Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Pybus, William
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge watch with white enamel dials on both sides, in a gilt metal case with red pastes around the dial.
Verge watch with double dial in gilt metal case.
MOVEMENT: Under calendar dial, top plate; plain balance bridge with steel pin for day-of-month wheel, and brass click and spring on table. Steel balance. Plain slide plat. Calendar train under bridge. Steel stop lever, brass stop wire missing. Solid lyre-shaped fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt, nib under dial. Potance screwed to plate. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Polished steel stop lever projecting from brass edge at 9 o'clock. Pillar plate with four turned and slightly tapered pillars. Third wheel bar under time dial. Steel bridge for hour wheel. Fusee and chain with set-up click under time dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: (Time) three feet, edge half height cylindrical half concave ring.
BRASS EDGE: (Calendar) three feet, joint riveted to edge. Dial on raised dia. on concave base, two slot in edge for case bolt and stop lever.
DIAL (TIME): White enamel on copper with three feet. Outer radial Arabic 5 minute figures, minute circle with thin radial minute lines with 1/4 minute dots between. Radial Roman chapters.
DIAL (CALENDAR): White enamel on copper, three feet. Four sub-dials; Time at the top, Regulation dial at the bottom, Day of Month to the right, and Date of Moon to left. Time dial with outer dot minute ring, radial Roman chapters. Day of Month dial with radial Arabic odd-numbers with dots between, between two circles. Regulation dial ladder scale numbered inside by radial Arabic numbers 5 to 30, in fives. Dial centre plain lettered 'TO' under '30' and 'REGULATE' in arc above '15'. Date of moon dial with odd numbers 1 to 29 1/2 with dots between, between two circles. Lettering 'WillM/W', 'PYBUS' and 'LONDON' in three lines in dial centre. Gold brushed hole for winding between Time and Moon dials, oblitering '1' of Moon dial.
HANDS: Time dial, gold, flat pierced diamond hour and poker minute. Day-of-month, gold, flat diamond. Date-of-moon, gold, flat diamond top with round counterbalance. Regulation, gold, arrow tip. Day-of-moon, gold, Breguet type.
CASE: Gilt metal with two chased bezels having ring of square red 'glass' (paste) stones set around dial. Every third stone is a deeper red than others, twenty-four deeper red stones.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dials
composed of
enamel
( white)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
brass (alloy)
Case
composed of
gilt metal
paste (red)
Diameter 62 mm
Height 74 mm
Thickness 36.5 mm
Width 62 mm
Hands
composed of
gold
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 44.5 mm
Movement (time Brass Edge)
Diameter 44.5 mm
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 45.25 mm
Movement (calendar Brass Edge)
Diameter 48.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 6.25 mm
Dial
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'WillM/W', 'PYBUS' and 'LONDON'
- Location: Calendar dial
- Type: Maker's name
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.64-1923
Primary reference Number: 207498
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Audit data
Created: Wednesday 6 January 2016
Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
