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11 Willard Street
North Grafton MA 01536

5088393500

The Willard House & Clock Museum is a historic place with festive roots, right in the heart of Massachusetts. Come visit us for a guided tour of our museum.

Benjamin Goddard (1813-1870), Pocket Watch, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1830-1850

2.96.54 Willard House and Clock Museum, Robinson bequest

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.

2.96.54 Detail

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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