Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge watch with gold consular case set with pearls.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement not signed. Balance bridge pierced and engraved, polished steel end piece with round red end stone, with '14' scratched on the underside of the foot. Brass balance. Large silver regulation dial with 'AVANCE' and 'RETARD'. Fusee and barrel holes ringed. Turned fusee iron post. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance with polished steel end piece and adjusting screw. Polished steel, truncated cone, case bolt in slot in plate, nib through edge. Pillar plate ith four turned pillars, third wheel bar, under dial stamped '707' and scratched '14'. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, one lip on barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: Gold, outer ring, minute ring with minute strokes and dots every 5 min., radial Roman chapters and inner ring all raised and polished. Matt chapter background and engine turned centre of dial.
HANDS: 'Breguet' style blued steel.
CASE: Gold with bezel and back having an outer circle of pearls, centre of back engine turned. Inside back stamped '50' and scratched '1+/-/-.' Spherical pendant stamped '27707' and '50' on front, ring bow with unidentified stamps.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Case
composed of
pearls
Diameter 35.25 mm
Height 41 mm
Thickness 12.5 mm
End-stone
composed of
ruby
Dial, Case
composed of
gold
Movement
composed of
silver
brass (alloy)
Movement, Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (pillar)
Diameter 2.5 mm
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 28 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 29.25 mm
Hands
Inscription or legends present
- Text: '14'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Scratched
- Type: Number
- Text: '50', '27707', '50'
- Location: Case
- Method of creation: Stamped
- Type: Number
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.19-1923
Primary reference Number: 207288
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
