IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207253 accession number: M/P.86-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 8 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in enamelled gold case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Breguet A PARIS', also on dial. Balance pierced and engraved with lyre-shaped motifs, applied brass pivot block and polished steel coquette. Steel end stone. Silver regulation dial engraved 'A' and 'R', plain brass hand. Brass balance. Fusee cock and counter-potance with engraved border. Top plate engraved as above. Turned fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt in slot in plate, nib under dial. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance, polished steel end plate, adjustable against side of top plate. Pillar plate with four turned pillars with end tapers, and parallel centre with ribs at junction. Recessed centre wheel. Third wheel bridge. Under-dial flat, scratched 'N225', polished steel case bolt spring and set-up click. Conical pipe on fusee square. Fusee and chain, barrel with one lip, set-up click under dial. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: White enamel on copper, convex, three feet, gilt edge, counter-enamel inscribed '225.' Vertical Arabic quarter figures, dotted minute ring, large dots at 5 minutes. Vertical Arabic chapters, inscribed 'Breguet' under 12 and and 'A PARIS' above 6. Winding hole at 2 o'clock. HANDS: Gold, polished poker minute hand, flat spade ended hour hand. CASE: Gold and enamel. Engraved lined and plain oblique segments on edge. Bezel and body with ring of blue enamel decorated with white, light blue and gold decoration. Back of body with white enamel ring with radial gold decorations and a ring of dark grey enamel with gold and white enamel decorations. Centre enamel plaque of white painted woman before rectangular altar of love, with two doves above and a boy at side, surrounded by grey translucent enamel over engine turning. Pendant, two plain diameters, circular top stamped incuse 'IM' and 'I' sideways. Plain stirrup 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: Bequeathed by Frank Gray Smart STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207253 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown