No.52
Watch in gilt metal and underpainted horn case. Thirty hour duration, single train, gilt brass, four pillar fusee movement with verge escapement. Steel balance with blued-steel, flat spiral balance spring. Pierced and engraved balance cock with grotesque mask. Tompion style regulator with silver regulating disk engraved with the Arabic numerals 5-30. Engraved on the potence plate with the words 'Mary Bradley', 'N 52' and 'London'. Convex white enamel dial with Arabic hour numerals, star quarter marks and dot minute marks. Gold spade and poker hands. Gilt metal pair case. The outer case covered with underpainted horn. The case back is decorated with a depiction of 'Hope' standing on the shore along with an anchor, a ship and a castle. The bezel underpainted with a leaf and flower motif. Brass pinwork. Stepped gilt metal pendant and stirrup bow. Scratched inside inner case back with the word 'Green', along with further illegible marks. Convex bullseye glass over dial. Three, now-unused holes in the potence plate suggest something has been fitted over the signature on the movement.
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Object Details
ID: | JEW0267 |
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Collection: | Decorative art |
Type: | Watch |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Mary Bradley |
Date made: | circa 1790-1795 |
People: | Mary Bradley; Hope, George Johnstone |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 69 x 47 x 23 mm |