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English Silver Cased Fusee Key Wind Lever C1873
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English Silver Cased Fusee Key Wind Lever C1873

19th century
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English silver cased fusee lever pocket watch by R.B.Kirby of Malton hallmarked for London c1873. Key wind and time change with white enamel dial and black Roman hours with gilt hour and minute hands and subsidiary seconds dial. Full plate fusee movement with English jewelled lever escapement and numbered 17277, the silver case signed 'BW' for Benjamin Webb and stamped 'W.T.R' for William Taylor Ryley and repeating the number 17277.

Case diameter - 48mm.

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Andrew Charles Ltd has dated this Victorian Silver Pocket Watch to the 1870s.

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SA1091960
Dealers Internal Reference
PWAF026
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English silver cased fusee lever pocket watch by R.B.Kirby of Malton hallmarked for London c1873.
Key wind and time change with white enamel dial and black Roman hours with gilt hour and minute hands and subsidiary seconds dial.
Andrew Charles Ltd

Full plate fusee movement with English jewelled lever escapement and numbered 17277, the silver case signed 'BW' for Benjamin Webb and stamped 'W.T.R' for William Taylor Ryley and repeating the number 17277.

Case diameter - 48mm.

Date of Manufacture

Andrew Charles Ltd has dated this Victorian Silver Pocket Watch to the 1870s.

Reference Numbers
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SA1091960
Dealers Internal Ref
PWAF026
Andrew Charles Ltd
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Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring.
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Archive I Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring.

English Silver Cased Fusee Key Wind Lever c1873

Archive II Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View II
Archive III Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View III
Archive IV Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View IV
Archive V Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View V
Archive VI Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View VI
Archive VII Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View VII
Archive VIII Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring. View VIII
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Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring.
English Silver Cased Fusee Key Wind Lever c1873
Ref: SA1091960
Victorian English silver pocket watch featuring a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, gold hands, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a top suspension ring.
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A fusee mechanism uses a cone-shaped pulley and a fine chain driven by the mainspring barrel to equalise the power delivered to the movement as the spring unwinds. This design was widely adopted in British watchmaking during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to maintain accurate timekeeping.

Nineteenth-century English pocket watches typically feature sterling silver or gold cases, vitreous enamel dials over copper plates, brass movement plates, and steel balance springs, often fitted with glass crystals over the face.

Authentic Victorian examples feature stamped hallmarks on the interior of the case indicating the silver purity, assay office, date letter, and maker mark. Additional indicators include key-wind arbors on the back or dial and mechanical movement signatures.

Pocket watches can be displayed using specialized pocket watch stands, placed under glass cloches, mounted inside box frames, or arranged on a desk or library shelf alongside historical decorative objects.

Keep the timepiece in a dry environment to prevent corrosion, wind the mechanism carefully with the correct size key without forcing it, polish the silver case gently with a microfiber cloth, and seek professional horological servicing for mechanical maintenance.
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