IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207315 accession number: PW.46-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/207315 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Etherington, George CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ---