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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 719950, member: 25&quot;]The movement appears to be about 1840 or so but the case is a puzzle, the hallmarks look as bent as a nine bob note. </p><p>The &#039;stop&#039; lever was to set the watch going at an exact time according to a regulator or a mid day gun.</p><p><br /></p><p>The big jewels are called &#039;Liverpool windows&#039; because of their size and were typical of early to mid 19th C, Liverpool movements. It mentions that it has a detached lever because this was a new thing at the time.</p><p>There is no database of numbers, this maker probably started at 10,000, no way anyone made 10,000 plus movements at that time.</p><p>It would have had a curb link chain and a T bar,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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