7th January 2021
A talk by Graham Morse
The restoration of three watches by
‘Messrs: Leroux, Roskell, Mudge & Dutton’.
The South London Branch is delighted to
welcome back Graham
Morse, from the Wessex branch who many of you
will remember gave us a fantastic talk in February 2020. For those of you who
have not attended the speaker’s previous talk hear is a brief resume of his
involvement in horology in his own words.
“Before retiring from Xerox in 2013, I had been fascinated by
horology since I bought, on a whim at a local auction some 30 years before, a
French black marble mantel clock. After repairing it, and in the process being
persuaded by a local clockmaker to join the BHI Wessex Branch, I progressed
from these clocks, via a brief foray into wristwatches, to the world of English
watches from the 18th and early 19th centuries. I think much of the attraction
of this field for me lies in the largely handmade nature of these pieces and the
complexity of the trade, comprising such a multiplicity of crafts, which
produced them. The nature of their manufacture frequently gives rise to the
necessity to make replacement parts from the raw materials, something I
sometimes find challenging but always most rewarding.
My involvement with the Wessex Branch has deepened, from initially taking over
the maintenance and running of our auction database software and its general
administration, to now having been Chairman since Andrew James stood down in 2017,
I’m also a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society, the Dorset Clocks
Society and the NAWCC.
The Zoom presentation deals in some detail with the repair and restoration of
three pocket watches.
1 A Quarter Repeater signed
for John Leroux,
2 A Rack Lever signed for Robert Roskell,
3 A Cylinder signed for Thomas
Mudge & William Dutton
Meeting held on line via Zoom.
