IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207141 accession number: M/P.7-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 27 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in polychrome enamel case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'G Du Val A Paris'. Balance cock table and foot, pierced and engraved with wavy edge, foot elongated to the edge of the plate. Brass balance. Brass set-up worm wheel, steel worm with blued steel supports having fine pierced feet. Blued steel worm guard and pointer. Rectangular fusee iron post with decorated end. Blued steel case bolt screwed to pillar plate, nib through pillar plate. Rectangular potance riveted to top plate. Counter-potance, cock with decorated foot screwed to top plate. Pillar plate with four turned baluster pillars, second and third wheel bar. Cut out for potance. Dial side with zig-zag engraved border, with a scratch mark under the dial, 'Cotori' (unclear). Split gut fusee, barrel with top lip only. Shake hours. Verge escapment. Train, four pinions, planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: White enamel on gold, outer pattern, ring, radial Roman chapters, quarter hour ladder ring with half-hour lines between chapters. Centre polychrome painting of child Jesus, with a lamb to his left and a landscape to the right. Back counter enamelled. HAND: Blued steel, gold arrow, crescent tail. CASE: Gold body with two recesses in band and one large recess in back which contains polychrome enamel, side panels of country scenes, and a back depiction of Madonna with Jesus and an angel. The inside of the case is plain gold. Bezel of pink gold bright cut. Gold ball turned pendant with a d section ring. Inside of the ring is chased, reading from the split 'Z: UX: J. GREEN A.' 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: Frank Gray Smart Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207141 TECHNIQUES ---------- bluing TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Val, Gabriel du CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français ---