quarter-repeating watch
- Museum number
- 1888,1201.263
- Description
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GILT-BRASS AND SHAGREEN CASED VERGE WATCH WITH QUARTER-REPEAT.
Verge escapement.
Enamel dial.
Blued-steel beetle and poker hands.
Gilt-brass case covered with piqué fish-skin.
Train count
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Great wheel [fusee]..........48
Second wheel.................54...12
Third wheel..................48....6
Contrate wheel...............48....6
Crown wheel..................15....6
Hour wheel...................40
Minute wheel pinion..........10
Minute wheel.................36
Canon pinion.................12
Alarm great wheel............42
Second wheel.................35....7
Third wheel..................30....5
Fourth wheel.................25....5
Fifth wheel........................5
Regulation pinion............17 Regulation Sector............17
Set up ratchet...............20
- Production date
- 1730-1740
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 54.30 millimetres (case)
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Diameter: 40.60 millimetres (dial)
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Thickness: 33.40 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- It seems very unlikely that this watch had any connection with Dr. Samuel Johnson. The inscription, cut through the gilding, was probably added in the 19th century to add value and prestige to what is a very ordinary watch.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
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Latest: 4 (Jan 2019) case, movement 3. No signs of weeping.
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4 (2017) case
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5 (2016) case - no signs of weeping glass
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5 (2009) August (corrosion around the margins of the leather against the gilding probably caused by the glass).
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1 (Mar 1995).
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2 (1994) Hands and centre-square badly rusted.
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1888,1201.263
