IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207314 accession number: PW.45-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Good example of a watch with an early cylinder movement, quarter repeating, in plain silver case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Delander LONDON 307'. Balance cock with pierced table with rudimentary ears, engraved foot, polished steel end piece and ruby end stone (replacements). Polished steel balance. Engraved slide plate, silver regulating dial, with radial Arabic figures 5 to 30. Plain tulip shaped fusee iron post. Case bolt missing. Potance, with short foot, screwed to plate. Plain repeating barrel screwed to plate. Pillar plate with five turned pillars having fin, towards the pillar plate, and tapered ends, centre, third and fourth wheel in recesses. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip, all wheels solid except brass cylinder wheel. Steel cylinder. Repeating hammers in line having arbours each side of rep. barrel. Runners with depthing pinion. Train planted clockwise. Runners planted anti-clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Scratched on plate side 'Devy' crossed through, 'John Clerk nu cy', and 'fleitt'? Pulse piece missing. DIAL: Silver, three feet removed. Dot minute ring with larger outer 5 minute dots narrow ring radial lines, applied gold radial Roman chapters on engine turned, wavy lines, centre. Winding hole at 12 o'clock. Originally it was wound from the back, as can be seen by the bell, which is pierced for the key. Scratched on back 'ddl' HANDS: Blued steel spade and poker. REPEATING MECHANISM: Stogden type work with toothed repeating rack, hour snail on pivoted all-or-nothing lever (all-or-nothing star and pulse piece missing). Repeats hours and "ting-tang" quarters. CAP: Table engraved 'Delander London 307', broad steel catch. Regulation hole with indicator. BELL: Straight side with winding hole, scratched on back 'Jackson Plymouth', maker (?) 'Higgens London, (Rosevear Bristol)' and 'farquhaer'. Scatched on inside '926/69', '942/50', '7429/30', 875/64' and 'g669/LXII.' CASE: Silver gilt, plain with single back, no winding hole. Back with London HM 1747, maker's mark incuse 'JW' script under six pointed star. Inside, the electro gold plate (?) is coming off. Broken case bolt spring. 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/207314 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1747 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1747 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Delander, Daniel CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ---