Maker: Betson, Thomas
Verge movement.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Thos. Betson LONDON 10485'. Balance cock with chased table and foot, foot with narrow border. Polished steel balance. Chased slide plate, silver regulation dial with radial Arabic numerals 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Case bolt polished steel, with pierced vertical end. Potance with foot having a moulding at the end, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four square pillars, scratched under dial, '10485'. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lop. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Three feet, flat on to pillar plate.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Radial Arabic 5 minute figures, dotted minute ring, radial Roman chapters.
HANDS: Blued steel beetle and poker.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
silver
Balance, Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 33.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 35.25 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 37 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 7 mm
Hands
Accession number: PW.47-1923
Primary reference Number: 207316
No.: 10485
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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