IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207318 accession number: PW.49-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch movement. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement with 'DECHARMES LONDON' engraved in banner, with pierced ends, on slide plate between balance bridge feet. Balance bridge with table recessed to take a circular glass cover, which is missing. The outer edge is engraved with wheat ear border, centre cut away, both sides of engraved bar supporting the balance pivot. Table ends with single ears, bridge feet pierced and engraved. Steel balance with three tapered, triangular sectioned, arms. Pierced and engraved slide plate with inner raised edge to protect the balance. Silver regulating dial with radial Arabic figures 1 to 6. Pierced fusee iron post. Rectangular potance engraved one side, having small foot, riveted to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four rectangular pillars having ears at ends to support glass sides (glass and panels missing). Taped holes to fix glass panels, under dial side engraved '575' jointed engraved with monogram (?) 'CAB'. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel. Barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise. No brass edge, motion work, dial, or case 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/207318 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1690 - 1690 creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1690 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Decharmes, Simon CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Clocks and Watches in the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ---