| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Mermod Freres, Sainte-Croix
Year Circa 1900
Case No. 71 979
Material 14K pink gold
Caliber 19’’’, gilded brass, straight-line lever escapement, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve
Dimensions Ø 55.3 mm
Signature Case (trademark)
Notes
The company name is registered in 1881, as makers of watches and music boxes in Sainte-Croix (Vaud); Sainte-Croix was and is the centre of the music box industry. The company won a Third Class medal for finished watches at the National Exhibition in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1881. They manufactured entirely by improved machinery their music boxes. The company registered the trademark “Mira” for music boxes in 1902. The company is also listed for compli- cated watches, repeaters and chronometers. It still exists in 1925 for horology and “talking machines”. In 1926, the name of the company became “William Mermod”.