Robert Pennington, London

• Movement: gilded full plate, duplex escapement, gold escape wheel, balance cock mounted with regulator and index, Pennington’s bi-metallic ‘double-L’ type balance, diamond endstone, two steel hammers dumb quarter repeating on blocks mounted to the inside case back, fusee and chain, ribbed cylindrical pillars, signed Pennington, London
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, gold spade hands, subsidiary seconds with blued steel hand
• Case: inner case plain polished, the back with with crest above commemorative engraving ‘Francisco Salazar, Madrid, 1784’, plain polished outer case, long plunge pendant, inner case back, outer case back and bezel all hallmarked 1812 and with incuse maker’s mark IN for John Nevill

Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, 2009, p. 350, pl. 224

Movement running at time of cataloguing and appears to be in good clean condition. Dial in attractive condition, there is a light scratch between the centre and 4 o'clock. Inner case in good condition. The outer case also in good condition. Pendant appears a stronger pink in tone than the cases.
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This very fine watch has a number of features that are characteristic of Pennington’s work, the ‘double-L’ balance being especially notable (see lot 58 for a note on this balance
type). The cock mounted regulator is an early example of its type in an English watch; the cock table has a cut out for the curb pins.

Amongst the watch papers inside the case back is a Pennington paper which reads: “Pennington Chronometer Maker, corner of Orchard Row, Camberwell, London, Clocks
and Watches of All Kinds.”

For a note on Robert Pennington see lot 54.