Here's an odd one

[Barry Parker]

This is a rather unusual one worth having a look at.
Scottish dead seconds fusee watch 33 jewels
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2643607093&category=3940

Barry Parker

[Barry Parker]

This is a rather unusual one worth having a look at.
Scottish dead seconds fusee watch 33 jewels
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2643607093&category=3940

Barry Parker

[Tom McIntyre]

Unusual watch, but I don't think it is a fuzee. The 3 squares are for the time train, the independent seconds train and hand setting.

The great bulk of these are Swiss, but this one does have an English look about it.

Tom McIntyre
2nd VP Elect
Tommy the JOAT's Web (http://www.AWCo.org)

[Oliver Mundy]

“English” indeed! - and this from a man bearing a guid Scots name too!

Joking apart, I agree with Tom that the watch looks British-made; Swiss watches rarely have the name and full address engraved on the backplate in this way. I do think, however, that it is after all a fusee movement. Half-way between the L of ‘Laing’ and the N of ‘No.’ one can see the end of a stout steel arbor, much too thick to belong to a train-wheel; this surely indicates a spring-barrel. There are two similar but slightly smaller holes piercing the Ls of ‘William’, exactly where one would expect to find the fusee detent and the mounting screw for the stop-lever spring.

The Watch Cabinet (http://www.horologia.co.uk)

[This message was edited by Oliver Mundy on June 29, 2003 at 3:32.]

[Maurice Richesson]

Sorry Tom. I think Oliver has got it right.
Could it be a fusee for the time train and a
going barrel for the jump second train?

Maurice

[Dr. Jon]

I too lean toward English but with some caution. It may be a dummy fusee to get the key wind direction right, and I'd like ot see the escape wheel teeth. The vies show neither the lever or this wheel which is a bit odd.

Still it is lovely watch

Dr. Jon