Maker:
Unknown
Case maker:
Unknown
Verge watch in silver pair case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement, engraved 'Eardley Norton London'. Balance bridge with circular pierced table, steel end piece with faceted red end stone, rectangular engraved feet extending to edge of plate. Brass balance. Engraved slide plate, extends both sides of balance bridge, plain polished steel regulator disc. Turned fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt slides in slot in pillar plate, nib under dial. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance, with polished steel end plate and adjusting screw, screwed to top plate. Pillar plate with four five sided baluster pillars with turned top, sunk centre wheel. Third wheel bar. Joint riveted to top plate has one leg missing, the other has a stopped and re-drilled pin hole. Number '387' stamped on pillar plate adjacent to pillar next to the barrel. Fusee and chain with click set-up under dial. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three dial feet, all broken at the pin hole. Minute circle of short lines, 5 minute dots, radial Arabic quarter numbers, radial Roman chapters, ringed central polychrome painting of Dutch scene of ship, houses and windmill. Lower half with ground edge.
HANDS: Gold, beetle hour hand, thin minute hand pierced segment below straight end.
INNER CASE: Silver, HM London 1813, broad pendant HM London 1813 with maker's mark 'LB' in rectangular cameo. Second winding hole filled in. Bull's eye glass.
OUTER CASE (A): Silver, repousse with scene of man fishing in canal/river with bridge and houses. '898' stamped inside below pendant. Too small for inner
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
18th Century
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
Dial
composed of
enamel
( on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
brass (alloy)
End-stone
composed of
garnet
Hands
composed of
gold
Pair Case
composed of
silver
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 44 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 46 mm
Inner Case
Diameter 50.75 mm
Height 66 mm
Thickness 24.75 mm
Outer Case
Diameter 58 mm
Height 69.25 mm
Thickness 27.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Diameter 5 mm
Movement, Hands
Inscription present: although the movement is a copy
Inscription present: nearly polished out
Accession number: PW.16 & A-1923
Primary reference Number: 207285
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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