Maker: Tompion, T. and Banger, E.
Verge clock-watch, re-cased in gilt metal consular case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'THO. TOMPION E. BANGER LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table, ears and cherub at neck, foot pierced and engraved with thin border. Steel balance with wide ringed rim. Pierced and engraved slide plate, silver regulator dial with Arabic numbers in 5's to 30. Silver locking plate with engraved centre and slots numbered, blued steel cock with indicator (planted over BANGER). Pierced fusee iron post. Potance and counter-potance riveted to back plate (some solder around the counter-potance). Fixed striking barrel with side engraved, fixed by two screws to top plate. Blued steel filigree gates. Turned hammer arbour, hammer under striking barrel. Pillar plate with five pillars, three tulip and two turned. Steel third wheel bar. Under-dial, quarter repeating mechanism removed (quarter snail still on cannon pinion), plate scratched '23/4/67'. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up, barrel with one lip. Five wheel striking train planted anti-clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Gilt brass, modified to mount movement just off centre, away from hinge.
DIAL: White enamel on copper. Outer ladder minute circle, squat radial Roman chapters, thin inner ring. Winding holes at 4 and 8 o'clock.
HANDS: Blued steel 'Breguet' style hour only.
BELL: Scratched inside '480' over 'RB' and '759', on back '8'.
CASE: Gilt metal consular with pierced bezel, inside and around back, centre of back engraved. Inside back, under bell, stamped with sun over 'W' pellet 'P' inside rectangle with domed arch over sun.
Outer travelling case, covered with sharkskin.
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
Production date:
circa
AD 1720
Dial
composed of
enamel
( on copper)
copper
Brass Edge
composed of
gilt brass
Movement
composed of
iron
silver
steel
Case
composed of
gilt metal
Diameter 56.5 mm
Height 58.75 mm
Thickness 29.5 mm
Width 56 mm
Travelling Case
composed of
sharkskin
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 35.5 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 37 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 42.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 8.5 mm
Movement, Case
Accession number: PW.20-1923
Primary reference Number: 207289
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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