Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Case maker:
Feline, Frederick
Entities
Categories
Description
Lady's verge watch in silver case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'n 2841'. Balance bridge, table pierced and engraved with scrolls, polished steel coquette. Brass balance, banking pins projecting down and working against slide plate ends. Silver regulation dial engraved 'A' and 'R'. Plain cock for fusee pivot. Plain counter-potance secured to top of back plate. Turned fusee iron post. Adjustable potance, blued steel end piece to counter-potance, adjusting screw working against plate. Conical polished steel case bolt, in slot in plate. Joint replaced, and does not fit in brass edge. Pilla plate with four turned pillars with single ring and tapered towards pillar plate. Sunk centre wheel. Third wheel bar. Scratched '2841' under-dial. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, counter enamel inscribed '2841', three feet. Radial Arabic quarter figure, half quarters marked with fleur-de-lis, dot minute ring, radial Arabic chapters.
CASE: Silver, insied gilt, single backed consular. HM London 1832. Case maker 'F pellet F' in oval cameo. Back engraved 'LWR' in script. Pendant, short cylindrical neck with spherical top stamped with lion and date letter. Stirrup bow stamped with lion.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
brass (alloy)
Inside Case
composed of
gilt
Movement, Case
composed of
silver
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 30.75 mm
Movement (dial)
Diameter 33.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 33 mm
Case
Diameter 39.5 mm
Height 48 mm
Thickness 17.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 3 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Location: Case
- Type: Hallmark
- Text: F pellet F' in oval cameo
- Location: Case
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: lion and date letter
- Location: Case
- Method of creation: Stamped
- Type: Mark
- Text: n 2841
- Location: Top plate
- Method of creation: Engraving
- Type: Number
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.43-1923
Primary reference Number: 207312
No.: H 2841
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 10 December 2015
Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
