Watchmaker
Robert Roskell
Also recorded as: Roskell, Robert
Liverpool watchmaker and retailer associated with rack-lever and lever watches.
Liverpool was a major English watchmaking centre in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The Roskell family firm is closely associated with lever watches, including the rack-lever escapement patented in 1791 by the Liverpool maker Peter Litherland.
- Country
- England
- City / centre
- Liverpool
- Founded
- Active c. 1798–1830
- Status
- Historical firm
- Key people
- Robert Roskell
Innovations & specialities
- Rack-lever and early English lever watches
Works by Robert Roskell in the catalogue
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Instruments · 1800-1834
Stop watch movement, no. 9201, by Robert Roskell, Liverpool, England, 1800-1834.
Science Museum Group, London
Movements & Components · 1830
Lever escapement with crank roller, about 1830, by Roskell, with gold and steel balance wheel, Liverpool, England
Science Museum Group, London
Movements & Components · 1840-1900
English lever, by Roskell, "banking" on escape wheel arbor, no.32224, 1840-1900
Science Museum Group, London
Linked through the Atlas maker authority list, which reconciles the spellings used by different institutions. Attributions are as stated by each holding institution or auction house.
