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Maker: Champenois, Raymond
Verge silver watch in skull-shaped case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Champenois A Paris'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved oval table and foot. Steel balance. Set up endless screw with silver dial over brass worm wheel, having radial Arabic numbers 1 to 6. Blued steel worm brackets with trellis feet and index. Rectangular fusee iron post, lyre shape on end. Blued steel case bolt with spring having vertical decorative foot. Rectangular potance with engraved side riveted to top plate. Counter potance rectangular with foot screwed to top plate. Pillar plate with four turned baluster pillars. Dial side engraved around dial. Split gut fusee, endless screw set-up on back plate, barrel with two lips at end. Verge escapement. Train, three pinions, planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel in sink in gold plate with counter enamel. Radial Roman chapters with half-hour lines. Ladders quarters ring. Small central decoration around thin central gold ring.
HAND: Blued steel hour hand, sword shaped.
CASE: Silver in the form of a skull. Lower jaw opening to reveal dial, plain inside. Inside body (cranium) has hammer marks. Bow ring double where soldered to cranium. No marks.
History note: Unknown before Frank Gray Smart, Bredbury, Tunbridge Wells
F.G. Smart Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1913-06-05) by Smart, Frank Gray
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1670
Dial
composed of
enamel
gold
Fusee
composed of
gut
Movement
composed of
silver
steel
brass (alloy)
Case
composed of
silver
Depth 33.25 mm
Height 42 mm
Width 27.5 mm
Hand
composed of
steel
Movement (dial)
Diameter 21.25 mm
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 22 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 23.5 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 6 mm
Movement, Hand
Accession number: M/P.54-1913
Primary reference Number: 200549
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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