IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207161 accession number: M/P.26-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 30 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/207161 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1850 CREATORS -------- maker: Bonnevye, Claude maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français L'horlogerie Ancienne. Histoire, décor et technique ---