Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Erwin, Edw.
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge watch in single gilt case
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Edw*Erlin London'. Balance cock with pierced table having ears and a mask engraved at the neck, foot pierced with full border. Steel balance. Pierced dragon index slide plate, large silver regulator disc, with Arabic radial figures 10 to 60. Pierced fusee iron post. Case bolt with flat formed foot. Rectangular potance with short foot with moulding at end, riveted to plate. Rectangular counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars. Under dial engraved 'M' under minute wheel. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up, third and contrate wheels crossed out in three. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: Gold, 5 minutes numbered in cushions, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, all raised above a matted ground. Matted dial centre with engraving around centre hole.
HANDS: Blued steel, beetle and poker
BRASS EDGE: Gilt brass, three feet, with wheat-ear engraved around edge of dial.
CASE: Single, gilt metal, covered in shagreen, winding hole covered with gilt metal disc. Gilt inside of case with scratches '55/-', 'S844=', '144' and '4R64'
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1922)
by
Perceval, Spencer George
Dating
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
Note
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.
Components of the work
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
Brass Edge, Case
composed of
gilt
Case
composed of
shagreen
Diameter 46.5 mm
Height 48.5 mm
Thickness 29 mm
Width 47.5 mm
Dial
composed of
gold
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 34.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 35.25 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 37.5 mm
Movment (pillar)
Height 7.5 mm
Hands
Inscription or legends present
- Text: '55/-', 'S844=', '144' and '4R64'
- Location: Scratched
- Method of creation: Inside case
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.4-1923
Primary reference Number: 207273
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 8 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
