Maker: Bouvier, Amy
Verge watch, in silver pair case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate engraved 'Amy Bouuier'. Large balance cock with pierced and engraved table, with ears, foot pierced and engraved with thin edge. Pierced and engraved slide plate, steel regulator disc blued with gold inlaid rings, decorations and Arabic numbers 1 to 6. Flat steel balance with three arms and banking pin in circumference. Fusee iron bracket pierced. Case bolt with flat formed foot. Rectangular potance and tapered counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four Egyptian pillars, scratched '4P4' on inside. Split fusee and chain, barrel with two lips, set-up click under barrel, second wheel off centre. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Zig-zag decoration around dial.
DIAL: Silver gilt, radial Roman chapters with inner half-hour ladder of silver, gilt matted ground, and a gilt matted centre with chased decoration. 'AMY' engraved in oval cartouche under 12 o'clock and 'BOUUIER' in oval cartouche over 6 o'clock.
HAND: Steel beetle.
INNER CASE: Plain silver, stamped inside with the maker's mark, incuse 'AH' under a crown and a very small boar's head mark. Pendant with spherical top bow (both late 18th century)
OUTER CASE (A): Silver, square hinge. Stamped decoration on bezel and body, scene on back of walled town with river in front and signed 'ARPIN.FECIT'.
FOB: Ribbon, steel watch key having large oval handle.
History note: Collection S.G. Perceval (1838-1922), by whom bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1922; stolen 1994; purchased in good faith at an Antiques fair by Mr D.J. Daniels; gifted to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2024
Bequeathed by Spencer George Perceval, 1922. Stolen 1994. Recovered and gifted to the Museum by Mrs Daniels in accordance with the wishes of Mr D. J. Daniels, 2024. The Museum is grateful to the Daniels family for their assistance and generosity.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Production date:
circa
AD 1690
The inner case of the watch may have been made by either William Cooper of Lamb Court, Clerkenwell Green, or William Ginn who was free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1700. The movement was not by Thomas Tompion although his name is engraved on it.
Dial
composed of
gilt
Movement
composed of
gold
Dial, Outer Case
composed of
silver
Movement, Hand
composed of
steel
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 41 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 43.25 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 44 mm
Inner Case
Diameter 50.75 mm
Height 69.75 mm
Thickness 32 mm
Outer Case
Diameter 60 mm
Height 73.75 mm
Thickness 35 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 15.5 mm
Movement, Outer Case
Accession number: PW.1 & A-1923
Primary reference Number: 207270
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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