IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207152 accession number: M/P.13-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 30 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in gold consular case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Verneaux A PARIS NO. 1604' Balance bridge pierced and engraved, pattern includes 'V', 'E' and 'R', polished steel coquette. Brass balance. Silver regulator dial, radial Arabic numbers 1 to 7 with 'A' and 'R' at ends. Engraved cock for fusee pivot. Engraved top of counter-potance. Back plate has square hole for balance with engraved corners and curved line along sides. Turned fusee iron post. Adjustable potance. Counter potance with adjustment screw and polished steel end plate. Polished steel case bolt, with conical end, sliding in pillar plate, nib under dial. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, sunk centre wheel. Third wheel bar with double cock for pivots under dial. Dial side with central recess, scratched 'L. E. Coutlemond'. Fusee and chain, set up click under dial. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: White enamel on copper with gilt edge. Radial Arabic quarters outside ladder minute ring with dots at 5 mins., radial Roman chapters, inner ring. Winding hole, with gold bush, at 2 o'clock. HANDS: Polished gold, heart end. CASE: Gold consular body, bezel and body edge chased with symmetrical designs, back with ring of blue translucent enamel over enging-turning, gold stars in enamel and engine turning under, inside and outside enamel ring, with ring of small white enamel blobs, centre of chased flowers. Inside back stamped with Paris charge and discharge marks of sous-fermier Jean-Baptise Fouche and Wardens mark for 1777, makers stamp of a 6 petal flower over 'JA' over 'A' in fitting recess. Pendant stamped with discharge mark of sous-fermier Julien Alaterre. Body edge scratched '364 sx/sx/-'. Back fits into groove in body 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/207152 TECHNIQUES ---------- engine turning CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1777 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1777 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Verneaux, Francois Claude Clement maker: Fouche, Jean-Baptiste maker: Alaterre, Julien CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français ---