IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207310 accession number: PW.41-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in silver pair case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Edw Perry LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table with ears, having symmetrical design with two birds, mask at neck, foot pierced and engraved, having narrow edge chamfered at plate edge with wheat ear engraving. Steel balance. Slide plate pierced and engraved with irregular edge. Foot near name plain. Silver regulation dial, with Arabic figures 5 to 20. Fusee iron post pierced. Bright steel case bolt with flat decorative foot. Potance with short foot riveted to plate. Counter-potance riveted. Pillar plate with four plain Egyptian pillars. Fusee and chain, tangent set up under barrel, one lip on barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Gilt with engraved ring outside dial, three feet (one missing). Four unused dial holes. DIAL: White enamel on copper with three feet. Radial 5 minute Arabic figure, ladder minute ring, squat radial Roman chapters, inner circle. HANDS: Blued steel beetle and poker. INNER CASE: Plain silver, split bezel (glass missing). Inside case stamped with maker's mark, incise 'SD'. Ball pendant on cylindrical stem, ring bow. OUTER CASE (A): Plain silver, back engraved 'W * M' in centre. No maker's or other marks inside. 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/207310 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Perry, Edward maker: Davies, Samuel CITATIONS -------- London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their marks and lives, from original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World ---