IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207144 accession number: M/P.11-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 27 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in gilt case with polychrome enamel and protective outer case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Caron a Paris'. Balance bridge pierced and chased, polished steel coquette. Polished steel balance. Silver regulation dial engraved 1 to 7, plain blued steel hand. Engraved barrel cock. Engraved foot of counter-potance. Plain, not gilt, replacement cock for contrate. Plain fusee iron post. Case bolt slide in plate with nib slot under dial. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance, with polished steel end piece, and adjustment screw. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, plain central section. Centre wheel recessed. Under dial, centre recessed, double ended cock for third contrate. Polished steel set-up wheel and click with tail as spring. Lightly scratched, under gilding '186' (?). Fusee and chain, set up click under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. Upper pivot of fusee runs in a cock screwed to top plate, not an unusual arrangement in French "front wind" watches. HANDS: Gold, pierced, Louis XV type. DIAL: White enamel on copper, counter enamel, two feet. Radial Arabic 5 min. figures, ladder min. ring with dots for 5 mins., radial Roman chapters, circle. Winding hole at 3.30 CASE: Gold, consular, enamelled. Bezel chased, with polychrome painted enamel panels of flowers, diamond nib. Body chased with a border having small polychrome enamel panels and diamond push piece. On the back is a polychrome painted enamel panel of a lady seated beside table with a lover behind, basket of flowers on table. Plain pendant, top stamped on side with Discharge mark of Jean Jacques Prevost. Inside case stamped with Charge mark of Jean Jacques Prevost and Paris date letter B (1765), also makers mark, not clear, of 'JO' or 'JC'? above 'A'? all under a star. PROTECTIVE CASE (A) Gilt brass covered with green shagreen, single ring of pins on bezel and body, glazed back. title: watch LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Gray Smart creditline: Frank Gray Smart Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207144 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Beaumarchais, Pierre maker: Prevost, Jean Jacques CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français Les Poinçons de Paris: Répertoire des maîtres-orfèvres de la jurisdiction de Paris depuis le moyen-âge jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle ---