| A late 19th Century Swiss pocket chronometer with rare spherical hairspring complete with alternative Turkish dial and rosewood presentation case. Keywind gilt bar movement with reverse fusee and chain. Polished steel dust protectors to the winding and set squares. Pivoted detent
chronometer escapement. Plain cock with polished steel regulator. Compensation balance with blue steel spherical hairspring. Screwed in jewelling, escape and detent pivots with endstones. Signed white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, decorative gold and enamel hands, each set with a stone. Substantial crisp engine turned 18 carat full hunter case. Wound and set through the gold cuvette engraved "Chronometer".
Alternative dial with Turkish numerals kept in the fine brass bound and strung rosewood presentation case.
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