Watch Museum
The Sands Mechanical Museum is a virtual museum on the Internet. We are an educational site and provide information on many mechanical things. Currently we have information on antique arcade games and Lotus cars.
This is a prototype for a pocket watch museum contained in the Sands Mechanical Museum. We start with a museum search page, showing how the watches might be found and providing a random selection of watches to start.
Included on this page is a sample of a watch page, with descriptions, comments, and pictures. Selecting any watch in the database will guide you to a similar page with more specific information about the chosen watch.
Comments are welcome.
Search:
The search capability of the museum will allow a visitor to select a series of watches to view based on various characteristics such as age, maker, type of escapement, or case design. The visitor will be presented with watches that match their interests along with a small image. Then the visitor can select a specific watch and then be presented with a description, more technical information about the watch, and additional pictures.
Below are several examples of watches that will be included in the museum. Unfortunately the technical information is incomplete and just plain wrong.
EW72 Canterbury #94, English, verge fusee, hallmark 1789, Emanl. Solomon
EW74 Tarts, London, hallmark 1764, keywind, fusee
EW79 Waltham 17 jewels, 1894 model
EW24 Issac, Henry Patrick, deck watch, 1869-1875
Paps' Family watch, little known about it.
Pocket Watch Collection
We do not have any pocket watches to display in the museum. At one time we hoped to use a collection from a collector. Unfortunately the collection never materialized. As a result, we are interested in documenting other collections or even other individual pocket watches. Please contact us if you know of such a collection and an owner interested in supporting this educational site.
The next step will be to create a database of all the watches and allow the visitor to search for watches of interest. Watches, both from this collection and others, will be added as time allows.
If there is sufficient interest, watches from other collections can be added. The process is simple, requiring only some pictures of the time piece and some comments and technical description. The web designers here at the museum will do the work required to present the information.
Notes
The navigation on the right is taken from the Sands Mechanical Museum. The links do not work. Should you be curious, you are welcome to visit the Museum directly. This will be fixed soon, depending on if the pocketwatchmuseum.com domain name is combined or separate from the Sands Mechanical Museum.