| A large 19th Century English fusee lever used as the first watch on an early British railway. Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement with rear hand set. Harrison's maintaining power. Engraved cock, plain three arm steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. English table roller lever escapement. Signed
white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Very substantial plain open face, hinged rear cuvette with apertures for wind and hand set, the movement also hinging out of the front. Unusually the front bezel is opened by depressing a small button concealed by the back cover. , maker's mark "IJTN" in a rectangle and number corresponding to that on the movement. The back of the watch inscribed "The property of the Caledonian Railway Co.
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