Identification Help

[neighmond]

I can't help you on the identity of the watch, but here is the lowdown on your last question:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ken Hags:
There is one very strange item in the guts of the movement: There are two curved arms with what look like tiny marbel on the end of each arm. When the repeater is engaged, these arms spin and separate while spinning...they seem to act as a fly-wheel.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That would be the governor. It serves the same purpose as the governor on a victrola, or the "fan" in a clock does-it regulates and evens out the speed the repeating train operates at. Earlier repeaters used an anchor and 'scape wheel, rather like an alarm clock, and the speed was regulated by moving in or out a banking spring that the tail of the anchor played against. On many very old repeaters, the speed was controled by a pinion seated in an accentric bushing-the deeper the engagement the slower ran the train. the centrifigual (sp?) governor is a great improvement, as it is free from the buzzing noise of the old anchor-governed repeaters.

Fwiw
Chaz

Every man must have a purpose to strive for
A cause to fight for
A dream to live for
Because
A man without a dream is dead.

[Jeff Hess]

As a bit of peripheral, rather anecdotal info, there was a fellow by that name who was with the EIGHTY FOURTH REGIMENT of the Pennyslvania Volunteers in the Civil War (This was one of the noted regiments from the State).

Could this be the guy who owned it?
ARe you from PA area? Jeff

JPH

[Jeff Hess]

um, no.

but Charles William Forester was...


:wink:

Jeff Hess

JPH

[neighmond]

Ken,

A search of my current and old repair logs shows a five-minute repeater with a centrifugal(sp?) governor finished from an eubache by a Liverpool watchmaker and cased in a coin silver demi-hunter case from Birmingham (England) in 1891, according to the hallmarks.

Of the seven repeating watches in my repair logs, this is the oldest repeater with the governor we speak of.

I am sure there people in plenty around here that can roust out a patent or listing of some sort that could more accurately pin it down, but that'll give some idea. I remain

at your service,
Chaz

Every man must have a purpose to strive for
A cause to fight for
A dream to live for
Because
A man without a dream is dead.