Pocket Watch Or Pocket Watch In Niello Silver Decorated With A Straight Vertical Line With A Greek Frieze.

- Pocket watch or pocket watch in solid nielloed silver decorated with straight vertical lines and two Greek friezes and a rectangular shield with the interlaced initials PP engraved in hollow inside the shield. - French hallmark of title and swan import 800/1000 expressed in thousandths for watch cases coming from abroad in use in France from 1893 to 1970 present on the dust cover, border of the pocket watch case and on the front of the head of the pendant partially erased with the different letter P engraved in hollow located inside the swan hallmark of the office of guarantees of control of precious metals of Pontarlier in the department of Doubs (25). The swan hallmark could also have been affixed during a passage in the auction room by the office of guarantees of precious metals to be able to control the purity of the solid silver of the watch case. - French hallmark of a bigorne (insect) for importation on the bail. Hollow engraved logo hallmark present on the bowl and the dust cover of the manufacturer of the watch case with the letters HF for the Huguenin frères manufacture is the mention Niel for Niellé. The Huguenin frères manufacture founded in 1868 by two brothers Fritz (engraver) and Albert (guillocheur) is located in Switzerland in the canton of Neuchâtel in the city of Le Locle. - It is world-renowned for its quality manufacturing of pocket watch cases and made famous in particular for the process they developed for pocket watch cases in nielloed silver and having specialized in the field of pocket watch cases in nielloed silver. - The manufacture closed definitively in 2022 after filing for bankruptcy. Goldsmith's hallmark to be identified, probably Swiss, in an oval with the initials B&G and a bird with outstretched wings in the middle of the two letters present on the bowl and the dust cover. - Solid silver pocket watch case with niello, number 231 present on the edge of the bowl and edge of the pocket watch case and number 10231 on the dust cover engraved in hollow. - Copper-plated winding crown with a five-pointed star in relief in the center, slightly domed and beveled mineral glass. - White enamel dial, Arabic numeral for the 24 hours painted in red and black for the hours, railway graduation in black for the hours and minutes. - Stuart hands in gold-gilded steel for the hours and minutes. Small seconds dial at six o'clock with railway graduation painted in black for the seconds, second hand in burnished steel. - Movement in gilded brass set with rubies with anchor escapement, screws, crown wheel, ratchet, advance and retard index in polished steel and located above the balance. - Winding on the pendant and setting the time by pressing the small push button located at the top left next to the head of the pendant and turning the winder at the same time clockwise. - In perfect working order, serviced by a watchmaker. Art-nouveau period 4th quarter of the 19th century, circa 1890-1900. - Gross weight: 54.67 gr.

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