| A good 19th Century Swiss lever in a gold full hunter case. Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel, frosted steel wolfs teeth winding work. Plain cock with polished steel regulator. Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement, escape pivots with
endstone in a polished steel setting. White enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Plain 18 carat full hunter case, dedication engraved inside the front cover, " To J S Hodgson from his wife, children, grand-children an great-grand-children on the anniversary of his 50th Wedding Day 1881". Signed gold cuvette engraved "Chronometre - Eschappement a Ancre - balancier Compense - spiral Breguet, Vingt Rubis".
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