watch
- Museum number
- 1958,1201.1535
- Description
-
MOVEMENT AND DIAL OF A CYLINDER WATCH.
.
Full-plate, fusee; Harrison's maintaining power.
Cylinder escapement; steel wheel, steel cylinder; gilt-brass balance.
White enamel dial, hours I-XII, subsidiary seconds 10-60; numbered.
Gold hour hand, minute hand broken and missing, blued-steel seconds hand with gold boss.
Gilt-brass dust-cap, signed and numbered.
case missing.
- Production date
- 1816
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 44.70 millimetres (dial)
-
Diameter: 42.70 millimetres (dust cap)
-
Thickness: 15.30 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
-
-
- Curator's comments
- Barwise London 6860 hallmarked London 1815 [Sotheby's 26/7/71 lot45]
Barwise London 7007 hallmarked London 1816 [Christie's 23/6/64 lot21]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
-
Latest: 4 (2016)
-
3 (1994)
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- Following the successful acquisition of the celebrated Ilbert collection of clocks (1958,1006 collection), prints and other related materials made possible by the generous donation of funds by Gilbert Edgar CBE Ilbert's watches were then acquired using funds provided by Gilbert Edgar, public donations and government funds.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1201.1535
- Additional IDs
-
Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.1535 (Ilbert Collection)
-
Previous owner/ex-collection number: M260 (Ilbert Ledger)