The Harris cares for around 40 pocket watches and watch movements. This example was made by a local watchmaker and jeweller J. Winters based on Orchard Street in Preston. Winters’ was a very smart establishment with a large and highly decorative clock on its fancy shop facade, which also in the mid-1800s advertised the firm as keeping ‘railway time’. Other famous jewellers and watchmakers in Preston include Yates’ which is still in business opposite the Harris. On this pocket watch there is a smaller clock face measuring seconds, in addition to hours and minutes.