| A rare 19th Century Swiss lever with dual time dials, calendar, chronograph and jumping fifth seconds in a gold full hunter case. Gilt three quarter plate keywind movement with going barrel, the top plate shaped to reveal the train wheels. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue
steel arms and overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement, escape and lever pivots with endstones. White enamel dial with centre seconds hand stopped and started by a small slide in the band. Two chapters of Roman numerals and two smaller subsidiary seconds dials below. One of the seconds hands rotating once a minute, the other once a second and marked in fifths of a second. At the top a small chapter for date calendar, blue steel hands. Substantial engine turned
18 carat full hunter case with large applied gold monogram on the front cover. Wound and set though the signed gold cuvette which is also engraved with details of the watch.
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