IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207285 accession number: PW.16 & A-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in silver pair case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement, engraved 'Eardley Norton London'. Balance bridge with circular pierced table, steel end piece with faceted red end stone, rectangular engraved feet extending to edge of plate. Brass balance. Engraved slide plate, extends both sides of balance bridge, plain polished steel regulator disc. Turned fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt slides in slot in pillar plate, nib under dial. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance, with polished steel end plate and adjusting screw, screwed to top plate. Pillar plate with four five sided baluster pillars with turned top, sunk centre wheel. Third wheel bar. Joint riveted to top plate has one leg missing, the other has a stopped and re-drilled pin hole. Number '387' stamped on pillar plate adjacent to pillar next to the barrel. Fusee and chain with click set-up under dial. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: White enamel on copper, three dial feet, all broken at the pin hole. Minute circle of short lines, 5 minute dots, radial Arabic quarter numbers, radial Roman chapters, ringed central polychrome painting of Dutch scene of ship, houses and windmill. Lower half with ground edge. HANDS: Gold, beetle hour hand, thin minute hand pierced segment below straight end. INNER CASE: Silver, HM London 1813, broad pendant HM London 1813 with maker's mark 'LB' in rectangular cameo. Second winding hole filled in. Bull's eye glass. OUTER CASE (A): Silver, repousse with scene of man fishing in canal/river with bridge and houses. '898' stamped inside below pendant. Too small for inner title: watch NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Spencer George Perceval Collection creditline: Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207285 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their marks and lives, from original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources ---