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Hunter pocket watch
    • Setting:
      Room XVIII
    • Maker:
      Charles Frodsham
    • Place:
      London
    • Date:
      1900
    • Materials:
      gold, enamel
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 53.5 mm; thickness 17 mm
    • Inventory:
      3863
    • Hunter pocket watch (Inv. 3863)
    • Hunter pocket watch (Inv. 3863)

Watch with smooth case and enamel dial with small seconds dial below and 60-minute counter. The chronograph hands have an arrow-shaped counterweight. There is a three-quarter-plate movement and an anchor escapement. The letters "AD.Fmsz" on the dial are a cryptogram invented by the maker, Charles Frodsham, in 1850.