Context (Display)
This object was found in association with a wooden display board. A handwritten label affixed to the front of the board reads: 'WATCH WITH BRASS-GILT AND TORTOISE-SHELL CASE. MADE BY T. WILLIAMS, LONDON. c.1787 d.d. BARONESS VON HÜGEL'. A handwritten label affixed to the back of the board reads: 'Watch in pinchbeck Brass Gilt. and tortoise-shell case by T. Williams, London, c. 1787. *The Camb. Ant. Society. [A.1902.14.]'. A second handwritten label affixed to the back of the board reads: '1902.14 Watch. Icworth [sic] S. *cas 1902'. Also written on the back of the board in pencil: 'Watch made by T. Williams London of abt. 1787. case of the [illegible] -beck" metal + tortoise shell'.
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Accession register entry: 'a plain brass watch with white china face in an outer cover of figured tortoise shell studded with tortoise gold. "T. Williams London 7754".
Event Date 1902
Author: David Kay

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found in a cardboard box of six watches/watch parts and cases (1883.750, 1902.14.1, 1906.286.1-3, 1906.287.1-2, 1915.167.1-2, TEMP.00865), plus the display board for 1906.133 (object missing).
Event Date 2019
Author: David Kay

Context (Amendments / updates)
N.b. only 1902.14.1 (the internal case and movement) was found in Box 3514 when updating this record. 1902.14.2 (the outer case made of tortoise-shell) remains missing.
Event Date 26/3/2019
Author: David Kay

Context (Amendments / updates)
Although this object appears to have been collected in Ickworth ('Icworth' on the label/accession register entry), the watch was originally made in London. As such, the Place field has been filled as 'Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Ickworth | Europe; British Isles; England; London'.

Also, although the accession entry register and one label give the donor as the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, another label lists Baroness von Hügel as having donated the object. Further to clarifying this, the Source field has hence been here filled as 'von Hügel, Anatole (Baroness) [donor]; Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]'.
Event Date 26/3/2019
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Pocket watch, comprising an internal plain brass case with inbuilt verge fusee mechanism and ceramic face (1), and a tortoise-shell outer case (2 - now missing). The back of the case has a small hole for the insertion of a winder key, is stamped with a 'WP' hallmark on the inside, has a protruding crown and penannular suspension loop, and both the internal mechanism and front bevel are hinged at the top of the case below the crown. The face is of white china, with the hours from 1-12, and additional numbers at the quarter marks for 15, 30, 45 and 60. There are two steel hands, the longer for the minutes and the shorter for the hours. The movement is of a rear-wound verge fusee type, and its back is part decorated with elaborate scrolled/foliate motifs in chased pinchbeck brass. There is a separate wheel marked 1-6 for adjusting the speed, and the movement is inscribed 'T Williams LONDON ' and '7754'.
Event Date 26/3/2019
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Pocket watch, comprising an internal plain brass case with inbuilt verge fusee mechanism and ceramic face.
Event Date 9/6/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad