Help needed to identify movement

[johnno]

I need to find a donor movement (looking for a balance wheel and balance staff). Can you help in trying to identify the movement? It’s a large size pocket watch with not a lot of info to go on I am afraid. The movement itself measures at 53.77mm.

[randy]

Johnno.
Looks to be a watch movement very similar to this.
http://acquris.se/media/product.php?id=488&lang=en

Many manufacturers of the time may have used this ebauche, or movement style.

I would suggest fishing on Ebay and other sites for a watch with similar markings / size, movement layout.

Good luck !

Randy

[johnno]

Thanks, Randy.

That’s an interesting site you linked to. I don’t suppose that is still for sale, I tried to follw the more info link but it came up with an “Object Eror”

Cheers
John

[johnno]

ps. Any idea how a remontoire works inside a pocket watch as I thought that was a system only used in clocks? Some kind of spring?

[randy]

Johnno
Here’s the answer I believe :
Many French and Swiss pocketwatches after 1860 were stamped on the back with the word Remontoire. This merely meant that they didn’t have to be wound with a key (i.e. they were wound by the then-novel winding crown inside the pendant). Etymologically the term is correct, the mainspring is “rewound” by some other force than a key, but these watches usually do not contain a remontoire as the word is used today.[

[johnno]

Excellent! Thank you kindly good sir.

[randy]

My pleasure !!!

Randy

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