Antique Silver Pocket Watch, Errington for Hinds

The watch has a stem-winding movement which is working nicely. The movement was made by the Coventry watch maker Charles Errington as a private label piece for Hinds Ltd of London. Hinds started in Lincolnshire in 1825 when Joseph Hinds offered a clock making service. The business traded very successfully eventually culminating in the chain of High Street jewellers F Hinds.

The movement is protected by an inner hinged cover.

The watch measures 50mm diameter excluding the winding stem and the loop. The case is silver and there are hallmarks inside the two case backs for Chester 1899 with a maker’s mark for Charles Errington.

The Errington Watch Company was set up in the 1880s and subsequently bought by H Williamson around 1896. Charles Errington continued to work for the business until his retirement in 1910.

The case is in good condition for such an early piece, general light surface marking and a little unevenness to the back of the watch.

The glass lens is in lovely condition.

The dial is signed Hinds Ltd, London. Pin-set blued steel hands, a sunken subsidiary seconds dial and outer minute markers. There is a hairline running up through the centre of the dial, and several towards the perimeter although all fairly faint.

The watch comes in a new presentation box.

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