IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207273 accession number: PW.4-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 8 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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' title: watch NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Spencer George Perceval Collection creditline: Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207273 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Erwin, Edw. CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World ---