IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77476 accession number: M/P.9 & A-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch with 'wandering hour dial' in filigree. Gold case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Baltazar Martinot A Paris'. Balance cock with oval table and foot, both pierced and engraved. Steel balance. Silver set-up dial with radial Arabic figures 1 to 8, over brass worm wheel. Steel worm with blued steel brackets having large pierced feet. Worm guard and pointer missing. Rectangular fusee iron post, fusee iron spring fixed by projection through top plate. Case bolt with flat decorative foot on brass edge, with nib through dial. Triangular potance with engraved side, riveted to plate, end of rivet engraved. Counter-potance with foot screwed to under-side of top plate at edge. Engraving around rectangular escapement hole. Pillar plate with four turned baluster pillars. Under dial brass pin to turn hour disks BRASS EDGE: Four pillars spacing edge from plate, centre removed for hour dial. The dial side has an engraved border. Riveted joint. DIAL: White enamel on gold, four feet. Semi-circular slot in top half, outside slot radial 5 min. figures, 00 to 60 ladder minute arc. Inside slot radial Roman quarters 00 to III. Centre and lower half polychrome enamel, counter enamel. Wandering hour disc; gilt brass with two rectangular hour apertures, with an engraved strip of country scene and buildings, between the apertures. Two silver discs pivoted behind apertures engraved with Roman hours (I, III, V...). Enamel depiction of a classical painting, possible the 'Return of Ulysses'. INNER CASE: Gold, plain with winding hole, and scratched on the outside '294 53 (reversed) O/-/-'. Bezel split. Turned ball pendent, with plain ring bow. OUTER CASE (A): Gold, fine filigree. title: watch LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Gray Smart creditline: Bequeathed by Frank Gray Smart STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77476 TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Martinot, Balthazar CITATIONS -------- Watches, Their History, Decoration and Mechanism Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français Catalogue des Montres du Musee du Louvre Tome I La Collection Olivier --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_9_20_26_20A_1913.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MP_9_20_26_20A_1913.jpg height: 493 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_9_20_26_20A_1913.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MP_9_20_26_20A_1913.jpg height: 247 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/MP_9A_1913.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_MP_9A_1913.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/MP_9A_1913.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_MP_9A_1913.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels