IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207538 accession number: PW.104-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 7 January 2016 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gilt brass outer case covered in tortoise shell. OUTER CASE: Well worn gilt brass covered with tortoiseshell painted on reverse with black areas above colouring in shell, and a light green background. Bezel covered with tortoiseshell with central ring of pins, ten sets of three pins with decorated heads, with plain headed pins between. (One set of three pins missing, three sets with one pin missing and four sets with two pins missing, four plain pins missing). Body covered with tortoiseshell with ring of pins, as bezel, at edge. (One set of three pins missing, four sets with one pin missing and one set with two pins missing, two plain pins missing, two decorative headed pins missing next to pendant.) Back with set of holes for large decorative pattern of pins. Pendant slot 3/4 in body and 1/4 in bezel. 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/207538 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 51 dimension: Thickness units: mm value: 17.75 dimension: Width units: mm value: 50.75