Roskopf pocket watch
Record status
Individual type · research required
Maker / issuer
Roskopf
An example of a dollar watch, featuring its original hands, casing and mechanism, viewed from the base of the watch. Both the crystal and the face are replacements and are not original to the watch. The face itself is made of paper, as was common of dollar watches. The watch uses a pin-pallet escapement, also known as a Roskopf or pin-lever escapement. 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
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
- Production date not documented by the source photograph; requires a manufacturer record or serial-number reference.
- 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.