SCHWOB FRÈRES & CO.
Small pocket watch, minute repeater, made for the Chinese market; 18K yellow gold and enamel

18K yellow gold and enamel, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, small pocket watch, made for the Chinese market, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and one horological complication:

· Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 6 o’clock)

Cover and case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with a motif representing a tree branch on which is perched an exotic multicoloured bird painted in translucent polychrome champlevé enamel.

Egg-shell colour enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, inside gold pailloné cartouches; gilded metal “Fleur-de-Lys” hands.

Movement 14’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, gold screwed-chaton (setting) on the central wheel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.

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