Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Verge watch in rock crystal cruciform case, in 17th century style
MOVEMENT: Cruciform top plate, rounded at all four ends, plain fusee cock. Balance cock pierced with wide borders, polished steel coquette and engraved foot. Brass balance. Hairspring under balance (no method of regulation), 18th century fusee, circular fusee iron post with flat to clear steel pillar. Adjustable potance across end of plate. Adjustable counter-potance. Cruciform pillar plate with four pillars, two cylindrical steel pillars and two turned baluster pillars from part of the dial plate, which is screwed to the pillar plate by three screws. Under the dial is a recess for the motion to work. Fusee with gut, set-up click under barrel, barrel with two lips. Verge escapement. Train in line, with centre wheel.
DIAL: Silver gilt, two feet, dial secured by a screw at III o'clock. Ring at edge, radial Roman chapters on polished islands, dots between, background matt, scalloped ring and ribbon inside with simple flower in centre. Winding hole at III o'clock.
DIAL PLATE: Four sections around dial forming cruciform shape with rounded ends, all secured by screws to pillar plate, and all engraved with flowers, nibs to fit case.
CASE: Body, cruciform gilt brass frame, plain with cut-out for movement. Crystal cruciform body, not well cut, with rounded inner ends, faces with light scratches.
BEZEL: Cruciform gilt brass frame with cut crystal cover.
Legal notes
Frank Gray Smart Bequest
Components of the work
Case Frame, Bezel
composed of
gilt brass
Dial
composed of
silver gilt
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
Balance
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 36.5 mm
Height 25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 42 mm
Height 27.25 mm
Case
Diameter 45.5 mm
Height 32 mm
Thickness 20 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 5.75 mm
Movement, Dial
Materials used in production
Crystal
Techniques used in production
Turning
Identification numbers
Accession number: M/P.18-1913
Primary reference Number: 207153
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Monday 30 November 2015
Updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
