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Watch: PW.25 & A-1923

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Rawe, James
Case maker: Palmer, R.

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Description

Verge watch in plain silver pair case.

MOVEMENT: Full plate movement signed 'James Rawe Fowe'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table and foot, fish engraved on table at neck. Polished steel balance. Pierced and engraved applied plate, silver regulating dial with Arabic figures 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Potance, with moulding at end of foot, fixed with screw. Counter-potance riveted to top plate. Blued steel sliding case bolt, with pierced ears, nib through dial. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up, one lip on barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.

BRASS EDGE: Gilt brass, three feet.

DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Radial Arabic 5 minute figures, ladder minute circle, radial Roman chapters, thin inner circle. Signed 'Wm PASCOE' above and 'PENZANCE' below centre.

HANDS: Blued steel, beetle and poker.

INNER CASE: Silver, plain. HM London 1760. Maker's cameo mark 'R pellet P' in rectangle with chamfered corners.

OUTER CASE (A): Silver, plain. HM London 1760. Maker's cameo mark 'R pellet P' in rectangle with chamfered corners. Scratch marks inside '3476' 'AL' 'Bed' '3473 Al'.

Notes

History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)

Legal notes

Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922

Place(s) associated

  • Fowey ⪼ Cornwall ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1760

Components of the work

Dial composed of enamel ( on copper) copper
Brass Edge composed of gilt brass
Movement composed of iron
Movement, Cases composed of silver
Movement, Hands composed of steel
Movement (back Plate) Diameter 34 mm
Movement (pillar Plate) Diameter 35 mm
Movement (brass Edge) Diameter 37.5 mm
Inner Case Diameter 43 mm Height 50.5 mm Thickness 25 mm
Outer Case Diameter 50.75 mm Height 54 mm Thickness 25.75 mm
Movement (pillar) Height 6.75 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Location: Cases
  • Type: Hallmark
  • Text: 'James Rawe Fowe'
  • Location: Movement
  • Type: Maker's name

Inscription present: in rectangle with chamfered corners

  • Text: 'R pellet P'
  • Location: Cases
  • Type: Maker's mark
  • Text: 'Wm PASCOE' above and 'PENZANCE'
  • Location: Dial
  • Type: Owner's signature

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: PW.25 & A-1923
Primary reference Number: 207294
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 9 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

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