Relógio com cerca de 300 Anos, foi recuperado de um Naufrágio com o Mecanismo Intacto

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It was found on a wreck believed to be the Swan – a small warship that sank off the west coast of Scotland during the English Civil War. A naval diver discovered the wreck in the 1970s, and it was excavated in the 1990s.

he resulting reconstruction of the watch shows plenty of decorative touches and exquisite attention to detail. The top and bottom plates are held together by square-section Egyptian tapered pillars, first used around 1640. Other parts of the mechanism are engraved with a floral design.

The clockface itself is marked in Roman numerals with what appears to be a fleur de lys on each half-hour, and an English rose in the centre. An engraving on the watch’s top plate reads “Niccholas Higginson of Westminster”.
Colin Martin, a retired maritime archaeologist who was at the University of St Andrews in Fife, UK, and led the original excavation of the Swan, describes the work as "brilliant". (ANI)

Treasured exhibition of the National Museum of Scotland until 2011

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