We use only the finest diamond-tipped machine cutters for engraving. These are housed in engineered metal casings and each fob watch is supplied with a chain for attaching on to the lining of jackets and waistcoats. An appropriate gift to mark a special moment, the engraved timepieces are fitted with a range of movements including Quartz, mechanical, Japanese and Swiss, ensuring precise accuracy and reliability. The cylinder escapement, however, was incorporated by the British pocket watch maker George Graham and kept much more accurate time.Įngravers Guild of London is pleased to present this custom selection of gold, silver and rose gold coloured pocket watches, to be personalised with custom inscription. This superseded the verge escapement which did not house any jewels at the point of contact within the movement and so resulted in considerable friction – which often resulted in the best timepieces gaining or losing an hour every day. The most significant development in the century, though, was the introduction of the cylinder escapement movement.
However, in the latter part of the 1700s, engraved pocket watches became more attainable and cheap watches (albeit still handmade) were being sold to sailors with colourful nautical illustrations. So expensive were personalised pocket watches before this time that adverts regularly ran in British newspapers offering rewards of up to five guineas for information pertaining to the recovery of a stolen timepiece – that is approximately £1,250 in today’s money. The 18th century saw the proliferation of pocket watches to the masses. Engravings and piercings were made on the protective cases (the dials were not covered by glass), and later there was a trend for unusually shaped timepieces such as animals, household items and even “death skulls”. While these were often simply embellished at the beginning of the century, designs became increasingly elaborate and were the early forebears of today’s personalised pocket watch.
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The movement, meanwhile, was fashioned out of iron or steel and held together by a series of metal wedges which also supported a number of striking mechanisms. Their designed featured on a heavy drum shaped brass cylinder which was about a dozen centimetres in diameter, around which a single hour hand would turn. Resembling more of a small clock than a watch as we know them today, these “clock-watches” were usually fastened to clothing or hung around the neck on a chain. The 16th century heralded a new age where timepieces were able to be worn about the person for the fist time in history.
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Solid Silver Pocket Watch – Full Hunter.Hallmarked Solid Silver Pocket Watch – Full Hunter.Woodford Sterling Silver Swiss Made Pocket Watch.Double Hunter Reverse Porthole Pocket Watch – Gold.Double Hunter Reverse Porthole Pocket Watch – Silver.Woodford Gold Mechanical Personalised Pocket Watch.Woodford Mechanical Personalised Pocket Watch.Woodford Tri-Dial Personalised Pocket Watch.