| A rare late 19th Century Swiss centre seconds minute recording chronograph with power reserve indication in a silver niello full hunter case and fitted mahogany box. Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel
overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement, screwed in jewelling, escape and lever pivots with endstones. White enamel dial with flyback centre seconds, sector subsidiary for power reserve marked to 32 hours. The lower subsidiary for seconds combined concentrically with minute recording, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Substantial attractive silver niello full hunter case, both covers inlaid with gold. The front cover bearing a vacant shield shaped
cartouche and the back an engraved decorative floral display. Silver niello middle, gold button for the flyback chronograph, gilt winding button and bow. Fitted mahogany box, vacant bone rectangle on the top lid, lined with green velvet.
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