A NEW CONSTRUCTION OR METHOD FOR THE MAKING OF WATCHES, WHICH I, THE SAID DAVID MARIE, HUMBLY PRESUME WILL PROVE OF GREATER UTILITY TO THE PURLICK THAN ANY OTHER YET EXTANT; AS, ACCORDING TO THIS MY NEW- INVENTED CONSTRUCTION, THE WATCH IS SO CONTRIVED AS TO PERFORM WITHOUT A CHAIN, THE USE OF WHICH OFTEN SUBJECTS IT TO DISORDER, AND ENDANGERS ITS BREAKING; THAT IT IS WOUND UP BY A SINGLE TURN, AND THEREBY KEPT IN MOTION THIRTY HOURS, AND DURING THE TIME OF WINDING CONTINUES ITS USUAL MOTION, WHICH ENTIRELY PREVENTS IT FROM THE INCONVENIENCE OF LOSING ANY TIME, AND THAT LET THE WATCH BE WOUND EITHER WAY IT CANNOT RECEIVE ANY DAMAGE
Year: 1762

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
MARIE, of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
Watchmaker, send greating.
WHEREAS I, the said David Marie, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto Ilis present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that after
long study and application, and being at great expence, I have found out and
invented "A NEW CONSTRUCTION OR METHOD FOR THE MAKING OF WATCHES,
WHICH I, THE SAID DAVID MARIE, HUMBLY PRESUME WILL PROVE OF GREATER UTILITY
TO THE PURLICK THAN ANY OTHER YET EXTANT; AS, ACCORDING TO THIS MY NEW-
INVENTED CONSTRUCTION, THE WATCH IS SO CONTRIVED AS TO PERFORM WITHOUT A
CHAIN, THE USE OF WHICH OFTEN SUBJECTS IT TO DISORDER, AND ENDANGERS ITS
BREAKING; THAT IT IS WOUND UP BY A SINGLE TURN, AND THEREBY KEPT IN MOTION
THIRTY HOURS, AND DURING THE TIME OF WINDING CONTINUES ITS USUAL MOTION,
WHICH ENTIRELY PREVENTS IT FROM THE INCONVENIENCE OF LOSING ANY TIME, AND
THAT LET THE WATCH BE WOUND EITHER WAY IT CANNOT RECEIVE ANY DAMAGE;"
that in regard this construction or method of making watches as aforesaid is
entirely new, and of mine, the said David Marie's, own finding out and dis-
covering, and had not thitherto been put in practice by any other person or
persons whatsoever to my knowledge, information, or beleif, I did therefore
humbly pray is said Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adñiors, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole making and vending of all such
watches as shall be of this new construction in that part of His Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of
fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided, His

page_text: said Majesty, being willing to give encouragem' to all arts and inventions which
may be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my
request, and therefore His said Majesty, by His Letters Patent, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of April, in the second year of His reign,
of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His
heirs, executors, and administrators, did give and grant unto me, the said
David Marie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said David Maric, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves,
and by our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
David Marie, my executors, administrators, or assigns, shall at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, in such manner as to me, the said David Marie, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or any of us, shall in our discretions seem meet; and
that I, the said David Marie, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, shall
and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, coñiodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrueing, and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein-after mentioned;
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the
said David Marie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next
and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso, that if I, the said David Maric, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Marie, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say):
First, the watch is wound up with one turn; that is, the barrel has but one
turn, yet keeps going thirty hours, also keeps going during the time of wind-
ing, by reason I only make use of the last turn of the spring, which I called
period, because it is equal to itself. I make no use of a chain or fuzec, not
having occasion for them. As to wheel and pinions, the first is the arber or pinion
to the barrel which winds up the spring carried six teeth, and is marked with
the letter A, and plays into a steel wheel of eight teeth, marked B; and this
wheel has a large plain tooth, and serves to hinder the watch from being over
wound; and there is a large rochett marked I upon the plate, with a large
click marked K, which plays into the said rochett and serves to hinder the
watch from being wound the wrong way. And there is also a barr fixed
to the barrel to keep the spring in its proper strength. The first large brass
wheel fixed to the barrel, marked C; the second wheel, marked D; the third
wheel or center wheel, marked E; the fourth wheel, marked I'; the fifth
wheel, marked G; the ballance wheel, marked H, placed according to the
callipper hereunto annexed; the rest like as in other watches.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Maric, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-two.
Inrolled the Fifth day of August, in the second year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third, 1762.