Maker: Etherington, George
Verge watch movement.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Geo. Etherington 2110'. Balance cock with symmetrically pierced and engraved table, with mask at neck, also ears and two feet with screws, foot pierced and engraved with narrow border. Steel balance. Pierced and engraved slide plate with silver regulation disc having radial Arabic figures 10 to 40. Pierced fusee iron post, fusee iron end shaped as pointed finger. Plain polished steel case bolt in slot in plate, nib at side. Potance, with short foot with moulded top surface, riveted to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four Egyptian pillars with decorative friezes, third pinion recessed into plate. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Stamped on plate side '2110', three feet.
DIAL: White enamel on copper. Radial Arabic quarter numbers, ladder minute ring, squat radial Roman chapters.
HANDS: Cast brass Louis XVI type.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1700
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
Hands
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 35.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 38.25 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 40.25 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 10 mm
Movement, Hands
Accession number: PW.46-1923
Primary reference Number: 207315
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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