Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Rawe, James
Case maker:
Palmer, R.
Entities
Categories
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
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
