watch;
watch-case
- Museum number
- 1874,0718.50
- Description
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GILT-BRASS AND SILVER CASED VERGE WATCH.
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Frame: Circular gilt-brass plates with four baluster pillars. The potence plate with engraved concentric rings. There is a separate bridge on the pillar-plate set almost centrally for the second wheel and third pinion.
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Mainspring & Set-Up: Gilt-brass barrel with a dovetailed cap and a riveted steel hook in the barrel wall. The barrel wall shows damage caused by a chain which is no longer present. Finely made ratchet and click set-up mounted on the outside of the potence-plate, the gilt-brass click pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage and a grotesque bird's head.
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Fusee & Stop-Work: The gilt-brass/copper fusee appears to be a later replacement designed for use with a gut line. The watch appears to have had a chain but this may have been a replacement for an earlier gut-line system. English stop-work, the block with a foliate foot and the blued-steel spring and screw decoratively finished.
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Train: Four-wheel train of gilt-brass wheels, each with three crossings, the second wheel set almost centrally and running with the third wheel pinion in a recess in the pillar-plate with a separate bridge.
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Escapement: Verge escapement, the crown wheel runs between a riveted potence and screwed-on counter-potence. Verge and balance replaced. Finely pierced and engraved balance-cock pinned to a stud on the potence-plate.
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DIAL
Plain gilt-brass dial. Applied silver chapter ring with Roman hours I-XII, lozenge and dot half-hour marks and an inner circle for quarters. Single blued-steel hand.
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CASE
Circular gilt-brass case with hinged back and lid, each with a rim engraved with hatched decoration
The applied silver band is engraved with a wheat-ear design. Beneath the turned pendant with loose ring is a gilt-brass hinge block and beneath the turned finial is a gilt-brass rosette. The pendant possibly not original.
- Production date
- 1630-1635
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 35 millimetres (case)
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Thickness: 19.50 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The gilding on all the parts of this watch appears to be fairly new, i.e. 19th century.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1874,0718.50