Maker: Matthey & Compe
Verge watch, in gold enamelled case set with pearls.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Matthey & Compe 339', also 'Matthey & Compe' painted on dial. Balance bridge with pierced and engraved table, polished steel coquette. Brass balance. Silver regulation dial engraved 'A' and 'R' at ends of scale, plain gold hand. Plain cock for fusee. Plain counter-potance on top of the top plate, with polished steel end plate and adjustment screw. Turned fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt in slot in plate, nib under dial. Adjustable potance. Pillar plate with four plain turned pillars. Sunk centre wheel and barrel. Third wheel bar. Under dial, edge turned down, stamped '2454' which has been scratched out, and '339' scratched on. Fusee and chain, set up click under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel on copper with gilt edge. Vertical Arabic quarter figure, radial line minute ring, four dots at 5 minutes, vertical Arabic chapters. Winding hole at 2 o'clock. Name as above, painted in line between 8 and 4 o'clock.
HANDS: Gold hour hand with open diamond shaped head, plain brass minute hand.
CASE: Gold with ring of pearls set on bezel and body. Bezel with edge band chased in rope pattern, dark blue translucent enamel with outer ring of white enamel dots within gold, rings and chasing on back under enamel. Inside back of body with scratch mark '60 0j', opening flat scratched with '67 X/-/-' and '37=5V/-/-' crossed through. Pendant, rectangular base, oval stem, rectangular top with line top and bottom. Base stamped '339', top stamped 'DR'. Oval stirrup bow. Small button at the top of the pendant is pressed in to withdraw the nib of the cover glass at "3 o'clock", a defectively designed arrangement.
Bequeathed by Frank Gray Smart
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1913-06-05) by Smart, Frank Gray
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1790
Fusee Post
composed of
iron
Dial
composed of
gilt
copper
Case
composed of
pearls
Diameter 47.5 mm
Height 59 mm
Thickness 15.5 mm
Dial, Case
composed of
enamel
Hour Hand, Case
composed of
gold
Movement
composed of
silver
steel
brass (alloy)
Minute Hand
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 36.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 38 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 1.75 mm
Inscription present: Scratched out
Accession number: M/P.80-1913
Primary reference Number: 207247
No.: 339
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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