IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207296 accession number: PW.27 & A-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in silver pair case MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Pr Moore 9289 LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table having a 'lace' edge, dragons head engraved on neck, foot pierced and engraved. Polished steel balance. Pierced and engraved slide plate, silver regulator dial with Arabic figures 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Potance with moulding at end of foot, screwed to back plate, counter-potance pivoted to back plate. Polished steel case bolt and spring with vertical pierced foot, nib through dial. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars, under-dial stamped '9289'. Fusee and chain, barrel with one lip, tangent set-up under barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Plain, three feet. DIAL: White enamel on copper with three feet. Outer 5 minute marked with radial Arabic numbers, ladder minute ring, squat radial Roman chapters and thin inner circle. HANDS: Blued steel beetle and poker. INNER CASE: Silver, plain, HM London 1766, maker's incuse 'IW' and '9289' stamped inside. OUTER CASE (A): Silver, plain, HM London, maker's incuse 'IW'. 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/207296 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Moore, Peter (watchmaker) maker: Watkins, John (case maker) CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Catalogue of the Museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of London London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their marks and lives, from original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources ---