Record Hunter case pocket watch, 15 jewels, 1986
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
1986
Maker / issuer
Record
Pocket watch with demi hunter case keyless 15 jewel Swiss movement, machine engraved case with chapters on outside of case around opening, metal dome, stem wound and set, enamel dial with second sub-dial, blue hands. on dial: West End Watch Co/ Competition/ Bombay, Calcutta/ Swiss Made. dome engraved: Presented to A.Monro by his friends and brother workmen at Bilaspur hallmarked 18K Part of the Applied Arts and Design collection. Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Munro, Collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1986.252, H424 For more details visit <a href=" http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_humanhistory-object-10100 " 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
- 18 carat gold (as described on the source photograph page)
Technical characteristics
- Calibre
- Calcutta
- Jewel count
- 15 jewels (as described by the source)
Design
- Case type
- Hunter case
- 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
- Escapement type not documented; requires movement examination or a horological reference.
- 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.