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Watch: PW.67-1923

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Gout, Ralph

Entities

Categories

Description

Verge watch and pedometer in Pinchbeck case.

MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'By the Kings Letters PATENT Ralph Gout London No 193' and 'Ralph Gout London No. 193' on cap table. Balance cock with table pierced and engraved with helmet and trophies of war at top, and an urn in an oval frame engraved at the neck. Foot engraved. Blued steel end piece and diamond end stone. Polished steel balance. Engraved slide plate with silver regulation dial with radial Arabic numbers 5 to 30. Pierced fusee iron post. Potance, with short narrow foot, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Top plate stamped '193' underneath dial. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, having rings at ends. Second wheel recessed into pillar plate. Second wheel not in centre, but up under 12 o'clock, under time dial. Under dial, brass bridge for pedometer train, plate stamped '193'. Fusee and chain, set-up click under slide plate, off-centre second wheel, verge escapement. Pedometer operating lever across pillar plate under pendant. Train planted anti-clockwise.

CAP: Engraved, as above, on raised oval table. Regulation dial aperture with central pointer. Blued steel cap slide. All corners moulded. Side cut-away to clear pedometer lever and pendant rod. Form changed after gilding.

BRASS EDGE: With joint. Scratched on movement side '93' and 'WW'. Dial in recess with very narrow edge.

DIAL: Flat white enamel on copper, two feet. Outer dial and three subsidiary dials. Outer dial with small radial Arabic numbers 5 to 100, and 100 short lines. Bottom right and left sub-dials, radial Arabic figures 1 to 10. Upper central time dial with radial Arabic quarters, 60 missing, dot minute ring, radial Roman chapters. Lettered between sub-dials 'RALPH...GOUT...LONDON'.

HANDS: Gold, central hand straight with crescent moon counter weight, hand bent to miss cannon pinion. Bottom sub dial's hands with pierced diamond ends. Pierced diamond hour hand, straight minute hand.

CASE: Plain polished single backed Pinchbeck consular case, with pierced pedometer lever pivoted in pendant. The case inside the back is raised to cover the movement. Back stamped inside '193' in centre and 'O' at 6 o'clock, scratch marked 'ynm'. Pendant spring screw holes present.

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

19th Century
Production date: circa AD 1800

Components of the work

Dial composed of enamel ( white) copper
Movement composed of iron steel brass (alloy)
Case composed of pinchbeck Diameter 56.5 mm Height 143.5 mm Height 80.5 mm Thickness 27.25 mm
Movement, End Stone composed of diamond
Hands composed of gold
Movement (pillar Plate) Diameter 41.5 mm
Movement (top Plate) Diameter 41 mm
Movement (brass Edge) Diameter 45.75 mm
Movement (pillar) Height 4.75 mm
Movement, Case
Movement, Hands

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 'Ralph Gout London No. 193'
  • Location: Movement
  • Method of creation: Engraved
  • Type: Maker's name
  • Text: '93' and 'WW'
  • Location: Brass edge
  • Method of creation: Scratched
  • Type: Mark
  • Text: '193' and 'O'
  • Location: Case
  • Method of creation: Stamped
  • Type: Number
  • Text: 'ynm'
  • Location: Case
  • Method of creation: Scratched
  • Type: Mark

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: PW.67-1923
Primary reference Number: 207501
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 6 January 2016 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

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