Thomas RUSSELL, Liverpool
Rare S J Morgan’s Patent rough movement, circa 1900.
£45.00
18-size hollow-back (no brass-edge) three-quarter plate Lancashire frame, intended to be finished with Morgan’s Patent differential up/down work – note the pillar-plate cut for the long horizontally mounted pinion. 47 mm diameter.
Thomas Russell, one of the largest and most important Liverpool watch manufacturers of the period, the only manufacturer’s of Morgan’s Patent watches.
S J Morgan, PATENT No 20,134, October 1899. Winding indication for going barrel watches (much harder to achieve than with a fusee) incorporating differential gearing using a tangential pinion running within a slot in the pillar plate. NB. Russell produced two forms of this Patent, this being their best quality example having centre-seconds and a sector up/down at the 6-o-clock position.
Previously sold by me in my Postal Auction Catalogue No 7 of March, 2003, item 98. Frame only, in good unpolished condition.
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18-size hollow-back (no brass-edge) three-quarter plate Lancashire frame, intended to be finished with Morgan’s Patent differential up/down work – note the pillar-plate cut for the long horizontally mounted pinion. 47 mm diameter.
Thomas Russell, one of the largest and most important Liverpool watch manufacturers of the period, the only manufacturer’s of Morgan’s Patent watches.
S J Morgan, PATENT No 20,134, October 1899. Winding indication for going barrel watches (much harder to achieve than with a fusee) incorporating differential gearing using a tangential pinion running within a slot in the pillar plate. NB. Russell produced two forms of this Patent, this being their best quality example having centre-seconds and a sector up/down at the 6-o-clock position.
Previously sold by me in my Postal Auction Catalogue No 7 of March, 2003, item 98. Frame only, in good unpolished condition.
