alarm watch;
coach watch;
watch-case
- Museum number
- 1958,1201.2314
- Description
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Gilt-brass cased verge coach watch with alarm [ case not original].
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Movement
Circular gilt-brass plates with four baluster pillars. Gilt-brass barrel with tangent-screw set-up beneath the front-plate. Fusee with chain and standard stop-work, the chain now replaced with a thick gut line. Four-wheel going train of gilt-brass wheels terminating with a verge escapement. Steel 3-arm balance with spiral balance spring and Barrow regulator. Pierced and engraved foliate balance-cock.
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Alarm train driven by a fixed gilt-brass barrel with engraved decoration on the visible side and with geared stop-work under the dial.
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Dial and hand
Gilt-brass dial-plate with a gold champlevé dial. Roman hours I-XII surrounding a circle for quarters. Silver alarm-setting disc numbered 1-11 with a steel pointer at 12 to indicate the time. Alarm-setting hand not original.
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Case
Gilt brass pierced and engraved with realistic flowers but not executed in a 17th century style, the case appears to be a modern copy of a 1650-1680 original. 17th century bell taken from another watch.
- Production date
- 1680-1690
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 93 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G2/wp40)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 Oct 14 - London, BM, G2, 'Collecting the World'
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1201.2314
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.1500 (Ilbert Collection)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.2314 (Ilbert Collection)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: N118 (Ilbert Ledger)
