These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Maker: Cox, James (Probably)
Verge watch and animated brooch set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds.
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement, time and animation, no name or number. Balance cock, plain pierced table, 6 pointed star, plain foot. Brass balance with 2 1/4 turn spring. Plain cock for regulation pinion with square, access through back of case. Blued steel set-up click, wheel and spring. Blued steel automation stop levers, projection through side of case. Rectangular fusee iron post. Mechanism train ends in depthing pinion with two bladed fan. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, cylindrical. Dial on nut which secures and pivots animated rosette. Fusee and chain, barrel with one lip, set-up click on top plate. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise. Animation train between plates and on, and under, bridged on pillar plate. Geneva stopwork on barrel arbour.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, gilt edge, two feet, counter enamel. Line minute ring, radial Arabic chapters, 4, 5, 7 and 8 read from outside. Fixing screw in place of 6 o'clock. Small white dial in centre of brooch of general oval shape. Rotating anulus around dial set with rubies and emeralds with seven smaller rotating discs set with diamonds. Each side with rotating discs with twelve points, set with ruby points and set diamonds in centre. These patterns make two seven pointed stars and a twelve pointed star. Three bezels set with diamonds. Body set with outer ring of rubies with diamonds and emeralds inside.
On pressing a small nib under the brooch sideways, the three stars revolve. The outside ones go clockwise, the inner one goes anti-clockwise, and the roses between the latter's points also go anti-clockwise. This motion is produced by a separately wound train.
HANDS: Gold, diamond shaped hour, plain minute pointer.
CASE: Cast brass, back covered with gold. Back with three holes, engraved 'W', 'M', 'F' and 'S', the last holes with rotating cover, all with arrows. Inside back scratched '3'. Back secured by twelve screws through side.
STORAGE BOX (A): Deep blue velvet covered rectangular box with two hinges and press catch, shaped brass corners on lid and base. Shaped brass plaque in centre of formed lid. Inside lid covered in silk, raised form with recess in base covered with velvet.
Bequeathed by Frank Gray Smart
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1913-06-05) by Smart, Frank Gray
18th Century
Circa
1750
-
1780
Box
composed of
silk
( inside lid)
brass (alloy)
velvet
Dial
composed of
enamel
( on copper)
gilt
copper
Hands, Case
composed of
gold
Movement
composed of
steel
Movement, Case
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (dial)
Diameter 11.75 mm
Movement (central Rosette)
Diameter 26 mm
Storage Box
Height 177 mm
Width 120 mm
Case
Height 45.25 mm
Thickness 23.75 mm
Width 75 mm
Sotrage Box
Thickness 58 mm
Accession number: M/P.103 & A-1913
Primary reference Number: 77464
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Watch" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77464 Accessed: 2024-11-22 06:55:47
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77464
|title=Watch
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 06:55:47|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-77464
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/MP_103A_1913.jpg"
alt="Watch"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Watch</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
