IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207146 accession number: M/P.14-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 27 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in gold and enamelled case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'J. Larpent & Jurgensen a Copenhague 743'. Bridge cock pierced and engraved with four off 'C' designs, small polished steel coquette. Brass balance. Silver regulation dial engraved with 'A' and 'R'. Plain blued steel hand. Chased fusee cock. Plate scratched 'No 289'. Turned fusee iron post. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance with polished steel end piece and adjusting screw, screwed to plate. Case bolt, with conical end, in slot in plate, nib under dial. Pillar plate with four turned pillars with tapered end at pillar plate. Recessed centre and third wheel. Under-dial, centre recessed, stamped '743, six dots on hinge, scratch at edge '1 1/4 Klnig'? Fusee and chain, set-up ratchet under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet, counter enamel marked in white '743 no'. Outer radial Arabic 5 minute figures, dotted minute ring between light circles, three line 5 minute marks, radial Roman chapters, inner light circle. Centre marked 'Jac. Larpent' above centre and '& Jurgensen' under centre, both in straight lines. Winding hole at 1.30. HANDS: Gold Louis XV type. CASE: Gold and enamel consular. Bezel, with lip to project over body, chased and enamelled in white, blue, green and orange, flat scratched '1708 itx'. Body chased and enamelled as bezel and with ring of raised wire work. Polychrome painted enamel plaque on girl releasing dove above the flames of a cylindrical altar of love on the back, in a marbled enamel frame. Inside of back scratched '816 XLIV', '103 SL/-/-'. Plain pendant with stirrup bow. Top of pendant stamped on side, twice on front, with eagle's head facing right and two anvil marks opposite, top stamped 'J. A' in shaped stamped, placed diagonally. Short snake gold chain. Crank gold key (A) with oval enamelled handle. Straight gold ratchet key (B) with circular handle. 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/207146 TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Larpent, Isaac maker: Jürgensen, Jürgen CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World ---