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Index No. A7908 Gold Independent Seconds Captains Watch
A 19th Century French independent seconds cylinder watch with two dials in a gold open face case.  Gilt three quarter plate keywind movement two suspended going barrels with polished steel Geneva stopwork. The smaller of the two barrels for the independent centre seconds train.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, plain three arm gilt steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel. Silver engine turned dial with subsidiaries for seconds and two time chapters, one with Roman numerals, the other Arabic numerals.  Independent centre seconds, fine blue steel hands. Very faded engine turned 18 carat open face case with ribbed middle, small slide in the band to operate the seconds train.  Wound and set through the signed gold cuvette.
SignedJh Allix au Havre  - Mtre D'Observation
Circa 1840
Diameter 55 mm
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