IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207294 accession number: PW.25 & A-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 9 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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'. 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/207294 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Rawe, James maker: Palmer, R. CITATIONS -------- London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their marks and lives, from original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources Cornish Clocks and Clockmakers ---