Record pocket watch, 1931
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
1931
Maker / issuer
Record
Pair case verge watch, outer case repoussé depicting cock surrounded by flowers and shells, heave gilt brass movement, two club hands with convex enamel dial and blue figures, pierced pillars, pendulated brass balance controlled by spring with two turns. Part of the Applied Arts and Design collection. Credit Line: Collection of the Mackelvie Trust Board, 1931, on loan to Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1932.233, H80, 17712, 656 For more details visit <a href=" http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_humanhistory-object-16141 " 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.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Brass (as described on the source photograph page)
Technical characteristics
- Escapement
- Verge escapement
Design
- Case decoration
- Enamel, Repoussé
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.