Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 75
Pennington London, No. 1300, hallmarked 1860.
CHF 5,000 - 6,000
Sold: CHF 4,830
Interesting silver deck-watch in original mahogany deck box and with a rate certificate from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, dated 6 ApriIl918. Three body engine-turned with fixed dome. White enamel dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds (hair lines). GiIt brass full plate movement with cylindrical pillars secured by screws, fusee with maintaining power, single roller lateral lever escapement, two armed cut bimetallic compensation balance with poising and timing screws, diamond endstone, now set with a free sprung paladium balance spring with terminal curve. Diam. 55 mm.
Notes
Still in used during the First World War, as attested by
the Observatory certificate, the balance spring of this
watch has been changed and the regulator removed in
order to improve the rate with a free sprung palladium
balance spring.
An identical watch , No. 1309, hallmarked 1861, with
the same improvement was sold by Sotheby's on 14
June 1979, lot 208