IDENTIFIERS
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id:	207307
accession number:	PW.38 & A-1923

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 10 December 2015
updated:	Wednesday 28 March 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Verge watch in gilt metal pair case.

MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Thos Leyden LONDON 14785'. Balance cock with pierced and chased table, vase at neck, foot chased. Slide plate chased, silver regulation dial, marked 1 to 6 in Arabic figures. Fusee iron post, pierced. Polished steel case bolt with flat decorated foot. Potance with end of foot with moulding, screwed, and rectangular counter-potance riveted, to back plate. Pillar plate with four square section baluster pillars. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.

DIAL: White enamel on copper, slightly convex, three feet. Radial Arabic 5 minute figures, dotted minute ring, short radial Roman chapters.

HANDS: Gold, bettle and poker, well made.

BRASS EDGE: Gilt with three feet.

INNER CASE: Gilt metal, not marked

OUTER CASE (A): Gilt metal covered with shagreen.
title:	watch

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Spencer George Perceval Collection
creditline: Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207307





CATEGORIES
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category: watches

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Leyden, Thomas


CITATIONS
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Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World
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