Maker: Unknown
Verge watch with gold consular case set with pearls.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement not signed. Balance bridge pierced and engraved, polished steel end piece with round red end stone, with '14' scratched on the underside of the foot. Brass balance. Large silver regulation dial with 'AVANCE' and 'RETARD'. Fusee and barrel holes ringed. Turned fusee iron post. Adjustable potance. Counter-potance with polished steel end piece and adjusting screw. Polished steel, truncated cone, case bolt in slot in plate, nib through edge. Pillar plate ith four turned pillars, third wheel bar, under dial stamped '707' and scratched '14'. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, one lip on barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: Gold, outer ring, minute ring with minute strokes and dots every 5 min., radial Roman chapters and inner ring all raised and polished. Matt chapter background and engine turned centre of dial.
HANDS: 'Breguet' style blued steel.
CASE: Gold with bezel and back having an outer circle of pearls, centre of back engine turned. Inside back stamped '50' and scratched '1+/-/-.' Spherical pendant stamped '27707' and '50' on front, ring bow with unidentified stamps.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
Case
composed of
pearls
Diameter 35.25 mm
Height 41 mm
Thickness 12.5 mm
End-stone
composed of
ruby
Dial, Case
composed of
gold
Movement
composed of
silver
brass (alloy)
Movement, Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (pillar)
Diameter 2.5 mm
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 28 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 29.25 mm
Hands
Accession number: PW.19-1923
Primary reference Number: 207288
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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