Dutch silver verge with champlevé dial and date Circa 1725

Fine silver verge with date
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A fine Dutch silver pair cased verge watch with date, circa 1725. Fire gilt full plate verge movement, fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates, engraved silver balance bridge with mock pendulum and the words Caetera Linquo, decorative pillars. Silver champlevé dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, decorative gilt hands, arcaded chapter ring. Plain inner case, massive repoussé outer case with a scene to the back, bezel foliate chased and engraved. Dial signed, movement signed and numbered.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Weight: 140 g
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Signed: C’s Uyterweer Rotterdam
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This influential watchmaker has worked in Rotterdam for more than 50 years. Cornelis Uyterweer was Chief of the Guild many times, but even more important to mention is that he was the teacher of none other than Steven Hoogendijk.
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Cornelis Uyterweer (1702-1782) was born in Rotterdam and was baptized there as the son of a clockwork maker and possibly also a blacksmith Pieter Uyterweer (1674-1710) and Maria Swaenhill (1666-1737). He lived in the parental home in Westwagenstraat when he married Maria Magdalena van de Vijver (1707-1797) in Rotterdam on March 29, 1730, living in Botersloot. From this marriage, 6 children were born of which 4 probably died young. His son Pieter Uyterweer later worked as a watchmaker with his father. At the death of mother Magdalena, only Pieter and oldest daughter Maria were still alive.
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Cornelis Uyterweer was one of the leading Rotterdam makers of vest-pocket watches and probably lived in the Hoofdsteeg since 1732. The house in Westwagenstraat, corner of Halve Maenstraat, was inhabited in that year by the family of Bastiaen van den Donker (1705-1778) and Cornelija (Kornelia) van Heukelom (? -1763). Between 1749 and 1768, Uyterweer was the captain of the St. Eloys or blacksmith’s guild nine times, to which the watchmakers also belonged. His son, Pieter Uyterweer, was also chief captain four times between 1775 and 1780. From Cornelis Uyterweer vest pocket watches are preserved in the Dutch Gold, Silver and Clock Museum in Schoonhoven, the Historical Museum in Rotterdam, Museum of the Dutch Clock in Zaandam, Museum Het Princessehof in Leeuwarden, Guildhall in London, the Musée d ‘ horlogerie du Locle Château des Monts in Switzerland, Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Italy, and the Musée du Louvre in France.
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Cornelis Uyterweer died on May 18, 1782 and was buried on May 22 in the Great Church of Rotterdam.
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Reference 020000