IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207317 accession number: PW.48-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch movement. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'N Styles LONDON 612'. Balance cock, with symmetrically pierced and engraved table, with ears and mask at neck. Foot pierced and engraved. Brass balance. Snake pierced and engraved in slide plate. Silver regulation disc with radial Roman figures I to VI. Pierced fusee iron post. Blued steel case bolt and spring with vertical polished pierced end, nib at side (nib was through dial, case bolt modified). Potance with foot, having moulding at end, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars. Under dial scratched 'John Skinner April 29 1766'. BRASS EDGE: Three feet, plate side scratched '/N'. DIAL: White enamel on copper. Three feet. 5 minute radial Arabic figures, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, inner circle. HANDS: Polished beetle and blued steel 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/207317 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1766 - 1766 creation date earliest: 1766 creation date latest: 1766 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Styles, Nathaniel CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ---