LITHERLAND, DAVIES & Co, Liverpool. No 9274
Good ‘PATENT LEVER DETACHED’ movement with Massey-1 escapement, circa 1820.
£95.00
Top quality Lancashire fullplate movement with going fusee (brass maintaining wheel), the underside of the cock foot scratch numbered. Massey detached lever escapement with type-1 steel roller – see my drawing of this escapement. Steel balance, spiral balance-spring. 38.5 mm diameter.
The firm of Peter Litherland, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, known for their invention of the rack-lever escapement but also one of the first watch manufacturers to fit the new detached lever escapements of Massey, Hornby and Savage.
NB: Alan Treherne designated the various Massey escapements numbers in the order he identified them. They are not an indication of which came first. Over the years it has become clear that the steel roller, type-1, was the earliest to be used, apart that is, from the very first form shown in his 1812 Patent application. At some point around 1820 Massey started to offer jewelled rollers, the type-5 being the earliest. This was followed by the type-2 roller, which itself was soon followed by type-3, the most common. Of all the rollers the type-5, a form of double-roller as shown in Massey’s 1813 Patent, is certainly the most difficult to find.
Lacking dial, hands and brass-edge Otherwise complete and in very nice crisp condition, the movement never having been capped. Not cleaned by me but will tick happily when wound
NB: Signed prints of my drawing of this escapement on best quality archival paper are available, priced at £50 plus p+p.
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Description
Top quality Lancashire fullplate movement with going fusee (brass maintaining wheel), the underside of the cock foot scratch numbered. Massey detached lever escapement with type-1 steel roller – see my drawing of this escapement. Steel balance, spiral balance-spring. 38.5 mm diameter.
The firm of Peter Litherland, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, known for their invention of the rack-lever escapement but also one of the first watch manufacturers to fit the new detached lever escapements of Massey, Hornby and Savage.
NB: Alan Treherne designated the various Massey escapements numbers in the order he identified them. They are not an indication of which came first. Over the years it has become clear that the steel roller, type-1, was the earliest to be used, apart that is, from the very first form shown in his 1812 Patent application. At some point around 1820 Massey started to offer jewelled rollers, the type-5 being the earliest. This was followed by the type-2 roller, which itself was soon followed by type-3, the most common. Of all the rollers the type-5, a form of double-roller as shown in Massey’s 1813 Patent, is certainly the most difficult to find.
Lacking dial, hands and brass-edge Otherwise complete and in very nice crisp condition, the movement never having been capped. Not cleaned by me but will tick happily when wound
NB: Signed prints of my drawing of this escapement on best quality archival paper are available, priced at £50 plus p+p.