Maker: Styles, Nathaniel
Verge watch movement.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'N Styles LONDON 612'. Balance cock, with symmetrically pierced and engraved table, with ears and mask at neck. Foot pierced and engraved. Brass balance. Snake pierced and engraved in slide plate. Silver regulation disc with radial Roman figures I to VI. Pierced fusee iron post. Blued steel case bolt and spring with vertical polished pierced end, nib at side (nib was through dial, case bolt modified). Potance with foot, having moulding at end, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars. Under dial scratched 'John Skinner April 29 1766'.
BRASS EDGE: Three feet, plate side scratched '/N'.
DIAL: White enamel on copper. Three feet. 5 minute radial Arabic figures, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, inner circle.
HANDS: Polished beetle and blued steel 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 1766
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
silver
brass (alloy)
Movment, Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 33.25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 34.25 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 36.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 7 mm
Hands
Accession number: PW.48-1923
Primary reference Number: 207317
No.: 612
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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