Maker: Papillion, Franco
Verge alarm watch in silver pair case
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Franco Papillion in Firenze'. Large balance cock, table with ears, pierced and engraved with winding hole, foot pierced and engraved with thin edge. Brass balance. Slide plate, on each side of cock, pierced and engraved, silver regulation dial with Arabic figures 5 to 30. Alarm stop work missing. Wheel and pinion? Rectangular fusee iron post formed to lyre at end. Potance and counter-potance riveted to plate. Rectangular escap. hole with engraved lines and corners. Case bolt/spring on dial plate, nib through dial. Alarm barrel pierced and engraved, and screwed to plate. Alarm potance chased, potance and counter-potance screwed to plate. Pillar plate with five tulip pillars, second alarm wheel bridge with three feet. Split fusee, barrel with one lip, tangent set-up under barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. Steel three pinion alarm train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL PLATE: Gilt brass with three ribbed turned feet, outer engraved band, sink for dial. Case bolt/spring with flat decorated tail
HAND: Blued steel, 'beaded' head and tail.
DIAL: Silver, narrow, radial Roman chapters with diamond shaped half hour marks. Ladder quarter hour ring with dots at hours, and four arrows as cross at half hours.
ALARM DISC: Silver, radial Arabic hours, ladder half hour ring, dots at hours, central flower. Alarm marker steel tulip riveted to edge of disc.
BELL: With two winding holes
INNER CASE: Silver, side pierced and engraved with flowers, foliage and faces, face and two snakes at 6 o'clock. Plain back with covers for winding holes, one missing. Ring, with joint pinned to inside of case. Bezel, plain and split. Stepped, cylindrical, pendant, cheese top, flat stirrup bow.
OUTER CASE (A): Silver frame, brass body pierced with sets of six holes. Covered with shagreen, much missing, and decorated with silver pins. Bezel, silver frame with brass edge with ring of silver pins, some missing.
Frank Gray Smart Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1913-06-05) by Smart, Frank Gray
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1690
Dial Plate
composed of
gilt brass
Fusee Post
composed of
iron
Outer Case Covering
composed of
shagreen
Inner Case, Studs
composed of
silver
Outer Case Frame
composed of
silver
Inner Case
composed of
steel
Diameter 49.25 mm
Height 64 mm
Thickness 33.25 mm
Dial, Hour Hand
composed of
steel
Balance, Outer Case
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 39 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 41 mm
Movement (dial Plate)
Diameter 42.75 mm
Outer Case
Diameter 57.5 mm
Height 68.75 mm
Thickness 37 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 9.5 mm
Hand
Movement, Cases
Movement
Mvoement, Dial Plate
Accession number: M/P.30-1913
Primary reference Number: 207165
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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