Record pocket watch, 1931

Watch with perforated gilt case round pendant watch with hour strike and alarm, brass wheels, turned pillars, verge escapement with brass balance wheel controlled by balance spring with 2« turns. Movement has been converted from stackfeed and hog's bristle to balance spring with sliding index - probably in 18th century. Striking and going springs in fretwork barrels. alarm spring in plain barrel. Silver chapter ring with gilt alarm disc. Single hand. Gilt brass case is engraved front and back, with finely pierced side, detailed engraving of a coat of arms on back. Dial plate with movement attached swings out and bezel is hinged to dial plate. Hands are missing. 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, H95, 17701, 644 For more details visit <a href=" http://www.auckl 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.