IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207298 accession number: PW.29-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in later silver case. Typical Dutch movement MOVEMENT: Full plate movement signed on back plate 'GERRIT RENSMAN ZWOLLE'. Large balance bridge with table pierced and chased, mask at bottom, semi circular balustrade at top with a spray of flowers in centre. Winding hole to left, short feet engraved with cross hatch pattern. Brass balance with three arms, two curved to miss winding square. Slide plate pierced and chased, with thin solid edge (covering all of the back plate above balance bridge). Silver regulating dial with outer scale marked 10, 20, 30, and 40 in Arabic figures. Silver ring around plate. Pierced and engraved fusee stop bracket, potance fixed with two screws through top plate. Counter potance riveted (two tapped and unused screws each side of counter potance in top plate). Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars, slot for case bolt. Scratched on pillar plate under the dial 'cft' or 'CH'. Hinge filed off. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up. Train planted clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Plain, with hinge block. DIAL: White enamel on copper. Ladder minute circle, short thin radial Roman chapters. HANDS: Gold. Thin double diamond minute, replacement. Broken hour. CASE: Silver, double-backed consular case. Dome marked on the inside London HM 1854. Case maker's mark incise 'IW'. Back with similar marks on the inside. Outside engine turned with central shield stamped in three lines 'H' over 'HAR' over 'DING'. Pendant spherical, with London HM 1853. Maker's mark 'rc' in rectangular cameo, on stem with milled ring. Ring bow. 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/207298 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1858 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1858 culture: 18th Century-19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Rensman, Gerrit maker: Williams, John (case maker) CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Clocks and Watches in the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914, from the London Assay Office Registers ---