- Brand: Henry Hindley, York
- Year: 1758
- Model: Verge watch
- Reference: N/A
- Calibre: N/A
- Movement: Manual
- Material: 18ct yellow gold
- Features/complications: Inner case in polished gold. Outer gold case, finely engraved with polychrome enamel floral scene and detail.. Gilded metal, full plate verge movement with chain line fusee, baluster pillars and pierced and engraved, single footed balance cock with mask at the neck, diamond end stone and steel, three-arm balance
- Dial: White enamel dial with black outer Arabic numeral minute track and Roman numeral hour markers with blued steel beetle and poker hands
- Case dimensions: Diameter 49 mm | Thickness 26 mm
- Bracelet/strap: N/A
- Accessories: N/A
- Web reference: 2305
Essay: Henry Hindley (circa 1700 - 1771), can be considered one of the greatest of York and Yorkshire clockmakers, and remains one of the most celebrated inventors and maker of scientific instruments. He invented a screw-cutting lathe, a fusee-cutting engine and an improved wheel-cutting engine and made one of the first dividing engines, for the construction of accurately-graduated arcs on scientific instruments