Record Chronograph pocket watch, 1886–1887

Pocket watch, stop, Patent Lever Chronograph pocket watch with winding key attached. Cream coloured face with blue second hand and gold coloured hour and minute hand. Roman numerals for hours. Around outside are intervals of 25. Has bow. Engraved back, back opens at hallmark. Stamped "10069" in interior back, numbers faintly engraved in interior back. Hallmark: anchor, lion, and M The hallmarked stamped inside the lid of the case of this watch indicates that the case was from Birmingham in 1886-1887, the maker being identified as LE. The movement is not necessarily of English origin. It is a fairly standard key-wound pocket watch, but with a sliding knob on the side of the case to stop or start the movement, so that the seconds hand could be used as a timer or stop watch. Part of the Applied Arts and Design collection. Credit Line: Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 2004.4 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.