IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207506 accession number: PW.72-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 6 January 2016 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch movement MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Lowndes in Pallmall London'. Balance cock with table pierced and engraved with ears, foot pierced and engraved with wavy edge. Steel balance. Silver regulation dial, Arabic figures 1 to 4. Pierced fusee iron post. Case bolt, in slot in plate and brass edge, nib under dial. Potance, side engraved, riveted to plate. Counter-potance with decorative foot, riveted to plate, side engraved with straight lines. Pillar plate with four narrow tulip pillars, small slot next to case bolt, for original case bolt. Under dial fusee arbor squared, 'T' stamp next to barrel arbor, scratched arrow outwards from barrel pivot. Joint cut off at edge of plate. Split fusee and chain with tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with two lips. Second wheel arbour decoratively turned, third and contrate arbours plain. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Flat and large diameter with joint (replacement). DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Ladder minute circle with diamond marks at quarters, radial Roman chapters. HANDS: None 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/207506 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1690 - 1690 creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1690 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Lowndes, Isaac CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers English Domestic Clocks ---