Watchmaker's Round Crystal Gauge

Object/Artifact

Sidney Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Watchmaker's Round Crystal Gauge

Entry/Object ID

2009.016.016

Description

Small, brass gauge, parallelogram shaped, used to measure watch crystals. Front is black enamelled background, with raised brass markings in millimeters on both the long sides. One gauge is titled: "Millimeter Gauge - G-S Flexo Fancy Crystals", with "Short/Line/5/10MM" down one end of measuring area. There is also an image of a stretched octagon, which is presumably one of the available shapes of watch crystals. One short side marked "Copyrighted Apr. 1933". Central gauge area has title block: "Germanow-Simon Machine Co. Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A./Gauge for G-S Flexo Round Crystals". "G-S" logo in a circle and "Trade Mark" underneath.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Rust, Connie

Notes

Accession Date: 08-Jul-09 Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Gauge

Nomenclature Class

Weights & Measures T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 05: Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

watchmaker's gauge

Created By

Jones, Isabel

Create Date

June 8, 2010

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

May 15, 2025