Rare Silver Massey Type 1 Pocket Watch
Hallmarked Chester, 1821
This is a very rare English silver key wind pair-case pocket watch with a Massey Type 1 lever, made by Robert Roskell and hallmarked Chester, 1821. It comes with its original key making it a pocket watch collector’s treasure!
Dial: The white enamel unsigned dial has Roman numerals and hour markers with outer minute divisions. It has a slight hairline crack by the 11, but this does not detract from the overall condition of the watch.
The dial has blued hands and a subsidiary second’s dial at the six that rotates every 15 seconds.
Movement: This watch movement is protected by a dust cover. It has a patented Edward Massey type 1 lever with a three-armed balance wheel and a 30-tooth escapement with an engraved cock marked ‘Patent’. It has a diamond end stone and a stop lever at the seven. The movement is signed “Robert Roskell Liverpool” and numbered 27472.
This watch has just come back from my watchmaker and the movement is in great working condition. However, we are not able to guarantee the accuracy of any antique pocket watch.
Case: The watch lies in a key wind silver pair-case open-face case with bull’s-eye glass. The inner side of the case is hallmarked Chester, 1821.
(The diagram named Massey – Lever 1 was reproduced by permission of David Penney. Thank you, David.)
Outer Case Diameter: 55 mm - Weight: 160.2g
Hallmarked Chester, 1821
British Museum Biography: Watchmaker. Edward Massey Junior is the inventor and patentee of mechanical logs and sounding machines as well as the inventor and maker of a series of detached lever escapements commonly referred to as 'Massey Levers’.
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