Edmund MASSEY, 89 Strand, London. No 4032
Rare Massey family movement, circa 1850, from the Alan Treherne collection.
£35.00
Fullplate fusee movement the top plate held with screws, in best chronometer fashion. Single-roller detached lever escapement. Compensation balance, spiral balance-spring. Two-piece signed enamel dial, later (American) blued-steel hands. 46 mm diameter, 11 mm deep, not including the centre arbor.
The work of Edmund Massey who was in partnership with F J Massey at 89 Strand for many years. See Alan Treherne’s 1977 MASSEY FAMILY… exhibition catalogue.
Lacking cap and endstone jeweling, the dial with the usual hair cracks, and all rather dirty, Otherwise complete.
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Fullplate fusee movement the top plate held with screws, in best chronometer fashion. Single-roller detached lever escapement. Compensation balance, spiral balance-spring. Two-piece signed enamel dial, later (American) blued-steel hands. 46 mm diameter, 11 mm deep, not including the centre arbor.
The work of Edmund Massey who was in partnership with F J Massey at 89 Strand for many years. See Alan Treherne’s 1977 MASSEY FAMILY… exhibition catalogue.
Lacking cap and endstone jeweling, the dial with the usual hair cracks, and all rather dirty, Otherwise complete.