Patent Model - Improvement in Stem-Winding and Hand-Setting Watch
Maker and role
Charles Kidder, Patentee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Patentee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Assignee
Production date
Jun 28 1870
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Bronze, iron
Measurements
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
Object number
2015.14.1190a,b
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