Benjamin Goddard (1813-1870), Pocket Watch, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1830-1850
Cream-colored enamel dial with Roman numerals; no inscription; breguet-style hour and minute hands with thin columns, missing seconds hand
Approximately 18-size movement, gilt plate; uncompensated steel balance; right-angle Massey crank roller escapement (Type II); wedge-shaped balance cock with solid foot and table, engraved; flat, sprung-under balance spring; seven jewels, diamond cap in blued setting on the balance cock; fusee; Harrison-type maintaining power; Bosley-type regulator, key wind from back, key set from front; screws to secure barrel bridge; pins to secure top plate.
Double-bottomed (i.e., solid dome with hinge); sterling silver; looped bow; reeded band; engraving on inside of back cover: standing eagle in oval cartouches above and below the number 4609; casemaker unknown.
Typical English Liverpool-style watch; the case has a winding hole that does not line up with the square on the winding arbor--indicating that the case is probably not original to the movement.
D 2 ” 2.96.54
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