IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207289 accession number: PW.20-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/207289 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Tompion, T. and Banger, E. CITATIONS -------- Thomas Tompion, His Life and Work ---