IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207320 accession number: PW.51-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 10 December 2015 updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/207320 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Miles, Septimus, jnr CITATIONS -------- Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ---