Maker: Martin, John (watchmaker)
Verge movement
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'I MARTIN 391 LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table with ears, mask at nect, foot pierced and engraved with border. Brass balance. Slide plate pierced and engraved with wavy edge, silver regulation dial with radial Arabic figures 1 to 6. Fusee iron post pierced. Case bolt with flat decorated foot, nib through dial. Potance and counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four square section baluster pillars, shallow centre wheel recess (replaced joint). Fusee and chain, click set-up under dial, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Three feet, engraved outside dial recess.
DIAL: Silver champleve, three feet. Outer 5 minute cushions with radial Arabic figures, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, inner ring, central hole with disc behind. Disc with plaques above and below engraved 'MARTIN' and 'LONDON'. The quality of engraving on the disc is not up to the standard of the rest of the dial.
HANDS: Blued steel, beetle and poker.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1720
Movement
composed of
iron
Thickness 22 mm
Dial
composed of
enamel
Movement, Dial
composed of
silver
Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 34.25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 36 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 38 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 22 mm
Accession number: PW.69-1923
Primary reference Number: 207503
No.: 391
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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