Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Dunlop, Andrew
Case maker:
Willoughby, John
(Possibly)
Entities
-
Watch
- repeating verge watch
Categories
Description
Quarter repeating verge watch.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Andr Dunlop LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table, mask engraved at neck, the edge cut away to provide banking, blued steel end piece with diamond end stone, cock foot pierced and engraved, thin edge. Brass balance with three wide arms. Slide plate pierced and engraved, free form edge, silver regulator dial with radial Roman figures I to VI. Pierced fusee iron bracket. Rectangular potance and counter-potance riveted to back plate. Case bolt in brass edge, nib through dial. Plain repeating barrel. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, having large ring near pillar plate. Third wheel bar. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up. Verge escapement. Anti-clockwise train. Runners with five pinions, speed governed by depthing pinion. Two repeating hammers. Runners planted anti-clockwise. Repeating mechanism; 1/4 mechanism with pivoted 'all-or-nothing' level, hour snail and star wheel pivoted on plate and in lever. 1/4 snail with surprise piece. Steel work with grained finish.
BRASS EDGE: Brass, gilt, chased around dial. Pulse piece. Scratched on under side '8/22/k'. Fixed by two screws through side.
CAP: Gilt brass engraved 'Andr Dunlop LONDON'.
DIAL: Gold, champleve engraved in centre 'DUNLOP' below 12 o'clock and 'LONDON' above 6. Polished outer 5 minute cushions, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, thin diamond half-hour marks between chapters, 1/2 hour ring. Matted background. On the back is '8/22/19'
HANDS: Steel, blued beetle and poker.
BELL: Scratched 'Chy 8/22' and 'Lumpkin' on back.
INNER CASE: Gilt metal with incuse I pellet W maker's mark, marked twice. Pattern of round, ringed holes around side and plain back. Bezel split.
The outer case is missing.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
The inner case of the watch may have been made by either William Cooper of Lamb Court, Clerkenwell Green, or William Ginn who was free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1700. The movement was not by Thomas Tompion although his name is engraved on it.
Components of the work
Dial, Inner Case
composed of
gilt
Dial
composed of
enamel
Movement
composed of
silver
steel
Movement, Brass Edge
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 33.25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 35.5 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 39 mm
Case
Diameter 45.5 mm
Height 59.75 mm
Thickness 26.5 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 6.75 mm
Brass Edge
Movement, Hands
Movement, Inner Case
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'Andr Dunlop LONDON'
- Location: Movement, cap, dial
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: '8/22/k'
- Location: Brass edge
- Method of creation: Scratched
- Type: Number
- Text: 'Chy 8/22' and 'Lumpkin'
- Location: Bell
- Method of creation: Scratched
- Type: Mark
- Text: '8/22/19'
- Location: Back of dial
- Type: Number
- Text: incuse I pellet W
- Location: Inner case
- Type: Maker's mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.2-1923
Primary reference Number: 207271
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 8 December 2015
Updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
