IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118365 accession number: M/F.4-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 17 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: 4 1/2 inch diameter dial with gilt engine-turned centre and bezel. Narrow enamel chapter ring with 100 minute divisions on the inner edge each divided into halves, with arabic numerals 1 - 10 for the hours, and seconds divisions on the outer edge numbered 10, 20 - 100. Blued steel hands, plain for minutes and voided spade design for hours and sweep seconds. Small enamel dial inset above the centre with hours I - XII twice and minutes on the outer edge numbered 15, 30, 45, 60. Signed above the lower XII `Destigny A Rouen'. Moon design hour and minute hands. Movement: Timepiece movement, reputed to run for 45 days, so intended to be wound monthly. Going bar¬rel with dead beat escapement and beat setting adjustment to crutch. Half decimal second pendulum with 9 rod grid iron compensation and massive bob. A pointer is fixed to the bottom of the bob to show the amplitude of vibration on a degree scale fixed to the case. Case: Pine carcase veneered with mahogany. In the form of a rectangular plinth with four Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and with gilt metal mounts. object type: Pine case veneered with mahogany, with dials showing decimal time and duodecimal time. The movement with 'dead-beat' escapement, and a half decimal second pendulum, with gridiron compensation title: clock LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs Sigismund Goetze STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118365 CATEGORIES ------ category: clocks DATING ------ creation date: 1798 - 1805 creation date earliest: 1798 creation date latest: 1805 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Destigny, Pierre Daniel DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 48.3 dimension: Height units: in value: 19 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Tempus, The Art of Time CITATIONS -------- Tempus, The Art of Time Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Paris, City of Revolution Important French Clocks --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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