"Solid Silver Guilloché Pocket Watch Or Watch With Leaf And Flower Decoration."
- Pocket or pocket watch in solid silver, chased and guilloché, bowl decorated with foliage plated with green gold, flowers plated with rose gold, scrolls and shield blank with initial plated with rose gold.- French crab title hallmark 800/1000 in use in France from 1834 to 1984 present on the head of the pendant, the bail, bowl, dust cover and edge of the case of the pocket watch and the different from the precious metals control guarantee office of Besançon in the department of Doubs (25).- Diamond-shaped goldsmith's hallmark on the bowl to be identified with the letter S and a partially erased rooster inside the diamond-shaped hallmark, number 15922 and the number 3 on the bowl and the dust cover engraved in hollow.- Smooth octagonal edge of the watch and the perimeter of the Guilloché and chiseled pocket watch bezel, copper crown winder, slightly domed mineral glass.- White enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes painted in black, gold-colored index graduation for the hours and minutes, Louis XV hands in gilded metal.- Small seconds dial at six o'clock, railway graduation for the seconds painted in black and second hand in gilded metal.- Gilded brass movement set with rubies with cylinder escapement, blued steel screws, ratchet, crown wheel, advance and retard racket in polished steel and located above the balance wheel.- Winding on the pendant and setting the time by pressing the small push button located to the left of the pendant head while turning the winding crown clockwise at the same time.- In perfect working order, serviced by a watchmaker.- Period late 19th century circa 1880-1900.- Weight gross: 54.70 gr.