Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Chater, Richard
Entities
Categories
Description
Late verge watch movement.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement signed 'Richd. Chater London No. 8352' on back plate and 'Royal Exchange' on barrel bar. Small 'P' stamped at corner of barrel bar. Balance cock with table pierced and engraved with symmetrical design, edge cut away to provide banking, mask at neck and lyre at top. Foot engraved. Polished steel end piece and 'end stone'. Flat steel balance. Slide plate under balance with brass slide, with arm projecting to be read against a scale engraved on top plate above signature, scale ends marked 'F' and 'S'. Formed fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt, in slot in plate. Potance, with moulding at end of foot, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four turned pillars. Centre wheel recessed, third and contrate wheel bridge. Under dial scratched 'RPW, 1856' and '990/1'. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Dotted minute ring with diamond shapes at quarters, radial Arabic chapters. Winding hole at 1 o'clock with brass pipe. Joint at 9 o'clock. Front wind (this is unusual for a watch of this type and date)
HANDS: Gold concave spade hour, straight steel minute.
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
Hour Hand
composed of
gold
Movement, Minute Han
composed of
steel
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 35 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 40 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 4.25 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'Richd. Chater London No. 8352'
- Location: Movement
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: 'RPW, 1856'
- Location: Under dial
- Method of creation: Scratched
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.50-1923
Primary reference Number: 207319
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
