Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
-
Watch
- repeating verge watch
Categories
Description
Verge repeating watch, in enamel case set with pearls and diamonds, with chatelaine.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement, not named. Balance bridge chased and pierced with radial 'tulip'design. Polished steel coquette. Brass balance. Silver regulation dial engraved 'AVANCE' and 'RETARD'. Blued steel hand. Plain curved fusee cock. Polished steel set-up wheel and click. Top plate engraved with runner regulation scale with 'V' and 'L'. Rectangular fusee iron post with radiused end. Polished steel case bolt with angled end, spring under dial, nib under dial. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance, inside contrate wheel arbour, with polished steel end piece. Polished steel hour and quarter hammers. Repeating barrel with spring end outside. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, centre wheel recessed, double ended 'third wheel bridge' cock and contrate doubled ended cock. Hinge block scratched '135'. Fusee and chain, set-up click on top plate, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise, nearly radial. Runners planted clockwise, last wheel moved to adjust speed.
REPEATING WORK: Polished steel 1/4 work, chain driven over pulley. Hour snail and star wheel mounted under all or nothing lever.
BRASS EDGE: Chased edge, secured to plate by three latch screws. Scratched under pendant '135'.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, counter enamel scored '135', two feet. Line minute ring, vertical Arabic quarter figures, dot 5 minute marks, vertical Arabic chapters. Winding hole at 2 o'clock.
HANDS: Gold minute stamped brass hour hand, Louis XV style.
BELL: Covering movement (not removed).
CASE: Gold, consular, enamelled and set with pearls and brilliants. Glass with labels. Bezel and body set with outer ring of pearls, forty-eight on bezel and forty-seven on body. Back with enamel and gold ring pattern with fifteen set diamonds, around polychrome painted enamel of the 'The Moralist' after Morland, with a translucent deep blue sky over turned rings. Plain gold pendant, cheese-shaped top stamped twice with an eagle (?), with beak facing to the right. Plain stirrup bow.
PROTECTIVE CASE (A): Brass, gilt, plain, glazed body.
CHATELAINE (B): Rectangular polychrome painted enamel plaque of girl playing flute, back with enamelled pattern, in gold frame hinged to gold clip. Clip with assay mark (?) and maker's mark 'E G', with a standard rose tree between, in lozenge. Four gold chains to oval polychrome painted plaque of girl sitting with two dogs by a river, in oval gold frame, engraved brass back. Three gold chains to bar with safety hook for watch, with chain to uncut seal, with enamelled handle, on left and chain with watch key, with enamelled handle on right.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Frank Gray Smart
Components of the work
Chatelaine
composed of
enamel
( plaques)
gold
Length 183 mm
Width 42 mm
Case
composed of
brilliants
pearls
Dial, Back
composed of
enamel
Dial
composed of
copper
Case, Minute Hand
composed of
gold
Hour Hand
composed of
gold
Movement
composed of
silver
steel
Movement, Chatelaine
composed of
brass (alloy)
Case Bottom
composed of
glass
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 36 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 37 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 42.25 mm
Inner Case
Diameter 50 mm
Height 63 mm
Thickness 21.25 mm
Protective Case
Diameter 55 mm
Thickness 19 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 3 mm
Dial, Case
Inscription or legends present
- Text: '135'
- Location: Movement, brass edge, dial
- Method of creation: Scratched
- Type: Number
- Text: 'ds.v' '420' and '84/-/-'
- Location: Label in case glass
- Method of creation: Isncribed
- Type: Inscription
- Text: 'Gold and enl watch & chatelaine, the watch enld (?) with "The Moralist after Morland".'
- Location: Label in case glass
- Method of creation: Inscribed
- Type: Inscription
- Text: 'E G' with rose tree between, in lozenge
- Location: Chatelaine
- Type: Maker's mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M/P.71 & A & B-1913
Primary reference Number: 207238
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 3 December 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
