Maker: Chater, Richard
Late verge watch movement.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement signed 'Richd. Chater London No. 8352' on back plate and 'Royal Exchange' on barrel bar. Small 'P' stamped at corner of barrel bar. Balance cock with table pierced and engraved with symmetrical design, edge cut away to provide banking, mask at neck and lyre at top. Foot engraved. Polished steel end piece and 'end stone'. Flat steel balance. Slide plate under balance with brass slide, with arm projecting to be read against a scale engraved on top plate above signature, scale ends marked 'F' and 'S'. Formed fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt, in slot in plate. Potance, with moulding at end of foot, screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four turned pillars. Centre wheel recessed, third and contrate wheel bridge. Under dial scratched 'RPW, 1856' and '990/1'. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Dotted minute ring with diamond shapes at quarters, radial Arabic chapters. Winding hole at 1 o'clock with brass pipe. Joint at 9 o'clock. Front wind (this is unusual for a watch of this type and date)
HANDS: Gold concave spade hour, straight steel minute.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1810
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
Hour Hand
composed of
gold
Movement, Minute Han
composed of
steel
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 35 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 40 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 4.25 mm
Accession number: PW.50-1923
Primary reference Number: 207319
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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