Patent Model - Improvement in Stem-Winding and Hand-Setting Watch
Object Detail
Maker and Role
Charles Kidder, Patentee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Patentee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Assignee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Patentee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Assignee
Date
Jun 28 1870
Object Type
Media
Bronze, iron
Dimensions
2 1/2 x 2" (6.4 x 5.1cm)
Description
Kidder and Jones's patent objective "is to produce more convenient, and at the same time ornamental means of connecting and disconnecting the hand-setting mechanism of a watch with the system of gear-wheels connecting with the cannon-pinion and hands, than in ordinary use..." Their invention "consists in the employment of a ring of annulus fitted to the pendant of a watch-case, in such a manner as to move freely." (Patent Number 104,856)
Collection
Rothschild Patent Model Collection
Object No
2015.14.1190a,b
Currently on Display
No