Object Details
- Newark Watch Co.
- Description
- Made about 1869, this watch was the product of the short-lived (1864-1869) Newark Watch Company, Newark, N.J., a company formed at the end of the Civil War to tap into the market for American-made watches created by the American Waltham Watch Co.
- Details:
- Movement: spring-driven, full plate, gilt finish, 18 Size, 15 jewels, key wind at back and key set at front, bimetallic compensation balance, level escapement; marked: “THE NEWARK WATCH/FULL-JEWEL’D/10609/Patent/Newark, N.J.
- Dial: White enamel w/Roman numerals, blued steel hands (second hand missing), sunk seconds at 6; marked “Newark Watch Works”
- References:
- Urquhart, Frank J. A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey. Vol. 3. 1913: Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013.
- Henry G. Abbott, The Watch Factories of America, (Chicago: G. K. Hazleitt & Co., 1888).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- James Arthur Collection, New York University
- ca 1869
- ID Number
- 1984.0416.242
- serial number
- 10609
- catalog number
- 1984.0416.242
- accession number
- 1984.0416
- Object Name
- pocket watch movement, gold
- pocket watch movement
- watch movement
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 1 13/16 in; 1.27 cm x 4.572 cm
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- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1203347
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-7046-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
