Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Martin, John (watchmaker)
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge movement
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'I MARTIN 391 LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table with ears, mask at nect, foot pierced and engraved with border. Brass balance. Slide plate pierced and engraved with wavy edge, silver regulation dial with radial Arabic figures 1 to 6. Fusee iron post pierced. Case bolt with flat decorated foot, nib through dial. Potance and counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four square section baluster pillars, shallow centre wheel recess (replaced joint). Fusee and chain, click set-up under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Three feet, engraved outside dial recess.
DIAL: Silver champleve, three feet. Outer 5 minute cushions with radial Arabic figures, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, inner ring, central hole with disc behind. Disc with plaques above and below engraved 'MARTIN' and 'LONDON'. The quality of engraving on the disc is not up to the standard of the rest of the dial.
HANDS: Blued steel, beetle and poker.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Movement
composed of
iron
Thickness 22 mm
Dial
composed of
enamel
Movement, Dial
composed of
silver
Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 34.25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 36 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 38 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 22 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'I MARTIN 391 LONDON'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's name
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.69-1923
Primary reference Number: 207503
No.: 391
Stable URI
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
