IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207280 accession number: PW.11-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in silver pair case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Jno. Meredith LONDON 2323'. Balance cock with pierced table (edge cut away to provide banking), blued steel end piece and diamond end stone. Foot pierced. Polished steel balance. Slide plate pierced with free form edge, silver regulator dial engraved 5 to 30. Pierced fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt with eyes, sliding in slot in plate, nib at side. Potance with foot following plate edge, and with moulding at end. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars. Centre wheel recessed. Cock for third wheel. Fusee and chain with tangent set-up. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Gilt, plain with three feet. DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Minute ring of dots with pattern of four dots at the quarters, radial Arabic chapters. HANDS: Gold, minute hand 'twisted rope' pierced with star and point at end. Hour hand pierced. INNER CASE: Silver, plain. Stamped inside with maker's mark 'W' pellet 'M' under a star in three interlocking circles, H M London 1756. Pendant cylindrical with spherical end, bow with bulbous ends. OUTER CASE (A): Bezel and body, covered with painted horn in imitation of tortoiseshell in red and black, with outer circle of pins on bezel and body. Silver hinge and ring around bezel opening. Scratched inside body 'WX', 'Bleir' and jNl'. 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/207280 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meredith, John CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ---