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Watch: PW.48-1923

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Styles, Nathaniel

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)

Legal notes

Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922

Place(s) associated

  • London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1766

Components of the work

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

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 'N Styles LONDON 612'
  • Location: Movement
  • Method of creation: Engraved
  • Type: Maker's name
  • Text: 'John Skinner April 29 1766'
  • Location: Under dial
  • Method of creation: Scratched
  • Type: Name and date
  • Text: '/N'
  • Location: Brass edge
  • Method of creation: Scratched
  • Type: Mark

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: PW.48-1923
Primary reference Number: 207317
No.: 612

Audit data

Created: Thursday 10 December 2015 Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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