IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207505 accession number: PW.71-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 6 January 2016 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Quarter repeating movement MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'D Quare London 420'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table with side cut-out over regulation dial, ears, shell engraved on neck, foot engraved and pierced with narrow border. Steel end piece with diamond end stone. Steel balance. Slide plate pierced and engraved, silver regulation dial with radial Arabic figures 5 to 30. One cap post missing. Fusee iron post lyre-shaped with pierced base. Potance and counter-potance riveted to plate. Narrow repeating spring barrel engraved. Steel piece protecting fusee and main wheel from push piece. Pillar plate with five turned baluster pillars. Third wheel recessed. Under dial, two posts with side tapped holes to fix brass edge. Fusee and chain with tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. Repeating hour rack between repeating main wheel and barrel. Hammers planted clockwise. Runners planted anti-clockwise, five pinions, depthing pinion. BRASS EDGE: Secured by two screws through sides, acanthus leaf border engraved on edge. Case bolt projecting through slot. Slot for pulse piece (missing). On the underside are four holes with pin slots unused, new holes for present dial. DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Radial 5 minute Arabic figures, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, inner circle. HANDS: Blued steel, beetle and poker. REPEATING MECHANISM: 1/4 repeating work with repeating rack. All-or-nothing lever moved by top pivot of hour rack and star wheel. Hour rack between plates. 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/207505 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1710 - 1710 creation date earliest: 1710 creation date latest: 1710 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Quare, Daniel CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ---