BARWISE JOHN London c.1820 Fusee best Pocket Watch Movement

best BARWISE JOHN London c.1820 Fusee Pocket Watch Movement
Size :
Diam 46.50mm

Condition : for parts or repair. Chain is on place
Balance : broken

John Barwise 'Chronometer, Watch & Clock Makers to their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Kent, Cumberland & Gloucester' 29 St Martin's Lane, London. John Barwise was the son of a clockmaker from Cockermouth, he is recorded as working in London from circa 1790, a fine maker of clocks, chronometers and watches. In 1805 he was one of fifteen watchmakers selected by the board of Longitude to adjudicate in the dispute between Thomas Earnshaw and John Arnold. The others included Barraud, Brockbank, Grant, Hardy, Haley, Molyneux, Pennington and Recordon. A fine table regulator by Barwise is in the Lord Harris Collection at Belmont, and examples of his work are at the Guildhall Museum in London.