Watch movement, Newark Watch Works
date: label: date made
content: ca 1869
name: label: maker
content: Newark Watch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Made about 1869, this watch was the product of the short-lived (1864-1869) Newark Watch Company, Newark, N.J., a company formed at the end of the Civil War to tap into the market for American-made watches created by the American Waltham Watch Co.
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content: Details:
label: Description
content: Movement: spring-driven, full plate, gilt finish, 18 Size, 15 jewels, key wind at back and key set at front, bimetallic compensation balance, level escapement; marked: “THE NEWARK WATCH/FULL-JEWEL’D/10609/Patent/Newark, N.J.
label: Description
content: Dial: White enamel w/Roman numerals, blued steel hands (second hand missing), sunk seconds at 6; marked “Newark Watch Works”
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content: References:
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content: Urquhart, Frank J. <i>A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey</i>. Vol. 3. 1913: Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013.
label: Description
content: Henry G. Abbott, <i>The Watch Factories of America</i>, (Chicago: G. K. Hazleitt & Co., 1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James Arthur Collection, New York University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0416.242
label: serial number
content: 10609
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0416.242
label: accession number
content: 1984.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket watch movement, gold
label: Object Name
content: pocket watch movement
label: Object Name
content: watch movement
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1 13/16 in; 1.27 cm x 4.572 cm