{"title":"Hunter","description":"Full hunter pocket watches, with a hinged metal cover that springs open to protect the crystal and dial. Engraved and plain cases across the makers and decades we handle, each checked and catalogued before listing.","products":[{"product_id":"elgin-1903-gold-filled-full-hunter-pocket-watch-17-jewel-signed-enamel-dial","title":"Full Hunter in a Keystone J. Boss Gold-Filled Case, 1903","description":"\u003cp\u003eA running 1903 Elgin full hunter with a flawless signed enamel dial, cased in Keystone's J.Boss gold-filled. Honest, correct and ready to carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a genuine Elgin pocket watch made in 1903 at the company's factory in Elgin, Illinois. The movement is a 16-size Grade 241 running on 17 jewels, with nickel damascened plates, a safety pinion and a fast\/slow regulator. Elgin was one of the largest and most respected American watchmakers of the period, and a named Elgin movement like this one sits a clear step above the generic unsigned watches of the same era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is a Keystone Watch Case Co. 'J.Boss' full hunter, gold-filled and guaranteed for 20 years when new. The engine-turned back is still crisp, with a plain central cartouche that was never engraved. To be clear, this is a gold-filled case (rolled gold plate over brass), not solid gold, which is entirely normal for a quality watch of this type. The hunter lid springs open cleanly and snaps shut tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial is signed Elgin and is in excellent condition, with no chips or hairlines. It carries bold Roman numerals and a sub-seconds register at six, with blued spade hands. At 50.2mm across the case it has real presence in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanically it is honest and working: it winds smoothly, sets cleanly by pulling the crown, and runs well. The only cosmetic note is light surface scratching to the crystal, which is an inexpensive part to replace if you prefer a clear view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA well-preserved, running example of a turn-of-the-century American hunter, correctly identified and ready to carry or display.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elgin National Watch Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239672336723,"sku":"PW-0072","price":285.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/elgin-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-c1903-front.jpg?v=1783547230"},{"product_id":"unsigned-swiss-gold-filled-full-hunter-pocket-watch-gilt-movement-sub-seconds-c-1895","title":"Gold-Filled Full Hunter, White Enamel Dial, c.1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eA well-preserved Swiss full hunter, c.1895-1910. Gold-filled case, white enamel dial, running well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn anonymous Swiss full hunter pocket watch from around the turn of the twentieth century, housed in a quality gold-filled case - stamped GARANTI 10 ANS, with a 25-micron gold layer - carrying the hallmarks of a serious export piece made to last. The inner cuvette is decorated with a beautiful engine-turned guilloche pattern, a detail usually reserved for better-grade watches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial presents Arabic numerals with a sub-seconds register at six o'clock and a pair of slender gilt hands. There are hairline cracks in the enamel consistent with the watch's age - honest patina rather than damage. The case exterior carries light surface scratches and polishes well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, a gilt 3\/4 plate lever movement with a decorative balance cock. Winds smoothly, sets cleanly, and runs with good accuracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsigned (Swiss)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239741739347,"sku":"PW-0006","price":450.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/unsigned-swiss-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-c1895-front.jpg?v=1783550515"},{"product_id":"wwf-panda-pocket-watch-full-hunter-chrome-case-17-jewel-german-movement-c-1980s","title":"WWF Panda Commemorative Full Hunter, Seventeen Jewels, c.1985","description":"\u003cp\u003eA working piece of conservation history - the WWF's iconic panda on a proper German mechanical full-hunter, with a 17-jewel movement you can watch through the display caseback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a WWF World Wildlife Fund commemorative pocket watch from Germany's watchmaking industry, produced during the 1980s-1990s when the charity actively commissioned branded merchandise for donor and fundraising use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe full hunter chrome case springs open to reveal a clean white dial bearing the WWF panda logo, Arabic numerals, and the reassuring inscription: 17 RUBIS, SHOCKPROOF, MADE IN GERMANY. Turn it over and the display caseback shows you the movement itself - a 17-jewel manual-wind calibre, ticking away cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era of disposable promotional items, this was made to a proper standard. The movement winds and sets correctly, runs well, and the case shows minimal wear despite its age. A characterful and directly purposeful piece: every one of these was sold or gifted to support wildlife conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppealing to WWF collectors, natural history enthusiasts, and anyone who wants a functioning mechanical pocket watch with a genuine story behind it. No box or papers. A ready-to-carry collectible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WWF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239812649299,"sku":"PW-0017","price":150.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/wwf-chrome-pocket-watch-c1980-front.jpg?v=1783553865"},{"product_id":"swiss-full-hunter-pocket-watch-blue-sunburst-enamel-dial-belle-epoque-baldomero-marin-c-1900","title":"Twelve Blue Sunburst Enamel Medallions, c.1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eA striking Belle Époque dial: twelve individual blue sunburst enamel medallions frame each Arabic numeral on the white enamel face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve individual blue sunburst enamel medallions encircle the white enamel face, one radiating behind each Arabic numeral - a decorative technique fashionable in Belle Époque Switzerland around 1900, when the great export manufacturers competed for the attention of a style-conscious European clientele.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial carries the signature of Baldomero Marín of Villena, a jeweller from the Alicante region of Spain who imported quality Swiss movements and had them signed to his name - a standard practice in the export trade of the period. The piece pairs the dramatic dial with a three-body full hunter case, ornate floral engraving on the back, and a gilt movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat movement is announced on the inner lid: Echappement Perfectionné \/ Marche Garantie, flanked by five exhibition medal stamps - the manufacturer's way of advertising their prizes from the great horological expositions of the age. The lever escapement runs well with a satisfying tick, and the push-piece setting mechanism is a quality feature found on better Swiss movements of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is Metalor VAR Déposé - a registered gilded brass alloy from Metalor, the Le Locle precious metals firm established in 1852. Not gold, but presenting beautifully as gold, with bold floral engraving on the back that remains crisp after 125 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinor chips to the white enamel dial background - honest age wear. All twelve blue chapter rings are intact. The crystal is clear. Running well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rare and visually distinctive example of decorative Swiss export watchmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsigned (Swiss) \/ Baldomero Marín, Villena (retailer)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239813992787,"sku":"PW-0021","price":400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/baldomero-marin-gold-plated-pocket-watch-c1900-front.jpg?v=1783554307"},{"product_id":"bataille-aine-a-besancon-18k-gold-quarter-repeating-pocket-watch-c-1850-1865","title":"18ct Gold Quarter-Repeater, a Maker Held at Greenwich, c.1850","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fully functioning quarter-repeater in 18k gold, signed by its maker on the dust cover, a maker whose work is held in the Royal Museums Greenwich collection. One of the most demanding complications of the 19th century, in a case that rewards close examination.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1849 and 1851, Besançon's output of watches grew from ten thousand a year to more than a hundred thousand. This watch was made in the middle of that boom, and it was made to stand above it: an 18k gold full hunter of 49.6mm that strikes the time on demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePull the gold pendant push-piece, give it a quarter turn, and the watch counts the hours and then the quarters on two gongs, clearly and correctly. A quarter repeater asked more of a nineteenth-century workshop than almost anything else: the striking train has to read the position of the hands at any moment and translate it instantly into the right count, every time. Surviving examples that still strike properly are the exception; this one has been tested and does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case opens in three stages, each with its own click: the front lid over the dial, the back cover, and the cuvette over the movement. The dial is white enamel with slim black Roman numerals and a bar minute track, under gold hands in the scrolled Louis XV style. The enamel is complete, with no chips or losses; under raking light a few fine hairlines show around eleven and twelve, the honest surface of enamel fired a century and a half ago. The caseback carries a deeply engraved heraldic cartouche in foliate scrollwork, the bezel a rope-pattern guilloché border, and the ornate floral bow and pendant are original and intact. At 68.7 grams it is a substantial thing to hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBataille aîné made the movement himself, in his own Besançon factory, and signed it as a maker rather than a retailer; the standing of the name, and the museum record behind it, are set out in the panels below. What the movement shows in the hand is the ambition: hand-shaped bridges and blued steel screws, provincial France working to Paris standards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds and sets on its key, runs, and strikes. It is presented in its original purple velvet and cream silk box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the maker's record is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bataille Aîné à Besançon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239830835539,"sku":"PW-0030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/solid-gold-pocket-watch-french-repeater-amsterdam-netherlands31-front_hero.jpg?v=1785273333"},{"product_id":"halcon-gold-plated-full-hunter-pocket-watch-17-jewels-incabloc-albert-chain-c-1960s-70s","title":"Gold-Plated Full Hunter with its Original Albert Chain, c.1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eA complete Swiss full hunter from the 1960s - running well, clean dial, and dressed with its original gold-tone Albert chain. Ready to wear or display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalcon was a Spanish watch house from Badajoz (Extremadura) that assembled quality Swiss movements into their own cases for the Spanish market during the 1960s and 1970s. The movement inside is almost certainly the Unitas 6431\/6445 - a reliable 17-jewel manual wind calibre with Incabloc shock protection, a proven workhorse of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gold-plated full hunter case measures 50mm and presents well, with engine-turned texture to both covers and a decorative engraved cartouche on the inner caseback. The white lacquer dial is clean and unmarked, with bold Arabic numerals and a sub-seconds register at 6 o'clock. The movement winds smoothly and the crown pulls up cleanly to set the time. Running well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupplied with a matching gold-tone Albert chain - a complete, ready-to-use set at an accessible price point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Halcon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239893553491,"sku":"PW-0035","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/halcon-gold-plated-pocket-watch-c1960-front.jpg?v=1783557640"},{"product_id":"elgin-gold-filled-full-hunter-grade-395-1912","title":"Gold-Filled Full Hunter, Fifteen-Jewel Movement, 1912","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1912 Elgin full hunter in a gold filled case, pristine dial, and a movement that winds and runs cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a 1912 Elgin National Watch Co. pocket watch in a full hunter case, meaning both the dial and the movement are protected by spring hinged covers, and both snap open cleanly on this piece. Elgin was the largest watch manufacturer in the United States during the pocket watch era, and this example carries their Grade 395, Model 2 movement, a comparatively scarce grade with only 21,000 examples produced across its full run, well below the hundreds of thousands typical of Elgin's more common calibres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 15 jewel gilt movement is signed and numbered (16532709), winds smoothly, and runs consistently. The white enamel dial is pristine, with black Arabic numerals, a sub-seconds register at six o'clock, and ornate gold filigree hour and minute hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is gold filled, made by J. Boss for the Keystone Watch Case Co. and stamped with their 20 year guarantee mark. Both covers carry a fine engine-turned finish, the front cartouche is left blank and unengraved, and the hinges on both covers spring open cleanly. At 52.7mm, it has real presence in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition is graded Very Good: the dial is flawless, the case shows only light wear consistent with its age, and the crystal has some light surface scratches. Everything winds, sets, and runs as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine, ready to wear piece of early 20th century American watchmaking, and a scarcer Elgin grade than most full hunters you'll come across.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elgin National Watch Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248095187283,"sku":"PW-0061","price":360.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/elgin-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-1912-front.jpg?v=1783616088"},{"product_id":"waltham-gold-filled-full-hunter-bond-st-grade-1903","title":"Bond St. Movement in an English Dennison Moon Case, 1903","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn American Waltham movement, cased in England in a genuine Dennison gold-filled hunter, made specifically for the export market in 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a Waltham Bond St. grade pocket watch, dated to 1903 from its movement serial number (12900388, Model 1897, size 14s). Bond St. was Waltham's grade made specifically for the British market, named after the London street where Waltham's UK sales office sat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case tells the same story. It's a genuine gold-filled full hunter made by the Dennison Watch Case Company, Waltham's principal English case supplier - the interior is stamped with Dennison's Star trademark (a 10-year gold-filled guarantee) alongside the American Waltham Watch Company name, plus a case serial (116342) and duty mark (7F). The front cover carries a blank cartouche shield, engine-turned, with no monogram, so it's ready for a new owner without any prior engraving to work around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 50mm across, this is a substantial, wearable size. The dial is white enamel with a red-and-black two-tone railway minute track and a sub-seconds register at 6 o'clock, signed A.W.W.Co. Waltham Mass. There's a small dial-edge dent between 11 and 12, mostly hidden under the case lip, but otherwise the enamel is clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanically, the watch winds smoothly, sets correctly, and runs. It hasn't been sent for a professional service or timed for accuracy, so it's sold as a running example rather than a guaranteed-rate piece. Both hunter covers - front and back - open with a clean spring action and close securely, and the case back reveals the movement and a stamped dust cover underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo box or papers accompany this piece. Acquired from a private collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA straightforward, honestly described Waltham export watch with a real, checkable story behind the case and the grade - not just a generic gold-filled hunter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waltham (American Waltham Watch Co.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248116584787,"sku":"PW-0062","price":340.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/waltham-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-1903-front.jpg?v=1783616352"},{"product_id":"orta-gold-filled-full-hunter-illinois-watch-case-co-c-1915-1920s","title":"Full Hunter Cased by the Illinois Watch Case Co., c.1918","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Swiss Orta movement cased by the American Illinois Watch Case Co., in a gold-filled full hunter with an engine-turned back and ornate fancy hands. Fully working, 52mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a Swiss-made Orta pocket watch, cased in gold-filled metal by the Illinois Watch Case Co. of Elgin, Illinois, dating to around 1915-1920. Orta was one of the anchor-movement lines produced by the Societe d'Horlogerie La Generale (General Watch Co.) of La Chaux-de-Fonds, the same maker behind the better-known Helvetia brand. It's a documented pairing: a traceable Swiss movement fitted into a case from a well-established American case manufacturer, a common but genuinely interesting practice of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is a full hunter, 52mm, with an engine-turned (guilloche) sunburst pattern on both the outer back and inner dust cover, and the interior is stamped \"Illinois Watch Case Co, Elgin, U.S.A. - This case guaranteed to wear 10 years\", case serial 3141275. The white enamel dial carries Arabic numerals and a sub-seconds register at 6 o'clock, fitted with unusually ornate gold-tone hands: a filigree spade hour hand and a pierced scroll minute hand, a decorative touch not typically seen on watches of this grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition is honest and functional: the watch winds, sets via a pull-out crown, and runs and keeps time. There's a tiny chip on the outer case and a small hairline near the dial's centre pinion, plus a barely-noticeable wobble in the crown stem, none of which affect function. The crystal is clean with no chips, cracks, or scratches, and both the case back and inner dust cover open and close securely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo box or papers accompany the watch. A solid, wearable piece of early 20th-century Swiss-American watchmaking with a documented maker story and a distinctive decorative detail most similar watches lack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orta (movement); case by Illinois Watch Case Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248129757523,"sku":"PW-0063","price":340.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/orta-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-c1915-front.jpg?v=1783616603"},{"product_id":"antoine-amp-fils-gold-plated-full-hunter-17-jewel-swiss-c-1930s-1950s","title":"Rolled Gold Full Hunter, Swiss Made, c.1930s-1950s","description":"\u003cp\u003e49.4mm rolled gold full hunter, signed dial, 17-jewel Swiss lever movement running well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a full hunter pocket watch signed Antoine \u0026amp; Fils on the dial, in a rolled gold case (Plaqué Or, stamped 10 microns) over a base metal core. The case is a substantial 49.4mm, noticeably larger than the standard ~45mm hunter case, with the \"PLAQUÉ OR 10\" mark and a small maker's roundel stamped on both the hinge and the case back exterior. The case back interior carries a case serial number, 7079.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe movement is a 17-jewel Swiss lever, unsigned on the bridges, marked \"SEVENTEEN 17 JEWELS,\" \"UNADJUSTED,\" and \"SWISS.\" A number that reads as 498 is stamped near the balance, partially obscured - likely a caliber or batch reference, unconfirmed against any parts database. The movement winds and sets correctly with no slipping or grinding, and runs consistently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDial is white enamel, signed \"Antoine \u0026amp; Fils\" in script above a sub-seconds register at 6 o'clock, with Arabic numerals and \"SWISS\" printed at the base. No chips, hairlines, or restoration - the enamel is clean throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hunter cover snaps open and closed cleanly on its spring. Case back and dust cover both open without issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCase condition is honest for its age: light scratching on the hinge and case back, with some thinning of the plating in high-contact areas. No dents, no cracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDating is estimated at c.1930s-1950s, based on the case-marking convention and the English-language jewel count alongside French case terminology - typical of pieces cased for English-speaking export markets. No formal manufacturer record exists for \"Antoine \u0026amp; Fils,\" which reads as a retailer or dial signature rather than a movement maker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSourced as part of a private collection acquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antoine \u0026 Fils","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248142176595,"sku":"PW-0064","price":395.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/antoine-fils-gold-plated-hunter-pocket-watch-c1930-front.jpg?v=1783616815"},{"product_id":"elgin-grade-117-gold-filled-full-hunter-sub-seconds-victorian-41-6mm-c-1893","title":"Full Hunter with a Scene-and-Scroll Engraved Case, 1893","description":"\u003cp\u003eA crisply engraved gold-filled full hunter by Elgin, dated to 1893 by its movement serial. The case is the star: scene-and-scroll engraving in near-perfect order, wrapped around a clean signed enamel dial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a gold-filled full hunter pocket watch by the Elgin National Watch Company, one of America's most prolific and respected makers. The movement serial, 4726507, dates it precisely to 1893. It carries Elgin's Grade 117 calibre: a 6-size, 7-jewel, gilt-finished movement with the company's patented Safety Pinion, signed 'Elgin Nat'l Watch Co.' across the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe appeal here is the case. Both covers are engraved with a cottage-and-landscape scene framed by flowing foliate scrollwork, and the work remains crisp with very little of the wear these soft gold-filled cases usually show. Few survive in this state. The front cover opens to a clean white enamel dial, signed Elgin, with black Arabic numerals, a red-and-black outer minute track and a sunk sub-seconds register at six. The dial shows no visible chips or hairlines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 41.6mm it is a small watch, the collectable 6-size that was worn as a lady's pendant or pocket piece and treated as jewellery in its own right. These are becoming harder to find, particularly with the case this well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonestly stated: the watch winds smoothly and runs, but the hand-setting is currently unreliable and would benefit from a service to bring it back to full working order. Everything else, dial, case, crystal and movement, presents beautifully. Priced accordingly, and a straightforward job for a competent watchmaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine 1893 American hunter in exceptional cosmetic condition, sold ready to display and easy to return to full function.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elgin National Watch Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249925804371,"sku":"PW-0076","price":275.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/elgin-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-c1893-front.jpg?v=1783621779"},{"product_id":"waltham-bond-st-full-hunter-10ct-gold-filled-dennison-sub-seconds-edwardian-47-7mm-c-1910","title":"Bond St. Movement in a Dennison Moon Gold-Filled Case, c.1910","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn American Waltham \"Bond St.\" movement in an English Dennison \"Moon\" gold-filled full hunter case. Winds and runs well - an honest, century-old collectable, priced to reflect the dial and a service it wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a classic Anglo-American pocket watch: an American movement in an English case, the pairing that dominated the British market either side of 1900. The movement is by the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, the firm that pioneered mass production of accurate, interchangeable-part watches. It carries Waltham's \"Bond St.\" signature, one of the grades made specifically for sale in Britain, and is a seven-jewel stem-wind, stem-set calibre with gilt plates. Serial number 17772778 dates manufacture to around 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is the work of the Dennison Watch Case Company of Birmingham, founded by Aaron Lufkin Dennison, who settled in England to supply cases for imported American movements. It is a full hunter in Dennison's \"Moon\" grade: two plates of 10ct gold over a composition core, guaranteed to wear twenty years, stamped accordingly inside the caseback. The white enamel dial is signed \"Waltham U.S.A.\" with Roman numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial at six and blued spade hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne detail collectors will note: the movement sits in the hunter case as a \"sidewinder,\" with the crown at twelve and the seconds at six. It winds smoothly and runs well. The hand-setting mechanism does not currently engage properly, so setting the time is difficult; it would benefit from a service. The enamel dial has a hairline crack from the twelve toward the centre and light surface freckling. The gold-filled case shows honest brassing on the high points from a century of pocket wear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waltham (American Waltham Watch Co.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250424861011,"sku":"PW-0081","price":285.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/waltham-gold-filled-hunter-pocket-watch-c1910-front.jpg?v=1783623167"},{"product_id":"heno-ladies-pendant-hunter-swiss-mid-century-manual-wind-27-2mm-c-1960s-70s","title":"Fully Engraved Hunter Case, Swiss, c.1960s-70s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small Swiss pendant watch with a fully engraved hunter case and a signed HENO enamel dial. It winds, sets and runs cleanly, ready to wear or display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHENO was a Swiss watch brand registered in 1950 by the Kirchhofer group of Interlaken and active through to the late 1980s. Rather than a manufacturer in the traditional sense, HENO assembled and branded watches built around bought-in Swiss movements, and specialised in the decorative ladies' pieces that were popular through the 1960s and 70s. This is a good example of that output: a small hunter-cased pendant watch made to be worn on a chain or kept as a decorative timepiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is gold-plated base metal, clearly stamped BASE METAL \/ SWISS MADE inside the caseback, and is covered front and back in dense floral and scroll engraving. The front cover springs open to reveal the dial, and the knife-lever back opens to the movement. At 27.2mm it is a little larger than the tiny ball pendants usually seen under this name, which gives it more presence on a chain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is signed HENO beneath the twelve and carries white enamel Roman-numeral cartouches set around an ornate gilt engine-turned centre, with fancy blued hands. Inside is a Swiss manual-wind movement running on 17 jewels. It winds smoothly, sets correctly through the crown, and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an honest, wearable piece rather than a precious-metal watch. The value is in the decoration, the signed Swiss dial and the fact that it is in clean working order. Vintage pendant and pocket watches have been a strong and rising part of the market, and a complete, running example presents far better than the parts-and-spares examples that dominate the listings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HENO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250481582419,"sku":"PW-0083","price":185.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/CB_01861-front.jpg?v=1783623767"},{"product_id":"french-18k-gold-quarter-repeater-hunter-pocket-watch-c-1838-1860s-bollengier-la-haye-rijksmuseum-documented-history","title":"18k Gold Quarter-Repeater from The Hague, c.1838-1860s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA substantial French 18 karat gold hunter pocket watch that genuinely works as a quarter repeater, striking the hours and quarters on demand, carrying a retailer name traced to a documented Hague clockmaking house held in the Rijksmuseum collection.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA full hunter in 18 karat gold, engine-turned over its whole surface, that answers a press of the pendant by striking the time: the hours first, then the quarters, on coiled gongs, confirmed working and sounding well. Quarter repeaters were expensive to make, complex to keep, and relatively few survive in working order; a gold one of this weight, at 55mm, is a serious object by any standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case opens in three stages: a fingernail catch lifts the front hunter lid over the dial, the back cover opens onto an engraved cuvette, and the cuvette opens onto the movement. The dial behind the front lid is solid gold, worked in three rings: a finely engine-turned centre, a chased chapter ring of raised floral sprays on a frosted ground, one bloom between every pair of Roman numerals, and an engine-turned outer band carrying the minute marks. The numerals are cut into the gold and filled in black, and the blued steel hands are Breguet pattern with the open ring near the tip. Protected under the hunter lid for its whole life, the dial has stayed crisp, the chasing still sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cuvette is signed by hand: Bollengier, La Haye, No. 3577, and the same number is struck inside the case, so the dust cover and case have always belonged together. The Hague name traces to a documented clockmaking house held in the Rijksmuseum, and the honest position on that attribution is set out in The Record below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is a gilt full plate with a genuine lever escapement and a jewelled balance, wound and set by key. It runs, winds and strikes correctly, and the hammers land with the clear, even voice the complication was bought for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the Bollengier record is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bollengier, La Haye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54429830283603,"sku":"PW-0105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/bollengier-la-haye-18k-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785286819"},{"product_id":"full-hunter-in-18ct-gold-champagne-dial-boxed-1976","title":"Full Hunter in 18ct Gold, Champagne Dial, Boxed, 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSolid 18ct gold from the maker the trade calls the watchmaker's watchmaker, still in the box it left the shop in. A name and a date sit engraved inside the case.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1976 nobody needed a pocket watch, which is exactly what makes this one interesting: it was chosen. A full hunter in solid 18ct gold from Jaeger-LeCoultre, bought as a gift and engraved inside the case, à Alain, le 7 Août 1976, at a time when a pocket watch was a deliberate piece of formality rather than a necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case rewards the choice. The lid springs open on its button and closes flush with a clean snap, satin-brushed outside and mirror-polished within, and beneath the back sits a second extravagance: a dust cover in solid 18ct gold, engine-turned and signed. Gold inside as well as out is why the watch weighs 48.5 grams at only 41.9mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe champagne dial is finished with a fine vertical satin grain that moves with the light, crisp black Roman numerals around a plain minute track, slim blackened lance hands, and the JL badge above the full signature beneath twelve: mid-1970s Geneva dress style at its most restrained. The 17-jewel manual movement is clean, bright and running well; the crown and stem have been refitted, and the watch winds and sets as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty years on it still keeps its original presentation box, the accessory that almost always disappears first. A dated inscription, its own box and a case gold through and through make it one of the most complete late pocket watches in the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the inscription and box are set out in The Inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaeger-LeCoultre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54467363504467,"sku":"PW-0120","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/jaeger-lecoultre-18ct-gold-pocket-watch-10_hero.jpg?v=1785678685"},{"product_id":"presentation-hunter-in-14ct-gold-cypher-of-carol-i-c-1900","title":"Presentation Hunter in 14ct Gold, Cypher of Carol I, c.1900","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA royal presentation hunter in solid 14ct gold, its lid enamelled with the crowned cypher of King Carol I of Romania, by the Geneva house that held his royal warrant.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cypher fills the front lid: two opposed C's, interlaced and scrolled, laid in blue enamel within a fine dotted border, beneath the closed crown of Romania with its cap enamelled in red and an orb and cross at the summit. It is the personal mark of Carol I, King of Romania, and that is the point of a piece like this: a sovereign's presentation watch announced its giver, not its owner. The recipient carried the King's own cypher, and the watch did its work every time the lid caught the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is a full hunter of 48.53mm in solid 14ct gold, 81.7 grams in the hand. Even the gold standard is a trace of the court that ordered it: Carol was born a Hohenzollern, and 14ct was the German goldsmithing standard rather than the Swiss and French preference for 18ct. The back cover is plain polished gold, deliberately left empty, every ornament reserved for the front. The pendant carries a fluted winding crown with the lid release set into it as a small pusher, and inside sits a gold cuvette stamped with the house's name and its own number, 30686.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white enamel without a hairline, chip or repair. Black fancy Arabic numerals in the taste of the years around 1900, small diamond markers at the five minute divisions, and a sunk subsidiary seconds ring above six. The hands are pierced, scrolled Louis XV work in gold, closer to jewellery than to watch furniture, which is fitting from a house that was as much jeweller as watchmaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatches carrying royal cyphers tend to come down hard-used, polished through or with the enamel lost, because recipients wore the honour daily. This one was kept. The enamel of the crown and cypher is complete, the covers close with their original snap, and the movement winds and runs as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the full condition report are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golay Fils \u0026 Stahl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54863961096531,"sku":"PW-0145","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/golay-fils-stahl-14k-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1788725699"}],"url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/collections\/shop-by-case-style-hunter.oembed","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}