IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 200552 accession number: M/P.35 & A-D-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 10 February 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in gold pair case and tortoiseshell outer case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Ge. Prior 15736 LONDON', also on cap. Dial inscribed 'George Prior', 'LONDON'. Balance cock, pierced and engraved table. Crossed fasces under a phrygian cap at top and lyre at neck. Blued steel end piece with faceted red end stone. Cock foot engraved. Brass balance. Engaged slide plate, extended over barrel, with silver regulation dial with radial Arabic figures 5 to 30. Plain rectangular fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt in brass edge. Adjustable potance, counter-potance screwed to underside of top plate with polished steel end plate and adjustment screw. Plain repeating barrel. Pillar plate with 4 plain turned pillars. Sunk centre wheel. Third wheel double cock under dial. Second wheel of repeating train sunk. Fusee and chain, barrel with one lip, set up click under dial. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise. Polished steel hammers, planted clockwise, hour under contrate wheel and quarter outside runners. Runners with five pinions and depthing pinion. REPEATING WORK: Polished steel 1/4 work with repeating rack chain and pulley. All-or-nothing lever with hour snail and star wheel mounted under. Swiss work. By pushing the repeater button at the top, it would be possible to 'hear' the time sounded out to within a quarter hour BRASS EDGE: Plain, fixed to pillar plate by three clamps. Stamped '64' under dial. 'D' scratched next to dial screws. CAP: Raised oval signed as above. Half circular cut out for regulation dial. Blued steel slide. DIAL: White enamel on copper, counter enamel scribed '64', two feet. Radial Turkish 5 minute figures, dotted ladder minute ring, radial Turkish chapters, inner ring. 'GEORGE PRIOR' inscribed under 12 o'clock and 'LONDON' inscribed above 6 o'clock. Counter enamel inscribed '64'. HANDS: Blued steel 'Breguet' type. BELL: Curved shaped with raised central pad. INNER CASE: Gold bright cut and pierced band with plain back. Plain pendant with stripe bow. Inside gilt, stamped '15736' and makers stamp 'I.E' inside lozenge with arrow heads pointing outwards from ends. Stamped with small horse's head, looking to right. Scratched inside under pendant '8.07.8'. Plain bezel and slide dumb piece. OUTER CASE (A): Gold, bezel and body edge with four coloured foliage pattern, and pierced. Back with four colour gold and silver decoration of a vase and foliage. Inside body stamped '15736', makers mark 'I.E' in lozenge. Fake set of London Hall Marks (upper case 'U' no tail). Both halves of the pendant stamped with maker's mark, square stamp with 'ET' in top half, with triangle or division mark below. PROTECTIVE CASE (B): Tortoiseshell on gilt brass. Chased edges, bezel and body covered with tortoiseshell having band of pins. Sets of four gilt pins with enamel and gilt pins between. The enamel pins have a central green spot with outer red and white spots on a pale blue ground. The watch has a triple case to protect the movement from dry and dusty environment WATCH PAPER (C): Printed on white paper 'George Prior / Clock and Watch Maker / in Prescot Street, / Goodmans Fields / London.' WATCH KEY (D): Four coloured gold panels, crossed swords and flowers one side, and flowers on the other. title: watch NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before Frank Gray Smart LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F.G. Smart Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/200552 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Swiss maker maker: Prior, George EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers A Guide to Old French Plate --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 937 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_M_P_35_1913_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 546 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 937 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_M_P_35_1913_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 273 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_2_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1016 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_M_P_35_1913_2_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 496 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_2_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1016 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_M_P_35_1913_2_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 248 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_3_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 971 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_M_P_35_1913_3_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 474 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_3_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 971 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_M_P_35_1913_3_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 237 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_4_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 827 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_M_P_35_1913_4_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 619 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_4_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 827 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_M_P_35_1913_4_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 310 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_5_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_M_P_35_1913_5_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_5_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_M_P_35_1913_5_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_6_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 893 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/mid_M_P_35_1913_6_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 573 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/M_P_35_1913_6_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 893 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa31/preview_M_P_35_1913_6_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 287 pixels width: 250 pixels