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Index No. A7629 Gold Minute Recording and Repeating Hunter
A late 19th Century Swiss minute repeater with sixty minute recording chronograph in a gold full hunter case.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, diamond endstone. Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Sixty minute recording flyback chronograph work situated under the dial. English table roller lever escapement.  Screwed in jewelling, escape and lever pivots with endstones.  Slide minute repeating on two polished steel gongs.  White enamel dial with subsidiaries for sixty minute recording and continuous seconds, flyback centre seconds chronograph.  Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  Substantial plain 18 carat full hunter case, gold slide and chronograph button in the band.  Number corresponding to that on the movement, gold cuvette
SignedW F McDonnell  - Central Chambers Liverpool
Circa 1890
Diameter 53 mm
In outstanding condition, a very fine example.  The ebauche appears to be from the firm of Audemas although it does not bear their mark.   An unusual feature of the design of the chronograph is that the minute recording hand is also adjusted if the time is set when the chronograph is running.
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