Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Bowen & Downe
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge watch in gilt consular case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement, engraved 'Bowen & Downes LONG ACRE No. 700.' Balance cock with table pierced and mask engraved at neck. Foot engraved. Polished steel balance. Engraved slide plate with silver regulator disc having radial Arabic numbers, 2, 4, and 6. Fusee iron post pierced. Case bolt in brass edge. Potance with narrow foot screwed to, and counter-potance riveted to, top plate. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, unused slot in pillar plate to left of joint. Under dial, recess in centre with two small recesses at 3 and 9 o'clock. Bar fitted over centre recess to take intermediate wheel to operate calendar stear wheel. Three recesses unused. Plate stamped '434'. Fusee and chain with set-up click on back plate under slide plate. Second centre wheel off centre. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
CAP: Plain with raised oval table, scratched on outside 'O/X' and on the inside '1802'. Blued steel cap spring.
DIAL: Flat white enamel on copper, two circles, time above and date below the centre. Time face with dot minute circle, star quarters, vertical Roman chapters. Date circle with radial Arabic odd numbers and dots between.
BRASS EDGE: Scratched '434'.
HANDS: Brass repaired spade hour hand and plain minute hand, gilt brass pierced date hand.
CASE: Gilt brass, plain double-backed consular, with dome cut away to clear the movement. Back stamped '424' obliterated by 8's with '34' stamped below, in 12 o'clock position. Pendant central hole filled at top. Two holes in band for missing push spring fixings. Gilding now only in moulding.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dial
composed of
enamel
( on copper)
copper
Hands (date), Case
composed of
gilt-brass
Movement
composed of
silver
steel
Hands
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 41 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 43 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 45.5 mm
Case
Diameter 56.5 mm
Height 70 mm
Thickness 23 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 5 mm
Cap
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'Bowen & Downes LONG ACRE No. 700.'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: 434
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Stamped
- Type: Number
- Text: 'O/X' and '1802'
- Location: Cap, inside and outside
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.15-1923
Primary reference Number: 207284
No.: 700
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Wednesday 9 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
