GRAYHURST, Harvey & Co, London. No 8500
Good Savage 2-pin lever movement, circa 1825.
£125.00
Capped fullplate fusee movement with cap jewels on balance (diamond) and escape, the cap stamped LxR, as often associated with the best London work of the period. Savage form of detached lever escapement, the so-called 2-pin escapement. Gold balance, spiral balance-spring. Lovely one-piece signed enamel dial, later hands. 45 mm diameter, 11 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
The watchmaking/retailing partnership of Michael Grayhurst and Harvey, at 65 Strand, London, recorded as being in business between circa 1805-1829.
George Savage, Huddersfield and London, inventor (circa 1814) of what I consider the best form of detached lever escapement, in which the safety pin also receives the impulse. With finer tolerances than the normal detached lever escapements, the ‘Savage 2-pin’ as it has come to be called, was always more expensive to fit. Examples are much more uncommon than the English Massey and single-roller variants. NB: The part waisted lever in this movement, with the two pins closer than normal in the roller, is a less common variant.
Dial with hair cracks and later hands. Otherwise complete and, although not cleaned by me, will just about tick when wound.
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Capped fullplate fusee movement with cap jewels on balance (diamond) and escape, the cap stamped LxR, as often associated with the best London work of the period. Savage form of detached lever escapement, the so-called 2-pin escapement. Gold balance, spiral balance-spring. Lovely one-piece signed enamel dial, later hands. 45 mm diameter, 11 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
The watchmaking/retailing partnership of Michael Grayhurst and Harvey, at 65 Strand, London, recorded as being in business between circa 1805-1829.
George Savage, Huddersfield and London, inventor (circa 1814) of what I consider the best form of detached lever escapement, in which the safety pin also receives the impulse. With finer tolerances than the normal detached lever escapements, the ‘Savage 2-pin’ as it has come to be called, was always more expensive to fit. Examples are much more uncommon than the English Massey and single-roller variants. NB: The part waisted lever in this movement, with the two pins closer than normal in the roller, is a less common variant.
Dial with hair cracks and later hands. Otherwise complete and, although not cleaned by me, will just about tick when wound.