Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Hillier, William
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge watch in silver pair case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Wm. HILLIER LONDON'. Balance cock with symmetrically pierced and engraved table with mask at neck and ears, foot pierced and engraved with thin edge. Steel balance. Pierced and engraved slide plate with irregular edge, large silver regulation dial with radial Arabic figures 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Angular case bolt with flat decorated end, nib through dial. Potance, with short foot having a moulded top surface, riveted to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four Egyptian pillars with pierced decorated pediments, the pediments being 1/2 height of the pillar. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: Silver champleve, four feet. Radial Arabic 5 minute figures in polished cushions. Ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters with lozenges between, recessed centre. Centre disc with scrolls above and below centre, top scroll contains 'HILLIER' and bottom 'LONDON'.
BRASS EDGE: Two feet, thin dial edge engraved with circle and radial lines. Recess for pillar plate.
HANDS: Blued steel, hour hand pierced and poker minute hand with end missing (replacement).
INNER CASE: Silver, plain, not marked, with split bezel. Short cylindrical pendant with cheese top with lin round, stirrup bow.
OUTER CASE (A): Silver, plain, not marked.
WATCHPAPER (B): Hand made, drawn and painted verse of flowers.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Movement
composed of
iron
Movement, Case, Dial
composed of
silver
Movement, Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 38.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 40 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 42.75 mm
Inner Case
Diameter 49 mm
Height 56 mm
Thickness 29.5 mm
Outer Case
Diameter 55.75 mm
Height 59.25 mm
Thickness 30.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 7.5 mm
Hands
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'Wm. HILLIER LONDON'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.44 & A & B-1923
Primary reference Number: 207313
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
