IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167067 accession number: M/P.58-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Small verge watch in oval silver case MOVEMENT: Oval full plate movement engraved 'Henry Grendon at Exchange fecit'. Balance cock with oval pierced and engraved table, rectangular post through neck, foot pierced and engraved, foot and table with irregular edges, fixed by screw near neck. Brass balance, two unused banking pin holes. Blued steel endless screw with cocks having decorated feet, cover/pointer over endless screw. Brass wheel with no dial. Both potance rivet ends engraved with flowers. Rectangular fusee iron post. Case bolt under dial plate with nib through dial. Rectangular potance, and counter potances, both with engraved sides, riveted to top plate. Pillar plate with four rectangular section, Egyptian pillars engraved on outside, ends turned and rectangular feet. Hole for potance end. Split gut fusee, barrel with two lips, tangent set-up above plate. Verge escapement. Train, three pinions, planted anti-clockwise. DIAL PLATE: Silver, oval with joint and four tabs to fit case. Engraved dial with radial Roman chapters, ladder quarter ring with half hour marks extended between chapters. Centre engraved with scene of village, flowers engraved above and below dial. HANDS: Blued steel with three leaf head and long plain baluster counterbalances, both ends the same length. CASE: Consular (?) silver case with silver cover. Having many polished ribs on case and cover running from the pendant and opening out to form a shell pattern to nearly meet, with rounded ends, on the side, area between ribs matted with small ring punch. Inside of the cover polished, having small stamp of a 'v'. Winding hole in the back of the case, covered by a pivoted shell shaped silver cover. Pendant in the form of a flower, with plain circular ring bow. 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/167067 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Grendon, Henry EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Tempus, The Art of Time CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Tempus, The Art of Time --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_58_1913_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 550 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MP_58_1913_20_281_29.jpg height: 691 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_58_1913_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 550 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MP_58_1913_20_281_29.jpg height: 345 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_58_1913_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 536 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MP_58_1913_20_282_29.jpg height: 709 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_58_1913_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 536 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MP_58_1913_20_282_29.jpg height: 354 pixels width: 250 pixels