Pocket Watch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1887
name: label: manufacturer
content: Peoria Watch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Peoria Watch Co., Peoria, Ill., made this high-grade watch. The movement is marked with the company’s name and serial number 17672. The dial indicates the watch could be used for railroad timekeeping, where the most reliable watches and clocks were fundamental to safe and efficient operation. The definition of a railroad watch changed over time and varied among railroad companies in the nineteenth century, but by about 1920 generally accepted, closely specified standards governed almost every detail of watch construction for railway use.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0518.001
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0518.001
label: accession number
content: 1982.0518
label: serial number
content: 17672
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket watch
label: Object Name
content: watch
label: Other Terms
content: watch; pocket watch; Mechanical, Spring-Driven; pocket watch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, watch: 2 7/8 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: stem: 1 in x 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 2.2352 cm