Joseph PENLINGTON, Liverpool. No 11237
Good keyless movement supplied by Nicole & Capt, circa 1865, from the Alan Treherne collection.
£35.00
Typical slim Nicole three-quarter plate caliper, the pillar-plate (without pillars) bearing Nicole’s usual twin serial numbers, 4094 and 4154. Single-roller detached lever escapement. Compensation balance, balance-spring with overcoil. Signed enamel dial with seconds at 9. blued-steel hand. 42 mm diameter, 7 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Joseph Penlington, St George’s Crescent North, one of the Liverpool’s premier watch and chronometer makers of the period and, along with Roskell, the earliest of Liverpool firms to retail the work of this important London wholesale watch manufacturer.
Nicole & Capt, later Nicole, Nielsen & Co were the foremost London watchmakers of the second half of the 19th century, supplying many of the finest watches to retailers such as Frodsham, Dent, Robert Roskell, and many others.
Dial cracked and chipped, lacking hands and with staff problems. Otherwise complete, even retaining its keyless bevel wheel and bar, but not working.
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Description
Typical slim Nicole three-quarter plate caliper, the pillar-plate (without pillars) bearing Nicole’s usual twin serial numbers, 4094 and 4154. Single-roller detached lever escapement. Compensation balance, balance-spring with overcoil. Signed enamel dial with seconds at 9. blued-steel hand. 42 mm diameter, 7 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Joseph Penlington, St George’s Crescent North, one of the Liverpool’s premier watch and chronometer makers of the period and, along with Roskell, the earliest of Liverpool firms to retail the work of this important London wholesale watch manufacturer.
Nicole & Capt, later Nicole, Nielsen & Co were the foremost London watchmakers of the second half of the 19th century, supplying many of the finest watches to retailers such as Frodsham, Dent, Robert Roskell, and many others.
Dial cracked and chipped, lacking hands and with staff problems. Otherwise complete, even retaining its keyless bevel wheel and bar, but not working.