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Hunter pocket watch
    • Setting:
      Room XVIII
    • Maker:
      James William Benson
    • Place:
      London
    • Date:
      1886
    • Materials:
      gold
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 53 mm; thickness 15.5 mm
    • Inventory:
      3862
    • Hunter pocket watch (Inv. 3862)

Watch with a smooth case. The dial, finely engraved and signed by James William Benson, carries the small seconds dial. The two large superposed hands for the chronograph are attached at the center. They are independent, each with its own start, stop, and reset button. This allows separate and simultaneous timing of two different events. There is a movement of the three-quarter-plate type and a English-lever escapement.