IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207178 accession number: M/P.47-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 30 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in gilt case MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Simon Hacket at the Royall Exchang fecit.' Balance cock with pierced and engraved table and fot, both with free form edges. Table repaired, brass plate soft soldered beneath. Brass set-up ratchet. Steel click, on post, and spring. Top plate with engraved border and as above, counter-potance rivet engraved with rose. Rectangular post hole and other hole filled in plate and 2 unused pin holes, all under cock. Rectangular fusee iron post with shaped profile. Case bolt is missing, but would be under the dial, with nib through dial plate. Rectangular potance engraved on side, with soft solder repair. Counter-potance with engraved side, riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four narrow Egyptian pillars. Split fusee and gut, two lips on barrel. set up click on top plate. Verge escapement. Train, three pinions, planted anti-clockwise. DIAL PLATE: Silver gilt, with joint and four tags to fit case. Engraved with winged cherub face, under joint, and foliage design outside applied chapter ring, inside ring scene of town scene over a river. Chapter ring engraved with radial Roman chapters with half-hour marks, line rings outsdie chapters and inside, inside ring with hour dots. Back of dial plate with recess for hour wheel and case bolt spring, slot for case bolt. HAND: Blued steel, broken plain pointer, and tail. CASE: Silver gilt with chased decoration, six plain radial ribs having flowers and arched stems between. Decoration carried on to bezel, rose in centre of body. Winding hole in back of body. Bezel, not split, glass secured by five pins. Pendant in form of bud, with plain ring bow. 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/207178 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Hacket, Simon EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Tempus, The Art of Time CITATIONS -------- Tempus, The Art of Time Watches, Their History, Decoration and Mechanism Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Early Clockmakers of Great Britain Some Account of the Worshipfull Company of Clockmakers of the City of London ---