance with diamond endstone, left hand train, screwed plates. Hunting case has engine engraving. dome engraved "Presented to Mr James Kernick by the shareholders of the Llandberries Q.M.Co. Ballarat, October 19th 1869." Enamel dial with sunken seconds dial. Maker's name written below 12 at top of watch. Part of the Applied Arts and Design collection. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs C G Kernick, Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1966.52, H63, 28047 For more details visit <a href=" http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_humanhistory-object-1498 " rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections</a> Images released under a CC-BY licence. Auckland Museum 2019 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

Design

Case decoration
Enamel, Engraved

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

  • 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.
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