Jos’h PENLINGTON & Co, Liverpool. No 13270
Good free-sprung movement with Keys ‘rocking-bar’ keyless work, circa 1880, from the Alan Treherne collection.
£45.00
Three-quarter plate going-barrel movement jewelled to the 3rd, the hollow-back pillar-plate stamped D.KEYS. Single-roller detached lever escapement. Compensation balance with quarter-timing nuts, paired with a bright metal free-sprung balance-spring. Signed enamel dial, blued-steel hands. 45 mm diameter, 8.5 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Joseph Penlington, St George’s Crescent North, one of Liverpool’s premier watch and chronometer making firms of the period.
Lacking seconds hand, dial with hair cracks and balance staff pivot broken. Otherwise an interesting example of this famous maker’s output. Not working.
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Description
Three-quarter plate going-barrel movement jewelled to the 3rd, the hollow-back pillar-plate stamped D.KEYS. Single-roller detached lever escapement. Compensation balance with quarter-timing nuts, paired with a bright metal free-sprung balance-spring. Signed enamel dial, blued-steel hands. 45 mm diameter, 8.5 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Joseph Penlington, St George’s Crescent North, one of Liverpool’s premier watch and chronometer making firms of the period.
Lacking seconds hand, dial with hair cracks and balance staff pivot broken. Otherwise an interesting example of this famous maker’s output. Not working.