Silver Pocket Watch From The Prestigious Italian Watchmaking Company Hausmann&co.

- Solid silver pocket or fob watch from the Hausmann&Co brand. The Hausmann & Co watchmaking company is one of the most prestigious Italian watchmaking houses. It was founded in Rome in 1794 within the Ricci watchmaking factory. - In 1820, it opened its first historic office in Piazza Colonna. Ernst Hausmann, a German watchmaker, joined the company in 1870, then bought the Ricci company in 1881. The company temporarily moved to via Bocca di Leone, before settling permanently in via del Corso in 1890, where it is still located today. - The company took the name Hausmann & Co in 1895, when a talented engineer, also German, Hermann Frielingsdorf, joined Hausmann. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the company has collaborated with major Swiss watchmaking houses. - During the 20th century, it opened several boutiques in Naples and Genoa. At that time, it was the official distributor of Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin in Rome, and also produced watches under its own brand.- Watchmaker to the Italian Navy, it installed numerous precision chronometers on Italian Navy ships, capable of maintaining accurate time independently of external radio signals.- Since 2001, Benedetto Mauro and Francesco Hausmann have headed the Hausmann & Co. group. Today, the group is the official distributor of products from the most prestigious and exclusive brands that have marked the history of watchmaking, including Rolex, Cartier, IWC, Jaeger-le-Coultre and many others.- Watch case made in Switzerland with the letters FP for Optima SA/Albert Grossenbacher/F.Peter watch factory and the letter B for the city of Bienne in Switzerland engraved in relief on the cuvette and the dust cover. - Swiss rectangular title hallmark with the numbers 0.935 engraved in hollow inside the rectangular hallmark expressed in thousandths 935/1000 for the purity of solid silver in use in Switzerland present on the bowl and the dust cover. - Swiss standing bear hallmark 935/1000 expressed in thousandths in use in Switzerland from 1882 to 1934 present on the front of the pendant head, bowl, dust cover and edge of the pocket watch case with the different letter I engraved in hollow located inside the standing bear hallmark between the lower and upper legs of the standing bear of the office of guarantees of control of precious metals of the city of Saint-Imier in French Switzerland. - White enamel dial signed Hausmann&Co, Roman numerals for the hours, railway graduation for the minutes painted in black. - Stuart pear hand in blued steel for the hours and minutes. - Small seconds dial at six o'clock, Arabic numerals for the seconds, black painted railway graduation for the seconds and blued steel second hand. - Cuvette, edge of the watch and bezel rim of the smooth pocket watch.- Crown winder in solid silver and a five-pointed star and a half-moon on the top of the crown winder in a rounded, slightly domed and beveled mineral glass.- Gilt brass movement set with rubies with anchor escapement, screws, crown wheel, ratchet, ratchet pawl, advance and retard index in polished steel located above the balance wheel. - Pendant winding and time setting by pulling the top of the winder crown and turning the crown winder at the same time clockwise.- In perfect working order, serviced by a watchmaker. - Period 1st quarter of the 20th century circa 1900-1920. Gross weight: 86.43 gr.

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