IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207316 accession number: PW.47-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge movement. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Thos. Betson LONDON 10485'. Balance cock with chased table and foot, foot with narrow border. Polished steel balance. Chased slide plate, silver regulation dial with radial Arabic numerals 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Case bolt polished steel, with pierced vertical end. Potance with foot having a moulding at the end, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four square pillars, scratched under dial, '10485'. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lop. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Three feet, flat on to pillar plate. DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Radial Arabic 5 minute figures, dotted minute ring, radial Roman chapters. HANDS: Blued steel beetle and poker. 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/207316 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Betson, Thomas CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Watches. The Paul M. Chamberlain collection at the Art Institute of Chicago American Horologist and Jeweller ---