watch;
watch-case
- Museum number
- 1958,1201.2337
- Description
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SILVER AND TORTOISE-SHELL PAIR CASED VERGE WATCH.
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MOVEMENT FRAME:
Circular gilt-brass plates with four pierced Egyptian pillars. Riveted potence and riveted counter-potence. Engraved decoration around the verge aperture.
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MAINSPRING & SET-UP:
Gilt-brass barrel with snap-in cap and riveted steel hook. Tangent-screw set-up on the potence-plate, the silver index disc engraved 1-8, the index now missing.
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FUSEE & STOP-WORK:
Gilt-brass fusee for chain (now missing) and English stop-work.
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TRAIN:
Three wheel going-train, the second and contrate wheels with three crossings.
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ESCAPEMENT & BALANCE:
Verge escapement, the crown wheel replaced. Steel 2-arm balance. Screwed-on balance cock, pierced and engraved with foliate scrolls.
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DIAL & HAND:
Silver champlevé dial pinned directly to the pillar-plate. Roman hours I-XII on raised rectangular plaques arranged dancetté and lozenge shaped half-hour marks surrounding a quarter circle. Single blued-steel hand.
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CASES:
Plain silver inner case with hinged bezel, split and glazed. The rotating cover for the rear winding hole now missing. Silver pendant with loose ring.
Outer tortoise-shell covered brass case with silver rims and hinge. Silver piqué decoration around the band. The back has a central roundel with a landscape showing buildings and a tree, the design engraved and inlaid with silver wire. The front bezel rim is now missing.
- Production date
- 1671-1675
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 47.40 millimetres (inner case)
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Diameter: 54.10 millimetres (outer case)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The outer case is unlikely to be original. Stylistically it dates from about 1700 and it is a poor fit.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 4 (2017) some inactive rust, some verdigris 4 (1993) Rusting on stop iron and fusee.
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1201.2337
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.2337 (Ilbert Collection)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: Q131 (Ilbert Ledger)
