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Watch: PW.46-1923

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Etherington, George

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)

Legal notes

Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922

Place(s) associated

  • London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1700

Components of the work

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

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: PW.46-1923
Primary reference Number: 207315
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 10 December 2015 Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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