Maker:
Bonnevye, Claude
Case maker:
Unknown
Verge watch in gold form case.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'C. Bonneuie A Paris'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table and foot, foot elongated to diameter of plate. Steel balance. Tangent set up with blued steel brackets having trellis work feet supporting the worm. Worm wheel, dial and pointer missing. Rectangular fusee iron post with chamfered outer edges. Fusee iron and spring missing. Rectangular potance, engraved on side, and counter-potance riveted to top plate. Pillar plate with four turned thin baluster pillars. Joint on pillar plate cut off at edge of plate. Under dial side with an engraved border. Case nib hole filled in with iron plug, case bolt spring holes present. Hole end for end of potance. Split gut fusee, barrel with two lips. Verge escapement. Train, three pinions, planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL PLATE: Gold with four tangs to fit case, joint attached. Engraved with foliage and dragons, inside chapter ring with lion's face. Applied gold chapter ring with radial Roman chapters and half-hour marks.
HAND: Blued steel
CASE: Gold circular with scalloped flat sides. Plain circular inside with engraved plate at back with circular hole around movement top plate, turned drop, square leaf form pendant with ring bow. Thickness of body hollow. Two covers having scalloped edges, tapering on outside to central plain circle. Insides plain.
Frank Gray Smart Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1913-06-05) by Smart, Frank Gray
1650 CE - 1850
Fusee Post
composed of
iron
Fusee
composed of
gut
Case, Dial
composed of
gold
Movement, Hour Hand
composed of
steel
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 29.5 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 31 mm
Movement (dial Plate)
Diameter 33 mm
Case
Height 54.5 mm
Thickness 22.75 mm
Width 37.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 8 mm
Movement, Dial, Case
Movement
Steel
Accession number: M/P.26-1913
Primary reference Number: 207161
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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