IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207292 accession number: PW.23-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Unusual type of verge watch in silver inner case only. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement signed on slide plate around the regulating dial, 'T. WELDON 2552 LONDON.' Balance bridge with long feet, table pierced and engraved 'lace' edging, feet engraved. Steel balance. Pierced and engraved slide plate covering whole of the back plate, with 'lace' edge. Silver regulating dial engraved with Arabic figure 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Steel case bolt and spring, vertical pierced foot, nib through dial. Potance, with moulding at end of foot, screwed to top plate. Counter-potance riveted to top plate. Pillar plate with four square baluster shaped pillars. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: Silver, outer frieze. 5 minute plaques with radial Arabic figures, arched 'ladder' minute ring, radial Roman chapters with gilt pins between (5 missing). Pierced recessed central plaque showing a lion rampant to the left, unicorn rampant to right and a crown under 12 o'clock above a curved plaque engraved 'WELDON'. Curved plaque above 6 o'clock with date aperture in centre, sides engraved 'LON' 'DON', silver disc behind. BRASS EDGE: Gilt brass, three feet, recess for calendar wheel under dial, scratched '2552', 'P Wlern' (?) and 'horne' (?) INNER CASE: Silver, plain, glass missing, London HM 1763. Maker's mark incuse 'WT' under a coronet. Outside of case engraved 'W W' with swag between, at 6 o'clock of the case and read from the pendant. 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/207292 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1763 - 1763 creation date earliest: 1763 creation date latest: 1763 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Weldon, T. maker: Thomas, William (case maker) 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 ---