Maker: Miles, Septimus, jnr
Lever movement.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement signed on cuvette 'Septimus Miles, Ludgate Street, LONDON No. 2936'. Balance cock with wedge shaped table with open centre. Scale engraved on neck with 'S' and 'F' engraved on arms. Blued steel end piece with diamond end stone. Polished steel regulator fitting to central boss. Foot engraved, with convex side, ending in point. Fusee and hand-set squares through cock foot. Polished steel balance. Plate engraved with circular pattern, with clear ring under balance. Shaped fusee iron post. Pillar plate with four turned pillars. Bridge to take third escape, lever and balance, not gilt. Two blocks riveted to pillar plate, on inside, with tapped holes for brass edge. Third wheel bar. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial. 90 degree English lever escapement with single roller, jewelled impulse pin. Train planted clockwise, reversed for escapement.
BRASS EDGE: Gilt with engraved flat ring of casing dial, with cuvette. Back of cuvette engraved as above and with cart-horse pulling a trace from around the winding hole, also as a pair of watch hands centre on set-hand hole. Cuvette spring and cuvette catch spring present, but fixing screws are missing.
DIAL: White enamel, convex, on copper, with two feet. Ladder minute ring, diamond shapes at quarters, thick radial Roman chapters.
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 1800
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
Brass Edge
composed of
gilt
End Stone
composed of
diamond
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 37.5 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 39.5 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 51.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 4.5 mm
Accession number: PW.51-1923
Primary reference Number: 207320
No.: 2936
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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