IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207491 accession number: PW.57-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 6 January 2016 updated: Wednesday 4 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: watch NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Spencer George Perceval Collection creditline: Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207491 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1640 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1640 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Grinkin, Robert (junior) CITATIONS -------- Some Account of the Worshipfull Company of Clockmakers of the City of London Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Early Clockmakers of Great Britain ---