LITHERLAND, Liverpool. No 762, for Thos GREAVES, Newcastle on Tyne
Fine early rack-lever movement with rare centre-seconds work, circa 1795/1800, from the Alan Treherne collection.
£345.00
Capped fullplate fusee movement with balance-brake acting on the balance, the cock table advertising the fact of its Patent, the underside which is scratch numbered 1181, three-wheel train with maintaining power and the lever mounted in slides. Rack lever (frictional rest) escapement with 30-tooth escape wheel. Gold balance, spiral balance-spring. Enamel dial. 47.5 mm diameter, 15.6 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Thomas Greaves, Newcastle on Tyne, retailer.
Peter Litherland, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. PATENT No 1889, June 1792. A form of non-detached lever escapement that was successful not only for him and his partners but also gave rise to what soon became a burgeoning Liverpool watchmaking industry and its exports to America. NB: Examples pre-1800 are rare and, as well finished as this with centre-seconds work, even more so.
NB: Centre-seconds work is not mentioned in Litherland’s newspaper advert of 1793, but this movement is certainly “finished in the best manner” and, if originally cased in gold, as seems likely, will have been a most expensive purchase at the time.
Dial with edge chips, lacking hands and the staff with a broken pivot. Otherwise complete and a rare top quality rack-lever from this early period, of which very few are known.
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Description
Capped fullplate fusee movement with balance-brake acting on the balance, the cock table advertising the fact of its Patent, the underside which is scratch numbered 1181, three-wheel train with maintaining power and the lever mounted in slides. Rack lever (frictional rest) escapement with 30-tooth escape wheel. Gold balance, spiral balance-spring. Enamel dial. 47.5 mm diameter, 15.6 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Thomas Greaves, Newcastle on Tyne, retailer.
Peter Litherland, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. PATENT No 1889, June 1792. A form of non-detached lever escapement that was successful not only for him and his partners but also gave rise to what soon became a burgeoning Liverpool watchmaking industry and its exports to America. NB: Examples pre-1800 are rare and, as well finished as this with centre-seconds work, even more so.
NB: Centre-seconds work is not mentioned in Litherland’s newspaper advert of 1793, but this movement is certainly “finished in the best manner” and, if originally cased in gold, as seems likely, will have been a most expensive purchase at the time.
Dial with edge chips, lacking hands and the staff with a broken pivot. Otherwise complete and a rare top quality rack-lever from this early period, of which very few are known.
