Maker: Grinkin, Robert (junior)
Verge watch in gilt case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Robert Grinkin Londini'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved oval table with long neck, oval foot, both with irregular edges, screwed to plate. Steel balance. Tangent set-up on back plate, endless screw having two steel bearings with tracery feet. Gilt brass endless screw cover incorporating regulator finger. Silver set-up disc with radial Arabic figures 1 to 8, decorations on disc filled in red. Small tapered rectangular, with moulded section, fusee iron post. Blued steel fusee iron spring with vertical decorated tail, single pin to fix. Case bolt being 3/4 turn curve flat screwed to plate, nib through dial. Rectangular potance, engraved on one face, riveted to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate, plug with square decorated end. Pillar plate with four narrow Egyptian pillars with wide central slit and hole, turned tops. Hole to clear potance in plate, under dial scratched 'Grinkin 02'. Split fusee and gut (no gut), short train, large verge escape wheel. Under dial, the fusee arbour is filed to form a six pin pinion. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: None
HANDS: None
CASE: Plain gilt brass case with well rounded side, gilt brass disc to cover the winding hole. Plain, split bezel. Turned brass pendant and very long brass stirrup bow.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1640
Case
composed of
gilt brass
Diameter 44 mm
Height 53.25 mm
Thickness 18 mm
Movement
composed of
iron
silver
steel
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 36.5 mm
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 36 mm
Movement (pillar)
Diameter 6.75 mm
Pendant
Accession number: PW.57-1923
Primary reference Number: 207491
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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