English Watchmaking
Arnold & Frodsham free-sprung spring detent chronometer, circa 1846.
Modified by adding a keyless winder on the fusee square, consisting of a gilt brass, round plate with a hinged handle. This later addition partly obscures the plate inscriptions.
- A study of the correct forms for teeth and methods for the calculation of trains, including an appendix on English practices at the time.
- A brief discussion of a few machines used in watchmaking.
- Extensively annotated version of the French diary.
- An article examining the business of Samuel Jones and the English watches sold by him, circa 1817.
Watkins: "Berthoud, Harrison and Lalande, a near myth" (2005)
- An article analysing Lalande's "Diary of a trip to England 1763" in its horological context.
Watkins: "The BHI and American watchmaking, 1858-1862" (2011)
- Subtitled "Three Unfortunate Mistakes", this article looks at the reaction of the British Horological Institute to American watchmaking.
Watkins: "Why did the Lancashire Watch Company Fail?" (2018)
- The history of the Lancashire Watch Company (England) analysing the reasons for its four different failures.
Illustration: Arnold & Frodsham free-sprung spring detent chronometer, circa 1846.
Modified by add class="index"ing a keyless winder on the fusee square, consisting of a gilt brass, round plate with a hinged handle. This later add class="index"ition partly obscures the plate inscriptions.