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This is one of the more complicated of them: an 18k gold open-face watch of 49.6mm that strikes the time on demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe repeater is set off from the gold pendant, pulled out and given a quarter turn, and it strikes the hours and then the quarters on two gongs, clearly and correctly. It has been tested and strikes as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial sits under a glazed bezel; at the back, a hinged cover opens onto the cuvette, and the cuvette onto 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 caseback carries an engraved strapwork cartouche with flowers and foliage on an engine-turned ground, the bezel a band of engraved foliage with a milled edge, and the ornate floral bow and pendant are original and intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cuvette carries Bataille aîné's name and the movement's specification. Under it the movement is gilt, with a ruby endstone in the steel cap of the balance cock, blued and polished steel screws, and the two gongs running round its edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds and sets on its key, runs, and strikes. 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Key-wound, and working precisely.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost watches show the hour with a hand; this one announces it. The hour is read through a small aperture in the upper dial, the heures sautantes of French watchmaking, where the numeral sits perfectly still and then snaps forward at the instant the new hour arrives. A single blued moon-tipped hand sweeps the minutes on the outer track below; the hour simply changes. The complication never became common, and watching it trip over the hour has not lost its effect in two hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch is French, from the years around 1820 to 1835, in a gold case of 40.6mm engine-turned across its surfaces, with French hallmarks including the eagle's head gold mark. The dial is white enamel, clean and legible, with the jumping hour in its window, Arabic minute numerals and the outer track, and it is free of chips or cracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is a key-wound cylinder with a cut bimetallic compensation balance, its gilt plate engraved Quatre trous en rubis, four ruby jewels, the maker stating his specification plainly in the metal. It is wound and set by key, as everything of its date was, and it winds smoothly, sets correctly and jumps precisely on the hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case shows minor surface wear consistent with age, with no dents or deformation; the ball-and-ring bow may be a later replacement, and it is securely fitted. 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Cornioley of La Chaux-de-Fonds, founded around 1917, built such movements around two barrels with differential winding, and its eight-day watches have passed through Antiquorum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example sets that eight-day movement under a dial with two matching oval panels balanced against each other on the silvered ground: running seconds on the left, and opposite it a mirror-polished cartouche carrying the lettering 8 DAYS \/ CORNIOLEY. Tall Deco Arabic numerals ring them, under violet-blued Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip. The typography and geometry are Art Deco doing what it did best, order without ornament, and the silvered ground has toned to an even frosted speckle that suits the instrument character of the watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is chrome, 50mm, the modish industrial material of the period, showing honest wear consistent with age and no damage. The movement runs well, winds smoothly and sets correctly, and the case back opens cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornioley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250878370131,"sku":"PW-0089","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/file_0de17352-8a40-4b3c-ba3e-9be984242c4e.jpg?v=1783626027"},{"product_id":"ulysse-nardin-silver-split-seconds-observatory-chronometer-neuchatel-1937","title":"Silver Split-Seconds Chronometer, Neuchâtel Trials, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA documented 1937 Neuchatel Observatory competition watch: a sterling silver Ulysse Nardin split-seconds chronograph with a Guillaume balance, still running and splitting exactly as it should.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most compact of the observatory pieces in this collection, and the one in silver: an open-face split-seconds chronograph of 54.7mm, entered by Ulysse Nardin in the 1937 pocket-chronometer trials at Neuchâtel. An extract from the observatory's chronometer database accompanies it, recording a mean daily rate of +1.52 seconds and a mean daily variation of 0.35 seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white enamel in excellent order, signed Ulysse Nardin, Locle \u0026amp; Genève and marked Chronomètre, with bold Breguet numerals, a blued steel poire hour hand and slim minute hand, a thirty-minute register at twelve and constant seconds at six carrying the movement number. Two centre hands run together, one of them lacquered oxblood red; press the button and one stops to take a split while the other carries on, then flies back to rejoin it. Both the chronograph and the split work correctly, and the watch winds, sets and runs as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sterling silver case is Ulysse Nardin's own, numbered, and it wears its age openly: an even patina and the handling marks of nine decades, with nothing hidden and nothing polished away. The dial and the movement are the reason the watch exists, and both remain in the condition the trials demanded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf the four Neuchâtel chronometers in this collection, each has its own year, its own metal and its own result. 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The serial is engraved on the movement and, unusually, printed into the small-seconds register of the dial itself, so dial and movement declare their partnership openly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white grand feu enamel without a hairline, signed and marked Chronomètre, with bold black Breguet numerals, a thirty-minute recorder at twelve, running seconds at six carrying the serial, and a chapter divided to tenths of a second. The time is told by rose gold Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip; the two blued steel centre hands run, split and catch exactly as they should, and the watch winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes with its original red leather travel case, worn at the edges and intact, with the Ulysse Nardin factory extract recording its delivery, and with an extract from the Neuchâtel observatory chronometer database naming its trial and its régleur, Werner Dubois.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the 1953 trial is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343668203859,"sku":"PW-0092","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/1_9619a2c2-7a45-4360-822b-668e80ef9f93_Hero.jpg?v=1785249285"},{"product_id":"ulysse-nardin-steel-split-seconds-chronometer-first-prize-neuchatel-1933","title":"Split-Seconds Chronometer, First Prize at Neuchâtel, 1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA working split-seconds chronograph that competed at the Neuchatel Observatory and won a First Prize chronometer bulletin in 1933. Documented, and complete with its original box.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1933 Ulysse Nardin entered movement 17731 in the pocket-chronometer trials at the Neuchâtel Observatory, where entries were rated for weeks, position by position and temperature by temperature, against astronomical time. It was awarded a First Prize in the first class, placing 13th of 35 with a score of N=5.99. An extract from the observatory chronometer database accompanies the watch, and the full result is set out in The Record below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes the piece remarkable is that the precision lives inside a complication. This is a split-seconds chronograph: two centre hands sweep together, one stops at a press to catch an intermediate time, and snaps forward to rejoin its partner at the next. Regulating an ordinary watch to prize standard is hard; regulating one carrying rattrapante works is harder still, and everything here still functions exactly as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch is built as an instrument. The case is plated metal in the full Goliath format, 65.9mm, with both covers closing firmly and the maker's cartouche inside. The dial is white grand feu enamel without a hairline or a chip: bold Breguet numerals under a blued steel poire hour hand, a thirty-minute recorder at twelve, small seconds at six carrying the movement number, and an outer track dividing each second into fifths, the scale the trials were read on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds, sets and runs correctly; the chronograph starts, stops and resets cleanly, and the split hand divides and catches exactly as designed. 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Ulysse Nardin entered this movement, number 121026, in the 1943 pocket-chronometer trials at Neuchâtel and placed in the first class; the result is set out in The Record below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a Goliath of 64.6mm in Staybrite stainless steel, with a hinged back and inner dust cover. The dial is white vitreous enamel, laid out for timing: bold Breguet numerals, violet-blued poire hands, a thirty-minute counter at twelve, running seconds at six, an outer fifth-of-a-second track, signed Ulysse Nardin, Chronomètre, Locle Suisse and numbered to match the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe split-seconds works from a large button on the case band: one centre hand stops to read an intermediate time while the other runs on, then the two snap back together. Start, stop and reset run through the crown pusher. Every function engages cleanly, and the watch winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a small chip to the crystal rim near the seven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes in its original Ulysse Nardin Locle-Genève fitted box, with a printed extract of its 1943 result from the Neuchâtel observatory database.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the 1943 placing is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343668531539,"sku":"PW-0094","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/ulysse-nardin-staybrite-stainless-steel-pocket-watch-1_hero_141fced3-3b11-4416-a656-dc8a162a71d1.jpg?v=1785179042"},{"product_id":"longines-18k-gold-pocket-watch-1937-cal-17-95-vroom-dreesmann-provenance","title":"18k Gold Open-Face, an Amsterdam Family Gift, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 18k gold Longines pocket watch given as a family gift in Amsterdam in 1937, complete with its original box, certificate, and the note it was given with. Documented from the day it was given.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the 8th of October 1937, in Amsterdam, Cisca Tombrock turned seventy-five, and she marked the day in a way few grandmothers could: she gave each of her thirty-three grandchildren an identical gold Longines pocket watch. This is the one that went to seven-year-old Wim Vroom, and the case back still carries the gift in Dutch: Aan Wim Vroom ter gelegenheid van Oma's 75sten verjaardag, Amsterdam 8 Oct. 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe family could afford the gesture. Cisca's husband Willem Vroom had co-founded Vroom \u0026amp; Dreesmann in 1887 with his brother-in-law Anton Dreesmann, building it from a single Amsterdam shop, fixed low prices, cash only, into one of the largest department store chains in the Netherlands. Wim himself took another path: economics, then art history, then the Rijksmuseum, where he directed the Department of Dutch History from 1971 to 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt later left the family and passed through an auction house unrecognised. A specialist Dutch dealer bought it, noticed the engraved name, traced it back to the Vroom family, and the family confirmed the story. Everything given with it in 1937 is still with it now: the fitted presentation box, the signed Longines Certificat de Garantie dated 20 October 1937, the woven chatelaine cord with its fob seal, the leather pouch, and the original handwritten gift note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch itself deserves the story. It is an open-face dress watch in solid 18k gold, 44.4mm, in a curved step case, with a clean, unrestored cream dial, applied gold lance markers doubled at twelve, matching gold lance hands, a dot minute track and sub-seconds at six. 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Adjusted to five positions, in excellent original condition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA case in solid platinum and a silvered dial set with diamonds: this is a Patek Philippe dress pocket watch made around 1930, as the great pocket watch era was drawing to a close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is solid platinum, 43.95mm, in a late Art Deco form with a geometric octagonal bow and a fluted crown. The dial is original and silvered, with eleven diamond hour markers: eight round diamonds in square claw settings and three baguettes at twelve, three and nine, an engine-turned sub-seconds ring at six, a dot minute track, and slim white leaf hands over the whole. The settings sit cleanly within an unbroken dot track, with the printing around them undisturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the dial is caliber 17-140, eighteen jewels, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, and it winds smoothly, sets cleanly and runs well. 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Jewellery-grade Cartier from the height of the Art Deco period, and it still runs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Cartier evening watch of the mid-1920s, at the scale the house judged right for the job: 31mm of solid 18k gold, slim enough for the pocket of a dinner jacket, wound and set from the pendant. What lifts it beyond the plain gold examples is the caseband: a continuous border of baguette rubies, channel-set the whole way round, every stone present. In the hand the border reads as a thin line of colour; under light it comes alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is two-tone silver with an engine-turned centre, stylised Art Deco Arabic numerals and blued Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip, signed Cartier, Paris-Londres. It is original and untouched, carrying light spotting to the centre and around the upper numerals exactly as an unrestored dial of this age should, with the signature still crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCartier in the 1920s was making watches as jewellery and jewellery as watches, and this piece sits precisely on that line: a working lever movement inside a case built like a ring. The movement winds smoothly, sets correctly and runs well. The gold shows the honest scratches of an evening watch that went out often; the rubies show only light surface wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGem-set Cartier pocket watches were made in small numbers and tend to stay in collections once they arrive. 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Signed Monnier à Paris, hallmarked to 1809-1819, with every enamel panel intact.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gold watch from the age of Napoleon, painted in enamel from bow to caseback and still keeping time. The back carries a hand-painted scene in the soft palette of the period: a couple in a wooded landscape, a cottage beyond, fired into the gold in full colour. The same blue, white and gold run over the bezel as a laurel band of enamel leaves and onto small panels on the pendant and the bow, while an engraved gold border frames the scene and the case band is engraved gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pendant carries the eagle's head used by the French provincial assay offices from 1809 to 1819, so the case was assayed in those years, the last of the Empire and the first of the Restoration. 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By a Geneva house whose work is held in the Met.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lady's fob watch from Geneva of about 1840, in solid 18ct gold, with its painted enamel intact. The spray, a full-blown rose, a blue pansy, forget-me-nots and green foliage fired into the gold, has no chips or crazing. The colours are still bright, the surface clean and whole, with only the light mellowing of age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers sit on a ground of hand-worked engine-turning, front and back, framed in chased rococo scrollwork. Behind the original glass is a silver dial engine-turned in a radiating fan pattern scattered with tiny engraved sprigs, with slim black Roman numerals and a pair of finely pierced gilt hands. It takes its key through the back, as everything of its date did, and it winds and runs. It needs a service: the hands touch when it is wound, and the glass sits loose in the bezel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, the gold cuvette carries the full signature of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils of Geneva with its serial number, and every number on the watch agrees. The movement is a gilt cylinder calibre jewelled in ruby, the proper specification for a Geneva piece of this grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 36mm it wears as a fob or pendant watch, on a chain as it was meant to be, or it sits in a cabinet with the enamel facing out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe maker's standing is set out in The Maker; the marks, the movement and the condition are in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliez, Bachelard \u0026 Terond Fils","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371086270803,"sku":"PW-0099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/alliez-bachelard-terond-fils-18ct-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785270728"},{"product_id":"patek-philippe-open-face-pocket-watch-goldsmiths-silversmiths-c-1914","title":"Retailed by Goldsmiths \u0026 Silversmiths, Crested, c.1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA genuine Patek Philippe pocket watch of around 1914, retailed by the Goldsmiths \u0026amp; Silversmiths Company of Regent Street, its two covers engraved with a family's arms and cypher. It winds, sets and runs exactly as it should.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement was made in Geneva by Patek Philippe around 1914, finished to the standard that made the name. The case and cuvette carry the stamp of the Goldsmiths \u0026amp; Silversmiths Company of 112 Regent Street, who sold the finished watch, and the number 1196.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth covers were engraved for its first owner: one with a full armorial achievement, three crested helmets above a quartered shield, the other with an entwined cypher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silvered dial is laid out in the restrained Geneva dress style of the era: painted black Breguet numerals, the slanted, flourished figures the great houses used on their formal watches, blued steel Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip, and a printed railway minute track. The surface has aged to a warm, gently mottled tone, the soft marks of a century of ownership rather than any damage or restoration. It is unsigned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 46.9mm it is a full-size gentleman's hunter, its case in an unmarked white metal, supplied on its chain. The keyless lever movement winds smoothly, sets cleanly and runs as it should, with the hand-finishing visible under the dust cover doing quiet justice to the signature on the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the retailer, the coat of arms and the archive route are set out in Provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe \u0026 Cie, Genève","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371088302419,"sku":"PW-0101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-cie-gen-ve-18ct-white-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1789237038"},{"product_id":"zenith-silver-split-seconds-chronograph-besancon-observatory-chronometer-c-1922","title":"Split-Seconds Chronograph, First Class at Besançon, 1922","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA silver split-seconds chronograph by Zenith, timed and certified as a First-Class chronometer at the Besançon Observatory in 1922. It arrives with its own documented observatory record: the paperwork that proves exactly what it is.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA split-seconds chronograph in solid silver by Zenith, made around 1921 and sent to be judged. The movement was deposited at the Besançon Observatory in July 1922, rated through the French national trials, and awarded a First-Class bulletin; the archive extract confirming the result, obtained from Besançon itself, accompanies the watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe complication is the rattrapante: two slender blued steel chronograph hands stacked at the centre, one stopping at a press to take a split while the other runs on, then flying back to rejoin it. A thirty-minute register sits at twelve, running seconds at six, and a fifths-of-a-second scale rings the dial. Everything works: the chronograph starts, stops and resets cleanly, and the split hand divides and catches as it was regulated to do a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white enamel, clean and bright, signed Zénith in the accented form of the period, its bold Arabic numerals under rose gold leaf hands, the one warm note on an instrument face. The case is solid silver, 51.4mm, with an engine-turned barleycorn back and a plain central cartouche that no owner ever engraved. The silver marks are softened by age and present throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA watch sent to an observatory was built above ordinary production and adjusted by a named specialist over weeks of testing; here the régleur's name, M. Perret, is entered in the Besançon register beside the movement number. It winds, sets and runs correctly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the Besançon result and archive extract are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zenith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371088957779,"sku":"PW-0102","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/zenith-silver-pocket-watch-1_Hero.jpg?v=1785250355"},{"product_id":"piaget-18k-gold-envelope-secret-watch-ref-9513-cal-9p-c-1965","title":"The 'Envelope' in 18k Woven Gold, Ref. 9513, c.1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePush the centre of the woven gold flap and a Piaget watch rises to meet you. Solid 18k gold, a blue sapphire cabochon crown, and the ultra-thin calibre 9P hidden inside.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt rest it is a small envelope of woven 18k gold, about the size of a matchbook, its reeded basketweave running edge to edge, the flap outlined by a polished gold rod. Press the centre of the flap and it opens: the watch inside lifts on its hinge and stands upright, a white dial with black Roman numerals and blued steel hands, signed Piaget. Read the time, close the flap, and the watch disappears back into the gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe envelope belongs to the Maison's great decade of dressed-up watchmaking, made around 1960 as a travel and desk piece for people who wanted the time nearby but not on show: on a night table, in a jacket pocket, beside a hotel telephone. The winding crown is set with a sapphire cabochon, the small blue full stop Piaget put on its dress pieces, and a French owl import mark is tucked into the weave, the trace of its journey into France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason the trick works at all is a movement thin enough to vanish inside a case the depth of a few stacked coins. What matters in the hand is the object itself: 42.7 by 31.1 millimetres of woven gold, dense, hinged and precise, as much goldsmithing as watchmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe weave is even and intact and it winds and runs correctly. It keeps its original black Piaget pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Piaget","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371090465107,"sku":"PW-0113","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/piaget-18k-yellow-gold-curiosity-item-1_Hero_4b01772d-86f3-4489-8626-ae39d61e207d.jpg?v=1787943466"},{"product_id":"no-1852-authenticated-by-breguets-patrimony-1914","title":"No. 1852, Confirmed by Breguet's Archive Records, 1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA genuine Breguet pendant watch of 1914, its 18ct gold case worked in royal-blue guilloche enamel and centred with a rose-cut diamond rosette. Confirmed by Breguet's Patrimony department from its own archive records, with documented Paris provenance and its original matching enamel-and-pearl chain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pendant watch of 26.7mm, small enough to sit in the hollow of a palm, and finished the way only a great Paris house finishes small things. The back is translucent royal-blue enamel over engine-turning, held inside a white enamel border, and at its centre sits a pinwheel rosette of rose-cut diamonds. The bezel repeats the blue and white around a gilt engine-turned dial with Breguet Arabic numerals and blued steel Breguet hands, the open-ring pattern the house itself invented. Everything about it was made to be worn against dark fabric on a long chain, and the chain is still here: the original sautoir of slender blue enamel batons spaced with seed pearls, closed by a diamond-set clasp. Chains of this kind are nearly always lost or separated over a century; a matching original changes what the piece is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a Breguet of the Brown era, made in Paris and sold from the maison's salon at 2 rue Édouard VII in the spring of 1914. The house's registers record the sale, and the watch's return for service nine years later; the entry, confirmed in writing by Breguet, is set out in The Archive below. What the object adds to the paperwork is condition: the enamel still bright with only a few tiny chips, the rosette secure though two of its smaller stones are gone, the original crystal in place, the chain showing only light wear to a few links.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor all its jewellery, it is a proper watch. The keyless bar movement winds from the crown, sets by drawing it out, and runs correctly: a full lever-escapement mechanism folded into a case not much bigger than a coat button.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePieces like this belong to a particular Paris, the last spring before the First World War, when a watch could be commissioned as a jewel and entered in a ledger by hand. This one has kept its enamel, its chain and its paper trail together for more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the register entry is set out in The Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breguet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54429829103955,"sku":"PW-0088","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/breguet-18ct-solid-gold-with-royal-blue-guilloch-and-white-enamel-pocket-watch-1_Hero_96893213-8e24-4964-b0fb-560d35e622f5.jpg?v=1785287033"},{"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 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\u003eAn open-face watch 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. At 55mm and in 18 karat gold, it is a serious object by any standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case opens in three stages: a fingernail catch lifts the glazed front bezel, the back cover opens onto an engraved cuvette, and the cuvette opens onto the movement. The dial under the glass is solid gold, worked in three rings: a finely engine-turned centre, a chased chapter ring of raised floral sprays on a cross-hatched 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. 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 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","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":"unsigned-swiss-gold-pocket-watch-guilloche-and-enamel-on-dial-and-caseback-c-1900","title":"Unsigned Swiss Gold Pocket Watch, Guilloché and Enamel on Bezel and Caseback, c.1910","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwiss 18K gold, decorated in guilloché and cobalt and white enamel on the bezel and the case back, with an engine-turned gold dial. Swiss hallmarked and running.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo name appears anywhere on this watch, and the case makes its argument on its own. It is 18K gold, 38mm across, and it is decorated on both faces. The back carries a fan of vertical engine-turned panels bordered in cobalt blue and white enamel, framed in chased gold scrollwork and topped by an oval cartouche; turn to the front and the same blue and white enamel runs around the bezel under pierced gold scrollwork, so the watch presents a finished face whichever way it lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial keeps the theme, in three textures. The centre is a basin of fine concentric engine-turned circles inside a beaded ring, the numeral ring is frosted matte gold carrying tall, stylised black Arabic figures of the Art Nouveau years, and the sub-seconds at six is turned in the same concentric rings. Over it all sit blued steel Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip: a dial made by the same instinct that decorated the case, with nowhere left plain that could be worked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch is keyless, wound and set entirely through the crown, and it winds smoothly, sets correctly and runs well. The rose-toned pendant and bow sit warmly against the yellow gold of the body, and at 38mm it wears as easily on a chain as it sits in a pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enamel is intact on both faces, without chips, cracks or fading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the enamel work is shown close in The Enamel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsigned (Swiss)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54429834051923,"sku":"PW-0110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/unsigned-18k-gold-case-contrasting-rose-gold-pendant-bow-and-crown-pocket-watch-1_hero_4d97f1e7-89db-4d71-8bef-6c1c3bf47ff4.jpg?v=1785286679"},{"product_id":"bovet-fleurier-chinese-market-pocket-watch-sterling-silver-c-1850","title":"Bovet Fleurier Chinese Market Pocket Watch, Sterling Silver, c.1850","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe maker whose name became the word for watch in southern China. A sterling silver Bovet Fleurier built for the Canton trade, complete with its original Chinese shichen dial, and still running today.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1822, Édouard Bovet stepped ashore at Canton with watches to sell, and within a generation his family name had become the everyday Cantonese word for the object itself. The Bovets built the China trade from Fleurier, ran it for four decades, and lost it in the 1860s to the counterfeiting their success invited. This watch was made in the middle of that story, most likely in the 1850s, and it left the Val-de-Travers with one destination in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial says so at a glance: two systems share one enamel face, the twelve double-hour characters of the Chinese day around the outside, Western Roman numerals inside them, and the quarter divisions dotted between, read by three blued steel hands, the slender centre seconds sweeping the whole dial in the Chinese-market manner. It is clean, with no chips or hairlines, and behind the original glass it has survived nearly two centuries of use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen the back and the second audience appears. Chinese-market watches were sold as much on their movements as their dials, and this one is fire-gilt, its bridges covered edge to edge in cut decoration, its ruby jewels seated in screwed gold chatons: a mechanism made to be shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is sterling silver, 55mm, its lion passant mark worn but legible, carrying the handling marks of a long working life without dents or repairs. Winding is by key through the back, with separate arbors for the spring and the hands, and it winds, sets and runs, keeping time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatches like this crossed the world under sail. This one still has everything it crossed with: its dial, its engraving, its silver and its mechanism, working.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the double-time dial and the retailer's cartouche are set out in The Dial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bovet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54429834641747,"sku":"PW-0112","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/bovet-sterling-silver-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785286598"},{"product_id":"solid-onyx-dress-watch-diamond-set-caseback-c-1925","title":"Solid Onyx Dress Watch, Diamond-Set Caseback, c.1925","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA disc of solid black onyx with a rose-cut diamond set into its back and Cartier's name across a silvered dial. Art Deco dress watchmaking at its most confident, and one of the rarest forms Cartier ever gave a pocket watch.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a disc of solid black onyx, 48.2mm across, polished to a deep even shine, hung from a triangular platinum bow with a fluted crown seated between its prongs. Against that black ground Cartier set everything that matters: a ring of gold Roman numerals on black enamel, a silvered guilloché centre signed Cartier, blued steel Breguet hands, and, in the middle of the caseback, a single rose-cut diamond that catches the light every time the watch is turned over. It tells the time and does nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnyx gives the watch its character and its rarity at once: unforgiving to work when the case was made, and easy to chip in any year since. This example has kept its edges and its shine, the surfaces clean, the stone whole, with only the light surface marks of age to the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook closely and the detailing is Cartier at its most exact: beaded gold tracks framing the chapter ring, small gold florets between the hours, Arabic minute numerals in the outer ring, the deep blue of the hands floating over the pale silver centre. Nothing is loud, and everything is deliberate. 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Leroy \u0026amp; Cie of Paris, protected by Leroy's own patented anti-magnetic screen. Sold new to a named Parisian owner, running perfectly, still in its original 18ct gold.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enemy of every fine watch in 1913 was invisible: magnetism, seeping from the new century's dynamos, motors and electric lines, quietly ruining balance springs. Louis Leroy had patented his defence years earlier, and this chronograph carries it, the whole movement enclosed in the firm's anti-magnetic screen. The inner cover is stamped for the patent, and a copy of the 1906 patent document travels with the watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround that idea Leroy built a chronograph of real grandeur: 18ct gold, 51.9mm, with a flawless white enamel dial signed Leroy Paris, slim Arabic numerals, an outer fifths-of-a-second track, an instantaneous sixty-minute register at twelve and running seconds at six, read against rose gold poire hands with the chronograph work in blued steel. The chronograph works through the crown, starting, stopping and returning to zero without hesitation, and the watch winds, sets and runs cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is a column-wheel chronograph finished in gilt with ruby jewels in gold chatons, sealed inside its screen like an instrument in its case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the watch is documented to the day. Leroy's own ledger records it, names its first owner and the Paris street he lived on, and prices the sale in the francs of the summer of 1913; the entry is set out in The Archive below. The gold shows only light hairlines from a century of careful carrying, the crystal is sound and the crown secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the ledger entry and the patent are set out in The Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"L. 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Every time it is opened to read the time and clicked shut again, the spring takes another breath, so a watch that travels in a pocket or a bag stays running for as long as it keeps being looked at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Movado Ermeto in solid 18ct gold, made in the 1950s and 33 by 47mm closed. Both sliding covers are worked in fine barleycorn engine-turning inside polished bevelled borders, and a gold bail at one corner lets it hang from a chain or fob. Ermetos were the travelling watch of their era, sold through good jewellers to people who moved between hotels and sleeper trains, and gold was the dearest of the case options.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is a square of silvered ground signed Movado over Switzerland, with applied gold Arabic numerals at the quarters, faceted dart markers between them and faceted dauphine hands, ringed by a gold dot minute track. It is a clean, architectural face, and it has stayed that way: unspotted, with every numeral and marker in place, under a clear and undamaged crystal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition is where most Ermetos fail. The engine-turning sits proud of the surface and wears flat with decades of handling, so most examples are smooth where they should be crisp. Here the barleycorn is sharp across both faces, the bevels still catch the light, and there are no dents or rubbed-through areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pleasure of the thing is in the action. The case slides open with a smooth, weighted resistance and shuts with a clean click, and the watch runs correctly from that motion alone. 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The body is 18K white gold, 44mm, plain polished front and back, and it is set with sapphires wherever a stone could sit: a continuous calibré-cut border around the bezel, the same stones carried across the bow, so the watch glitters from the chain down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is mother of pearl over a silver base, with applied gold Art Deco Arabic numerals softly toned by age, dark cross-pattée hands over the silvered centre, and a pearl-dot minute track; its reverse carries the signature of Stern Frères of Geneva, and what that signature means is set out in The Dial below. In the case, the pearl shifts colour with every angle of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case opens in three stages, the front bezel on its hinge, the back cover, and the cuvette onto the movement, each closing with a secure click. Behind it all is a Movado 17-jewel dress calibre with five adjustments and its jewels in gold chatons; it winds, sets and runs correctly, the hands moving freely and the gold crown locking positively in both positions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe monogram on the back is the trace of the commission: this was made for someone, to an order that specified white gold, sapphires and a pearl dial from the best supplier in Geneva. A century later the stones are all present, the pearl is uncracked and undiscoloured, and the crystal shows only minor fogging at its edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the Stern Frères signature is set out in The Dial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Movado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54466900754771,"sku":"PW-0122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/movado-18ct-white-gold-pocket-watch-1_Hero.jpg?v=1785672691"},{"product_id":"white-enamel-breguet-dial-in-solid-18ct-gold-c-1913","title":"White Enamel Breguet Dial in Solid 18ct Gold, c.1913","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA genuine Vacheron \u0026amp; Constantin in solid 18ct gold, triple-signed and in perfect running order. White enamel dial, Breguet numerals, c.1913.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA full-size Belle Époque Vacheron \u0026amp; Constantin: 48.9mm of solid 18ct yellow gold, made in Geneva around 1913 and sold new by J. Neubauer of Verviers, a jeweller in the prosperous Belgian textile town, in the last years before the First World War. The retailer's name is still engraved inside, next to the maker's; between the two of them, the watch carries both its maker and the shop counter it first crossed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the heart of it. White enamel with black Breguet-style Arabic numerals and a sub-seconds register at six, it is clean and bright with no chips and no hairline cracks. The hands are slim gold batons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case matches it: bright polish, crisp bezel and edges, the caseback and inner cuvette both closing with a firm, precise snap. Behind them the frosted gilt keyless lever movement winds smoothly, sets cleanly and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the three signatures and the retailer's mark are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vacheron \u0026 Constantin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54467171385683,"sku":"PW-0117","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/vacheron-constantin-18k-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785676557"},{"product_id":"full-hunter-in-18ct-gold-champagne-dial-boxed-1976","title":"Full Hunter in 18ct Gold, Ref. 9104, Champagne Dial, c.1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReference 9104 in 18ct gold: a mid-1970s full hunter on JLC's slim calibre 818, with a gold cuvette and a dated French inscription inside the back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJaeger-LeCoultre made it as a dress pocket watch built on a wristwatch movement: the manual-wind calibre 818, under three millimetres high, the slim calibre the firm used in its own dress watches of the period and supplied to Vacheron Constantin and Chopard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case carries reference 9104, from the four-digit series JLC used for its dress watches of the 1970s, alongside the Tank 9107 and the Vogue 9120. It is cut in plain, flat planes. The lid is satin-brushed and left without a monogram or cartouche, the bow is rectangular, and the gold inside both covers is polished. Under the back sits a second gold cover, finished in overlapping circles of perlage and signed LeCoultre \u0026amp; Co, Swiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is champagne with a fine vertical brushed grain, printed black Roman numerals and a printed minute track, with the JL emblem set above the Jaeger-LeCoultre script signature. The hands are slim blackened lances. There is no seconds hand: the 818 is normally fitted with small seconds, and here the dial is kept to hours and minutes, as on the two-hand dress watches JLC made in the same years. Without a subsidiary dial, the brushed field runs uninterrupted inside the minute track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 818 was introduced in 1959 and was still part of JLC's range when this watch was cased; it beats at 18,000 vibrations an hour. This one is rhodium-plated with gilt lettering, signed LeCoultre \u0026amp; Co, with Swiss, Unadjusted and Seventeen 17 Jewels written out across the barrel bridge. The balance runs under Kif shock protection, and the regulator index is marked F and S, A and R, in English and French. The wording is the form JLC used on movements marked for the American market, where the firm kept the LeCoultre name, while the inscription inside the case is in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case numbers, the inscription and the box are set out in The Inscription; the marks, the movement and the condition are in the drawers below.\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":"bark-finish-brooch-watch-applied-calatrava-cross-c-1970","title":"Bark-Finish Brooch Watch, Engraved Calatrava Cross, c.1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe you wear on the lapel, not the wrist. Square white gold with the Calatrava cross engraved on its gold crown and the honest patina of half a century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small square watch in white gold, small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, built in the manner Patek reserved for its dress and jewellery pieces at the turn of the 1970s. The case is worked in the vertical bark texture, écorce, that the maison used across this family of watches. The winding crown is fluted yellow gold, and engraved into its flat face is the Calatrava cross, Patek's own emblem, cut into the gold rather than printed on it. White gold body, yellow gold detail: a two-tone language that belongs entirely to its moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe look is pure late-1960s and early-1970s Geneva: architectural, textured, restrained. The square case and the bark finish were a deliberate move away from the polished round dress watch, and Patek executed it with the same care it gave everything else. Held in the hand it feels dense and precise, the edges crisp, the finish deep rather than shiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the quiet heart of the piece. Cream and silvered, signed PATEK PHILIPPE GENÈVE beneath an applied 12, with applied baton markers and two hands. Time only. Age has settled into it exactly as it should: a soft, even patina across the surface, and markers that have oxidised to deep petrol blues and purples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds and sets correctly and keeps time. The crystal is clean and the crown firm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brooch fitting on the reverse is an aftermarket addition: the pin was soldered on later. It is fully functional, turning the watch into something that can be pinned to a lapel, a collar or a coat, but it is not factory-original. The work has left its traces, light heat discoloration along the caseback edge and two small holes from the original fitting, and they are shown plainly in the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54467632169299,"sku":"PW-0119","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-white-gold-with-yellow-gold-accents-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785679291"},{"product_id":"18ct-gold-lepine-with-a-hand-engraved-cipher-back-c-1895","title":"N° 2961, 18ct Gold Lépine with a Hand-Engraved Cipher, 1878","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 18ct gold keyless Lépine, Breguet N° 2961, sold in Paris on 18 October 1878. Its case number, gold cuvette and enamel dial are all recorded in the house's own sales books.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eN° 2961 is a 19-ligne keyless Lépine in 18ct gold, 49.17mm across, made in the plain, high-grade form Breguet was selling from Paris in the late 1870s: open face, white enamel dial, gold cuvette, lever escapement. It is the full gentleman's size of the period rather than a slim dress watch. The house's own books describe it simply as a watch with winding crown. In 1878 that was still a choice rather than a given; the firm had been selling key-wound gold watches only a few years before, and the fluted crown here, set on a tall pendant under a large round bow, is part of what places it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial follows the pattern the house used through this period: black Roman hours, Arabic numerals at every five minutes on the outer track, each marked with a dot, 60 at the top, and a sunk subsidiary seconds at six. The signature is small and pale, Breguet in script with the number 2961 beneath it. The hands are blued steel Breguet hands. The register records gold hands at the sale in 1878; the watch returned to Breguet for service several times in the 1880s, and the present pair most likely dates from one of those visits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back is engine-turned in a fine basket pattern, reserved at the centre for a large engraved cipher, an E among interlaced letters, framed by foliate scrolls and cut into the gold with hatched infill. It was an owner's commission rather than the maker's, and it has kept its edges. The gold cuvette beneath is engraved Breguet in a long, flourished script with N° 2961 below, and the case number 22687 is struck on the inside of the back: the same number written against the watch in the sales register in 1878.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is frosted gilt, laid out in long parallel bars. The keyless work sits on top in grained steel, left unpolished against the matt gilt of the plates. It winds, sets and runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below; the watch's entry in Breguet's books is in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breguet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54467858301267,"sku":"PW-0115","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/breguet-18ct-gold-pocket-watch-27_hero.jpg?v=1785680042"},{"product_id":"rolex-time-to-the-second-desk-clock-root-dial-c1985","title":"Rolex 'Time to the Second' Desk Clock, Wood-Effect Dial, c.1985","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA genuine Rolex showroom clock, made for the dealer's counter and never sold to the public. Every Rolex signature, the sports bezel, root dial, Mercedes hands and cyclops date, shrunk onto the desk.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor decades the only way to see one of these was across a jeweller's counter. Rolex supplied desk clocks like this to its authorised dealers and to nobody else; they were equipment, not stock, and they did their work beside the watches they advertised. This is Reference 455, individually numbered 1212 on the base, made around 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt wears the house language at desk scale. The bezel is a notched sports-watch ring around a lacquered insert, dial and insert share a warm root figuring in wood-effect lacquer that recalls the brown of the gold GMT-Master, and over the date sits a cyclops lens, with applied luminous markers and Mercedes hands completing the set. The case is a heavy tapering drum of reeded gilt brass, and the dial is signed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the face is a Swiss quartz calibre with centre seconds and the date, and it runs. The gilt printing is crisp, the crystal clear over its cyclops, the plating bright with only minor handling marks, and it is set and regulated from the movement, as these were built to be: there is no crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dealer-clock story is told in the rooms below; the condition and the particulars are set out beneath them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54521281872211,"sku":"CI-0018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/rolex-gilt-brass-curiosity-item-5_Hero_e41655d8-2505-4927-bc8c-0e13c4a9c95e.jpg?v=1786149218"},{"product_id":"imhof-revolving-weather-compendium-four-instruments-c-1955","title":"Imhof Revolving Weather Compendium, Four Instruments, c.1955","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFour instruments in one revolving gilt cube: an Imhof desk compendium of about 1955 that turns from clock to barometer to thermometer to hygrometer, and runs eight days on a winding.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA desk object that answers four questions: the time, the pressure, the temperature and the damp. The cube turns on its pedestal, and each quarter-turn brings a different face to the front: the clock signed ImHof, the barometer and hygrometer printed in English, French and German, and every one marked Swiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImhof of La Chaux-de-Fonds built its name on desk clocks. Behind the clock face is the calibre 244, a fifteen-jewel lever movement good for eight days at a winding, wound by a folding key and set by a knob on the back of the movement, reached by swinging the clock face open on its hinge. The three weather instruments all respond as they should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the hand it is a small piece of architecture in polished gilt brass: 79mm across the cube, 120mm to the top of the chrome finial, compact enough to sit beside an inkwell. The dials are clean on all four faces, the glasses unchipped, the swivel smooth, with light spotting to the top plate and the gilding worn through in places on the door frames.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery face works: the clock winds and runs, and the barometer, thermometer and hygrometer all read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe compendium's story is told in the rooms below; the condition and the particulars are set out beneath them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imhof","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54523078574419,"sku":"CI-0019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/imhof-gilt-brass-with-chrome-ball-finial-curiosity-item-8.jpg?v=1786183734"},{"product_id":"square-gilt-brass-alarm-clock-signed-salmon-dial-c-1938-1945","title":"Square Gilt Brass Alarm Clock, Signed Salmon Dial, c.1938-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Swiss desk alarm clock of the Art Deco years, square gilt brass with a salmon lacquer dial signed Roamer, keeping time and ringing as built.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small square clock of the late 1930s or early 1940s, brass under gilt lacquer, standing on two black feet over a flat brass base, signed for Roamer of Solothurn, to sit on a desk and get somebody up in the morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is lacquered a copper-toned salmon that reads differently with every light in the room, signed Roamer with the Swiss Made stamp beneath, with cream Arabic numerals and a slender centre hand for the alarm. The case around it is plain and architectural, straight-edged in the Deco manner, with the movement in a small drum behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a mechanical clock in full working order. It winds by hand from the keys on the back, keeps time, and the alarm rings. 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This is a large one, 56.4mm in solid 18ct gold. Yet the design is quiet: a plain polished bezel around the dial, and all of the case's decoration saved for the back, a single field of engine-turned sunburst radiating from an oval cartouche at its lower edge. That cartouche was put there for a monogram, and in more than a hundred years nobody ever cut one into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial is deep and glassy, with black Roman numerals, a fine outer minute track and subsidiary seconds at six, the signature in small black capitals across the centre. It is free of hairlines, chips and restoration. Gold poire hands with a matching gilt seconds hand, original to the watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, the gilded movement sits beneath a solid gold cuvette, hand-engraved with the maker's name, so that dial, movement and cover all speak with one voice. It winds, sets and runs as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the three signatures are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vacheron \u0026 Constantin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54589116318035,"sku":"PW-0123","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/vacheron-constantin-18ct-solid-gold-with-signed-18ct-gold-cuvette-pocket-watch-6_hero_e64cb598-51eb-433e-b27c-da10d8929fe8.jpg?v=1786743313"},{"product_id":"column-wheel-chronograph-tachymetre-and-telemetre-c-1940","title":"Column-Wheel Chronograph, Tachymetre and Telemetre, c.1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUlysse Nardin is one of the most decorated names in precision watchmaking, and here is its chronograph in miniature: a column-wheel movement beneath a silvered dial layered with tachymetre and telemetre scales, still running and honestly worn.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 41.2mm across, in bright chromed metal with a snap back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silvered dial does the work of three instruments at once. A thirty-minute recorder sits at twelve, running seconds at six, and around the edge run two printed scales, a blue tachymetre on Base 1000 and a red telemetre calibrated in kilometres, timed against blued leaf hands over bold Arabic numerals. Signed Ulysse Nardin, Le Locle \u0026amp; Genève, the printing is crisp and complete; the silver is toned and flecked with scattered dark spotting, heaviest over the two registers, the honest surface of an instrument that was carried and used rather than kept in a drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside the back are the Ulysse Nardin anchor, the country mark Suiza, the code NOA and the case number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe chronograph starts, stops and returns to zero with a clean, positive action, the minute recorder falling into line; the watch winds and sets positively, runs well, and the crystal is without a mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement, the marks and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the patent stamp and numbers are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulysse Nardin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591887507795,"sku":"PW-0124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/ulysse-nardin-chromed-base-metal-non-precious-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786752828"},{"product_id":"geneva-sealed-18ct-gold-adjusted-to-five-positions-c-1960","title":"Reference 652\/1 in 18ct Gold, Geneva-Sealed, c.1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe reference 652\/1 open face in 18ct yellow gold with the Geneva Seal: caliber 17-140 confirmed on the movement plate, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, its silvered dial in the clean mid-century style of the Calatrava era.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn open face of 42.5mm in 18ct yellow gold, the discreet format of the mid-century, its edges still sharp. It is compact beside the open faces of the generation before it, and heavier than it looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is silvered metal in the design language Patek Philippe used across its mid-century production: applied gold faceted lance indexes in place of numerals, matching gold dauphine hands, a minute track of small dots, and a subsidiary seconds dial at six with printed baton markers. It is the restrained look of the Calatrava wristwatches of the period, applied to a pocket watch. The surface is even and clean, the printing sharp, and the indexes still catch the light on their facets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is the calibre 17-140 with the Geneva Seal struck on the plate. Its engraving runs in words and figures, Eighteen (18) Jewels, Adjusted to Heat, Cold, Isochronism and Five (5) Positions, the form United States import rules required, which places this watch on the American market when new. The bridges are straight-grained, the engraving gold-filled, the rubies set in polished sinks, with an index regulator marked S and F. The back opens straight onto it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591949996371,"sku":"PW-0126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786753673"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-stainless-steel-guilloche-sub-seconds-c-1933","title":"Open Face in Stainless Steel, Two-Tone Sector Dial, c.1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Vacheron \u0026amp; Constantin in stainless steel from 1933, at a time when the house made almost everything in gold or silver. Two-tone sector dial, rose gold figures, rose gold hands. 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Under close light the surface shows the light, even mottling of ninety years, with figures and printing clear throughout; nothing has been restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe steel has aged the way the material promises to: no tarnish, no creeping patina, the original finish still present with its lustre. The crown winds and sets cleanly, the snap back opens without resistance, and it runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the three signatures and serials are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vacheron \u0026 Constantin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950061907,"sku":"PW-0128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/vacheron-constantin-stainless-steel-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786755849"},{"product_id":"18ct-gold-open-face-triple-signed-throughout-c-1945","title":"18ct Gold Open Face, Triple-Signed Throughout, c.1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeneva's oldest great house, signed three times over on the dial, the movement and the case back: an 18k gold Vacheron \u0026amp; Constantin of 1945 with a clean champagne dial, running well.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis watch dates to around 1945, the years just after the Second World War, when demand for fine Swiss dress watches was recovering across Europe and America and Vacheron was making pieces like this one: quiet, correct, and built to be kept. At 46.9mm in solid 18k gold it sits at the larger end of the mid-century gentleman's watch, substantial in the hand, with a plain polished case and nothing on the outside to announce itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe champagne dial uses the mixed layout the house favoured in this period: applied yellow gold Arabic numerals at the quarters and faceted rose gold dart markers between them, with slim gold baton hands and a sub-seconds register at six. The surface is clean throughout, with no lifting at the chapter ring, and the hands are original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe best detail is out of sight. Inside the caseback the gold is finished in perlage, overlapping circles still sharp and unmarked, on a surface only the owner ever sees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is true and the dial clean, and it winds smoothly, sets without resistance and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the three signatures are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vacheron \u0026 Constantin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950094675,"sku":"PW-0125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/vacheron-constantin-18k-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero_a7600270-d6c4-49e5-926f-b5b204e5102d.jpg?v=1786755125"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-gold-full-floral-engraving-c-1888-1890","title":"Open Face in 18ct Gold, Hand-Engraved Floral Case, c.1888-1890","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA triple-signed Patek Philippe from the heart of the Belle Epoque: dial, movement, and factory-engraved cuvette all carry the house signature and serial 82758. The 18ct gold case back is hand-engraved with a floral spray on a matted ground, the white enamel dial is bright and original, and it runs well.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a Patek Philippe of the late 1880s, and its case back is the centrepiece. The back is hand-engraved with a spray of five-petalled blossoms and leaves inside a plain polished border: each flower outlined and shaded with the graver, the ground between them cut to a fine cross-hatched matt so the bright petals stand out against it. The engraving is still crisp, with the graver cuts sharp at the petal edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the watch keeps pace. The white enamel dial is original and unrestored, slim black Roman numerals inside a railway minute track numbered every five minutes, the early PATEK, PHILIPPE \u0026amp; Co signature above the centre. The hands are gold lozenge pattern, the open diamond form the house used through the late nineteenth century, with a blued steel hand in the sub-seconds at six. Under magnification a single fine hairline runs from the centre arbor down to the sub-seconds rim; it is stable, hard to find at arm's length, and the only mark on an otherwise bright, glassy surface. At 48.7mm it has the full presence of a Victorian gentleman's watch, and the pendant push-piece and hinge still work with the clean action of a well-kept case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unrestored, and it winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the three signatures and the factory-engraved cuvette are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950127443,"sku":"PW-0131","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_Hero_4b98aef9-4d44-4417-a6e9-c8d056099557.jpg?v=1787742075"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-two-tone-gold-brock-company-c-1931","title":"Open Face in 18ct Two-Tone Gold, Brock \u0026 Company, c.1931","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 18ct two-tone Patek Philippe, white gold case with yellow gold bands at the bezel and caseback, with the Brock and Company Los Angeles signature engraved on the movement bridge. A Patek Philippe Genève leather pouch and a period two-tone chain are included.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is 18ct gold in two colours, the body in white gold with yellow gold bands at the bezel and caseback, the contrast fully preserved. The brushed satin surfaces carry it well, and at 43.7mm the watch sits in the hand at exactly the scale the Art Deco years favoured: neither grand nor slight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement bridge is engraved Brock and Company. George Brock opened his jewellery house in Los Angeles in 1903, and over six decades it became one of the city's leading jewellers, with Mary Pickford among its clients, and an authorised Patek Philippe retailer. The firm was sold in 1964 and its stock wound down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silvered dial is original and carries more detail than a first glance suggests. The numerals are applied stylised Breguet figures in the Art Deco cut, and each has aged to its own colour, copper on the eight, plum on the seven, violet on the three. The hands are the matching Breguet pattern with the open ring near the tip, the minute track is a ring of raised pearl dots, and the sub-seconds register at six has an engine-turned centre with light spotting. The signature reads Geneva, Switzerland in English rather than Genève, the export form for the American market, which fits the Brock and Company bridge exactly. Nothing has been repainted or restored. It winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the retailer signature, the serials and the accompanying pouch and chain are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950160211,"sku":"PW-0132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18k-two-tone-gold-pocket-watch-v2-1_hero.jpg?v=1792012798"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-gold-american-market-c-1937","title":"Open Face in 18ct Gold, American Market, c.1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe of about 1937 in 18-carat gold, its original silvered dial carrying applied Breguet numerals that have each toned to their own colour, with a movement made for the American market and engraved with the US import code PXP.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1930s Patek Philippe had been making pocket watches in Geneva for nearly a century. This is an open face of 43.9mm in 18 carat gold, made around 1937 to the maker's full standard, with nothing on the dial beyond hours, minutes and a subsidiary seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is original silvered metal with a subsidiary seconds register at six and a minute track of small raised dots. The numerals are applied Breguet style Arabic figures, and the gold hands match them, each drawn to a fine point with an open ring near the tip. The gilt of the numerals has oxidised over ninety years, and not evenly: each figure has taken its own colour, copper on the three, sea green on the four, a faint violet sheen on the nine. Nothing here has been repainted or replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crystal is clear, the crown winds and sets correctly, and the movement runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the PXP code and how to request an Extract from the Archives are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950192979,"sku":"PW-0133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18k-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1787310998"},{"product_id":"prince-imperial-31-victoires-de-haute-precision-c-1930","title":"Prince Imperial, 31 Victoires de Haute Precision, c.1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Rolex Prince Imperial in stainless steel, its caseback stamped inside with 31 Victoires de Haute Précision, Genève Suisse: the count of precision records Rolex claimed when it was made. The salmon dial is clean, original and exceptional.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Prince Imperial carried the Prince name into Rolex's pocket watches, and this is its round form: a full chapter ring with the seconds register sunk at six, the whole dial a study in controlled proportion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the exceptional thing about this example. The salmon lacquer is deep and even, the guilloché texture of the seconds register intact, the Roman numerals at twelve, three and nine sharp between their baton markers, the blued steel hands original and straight. Prince dials are fragile objects that have had ninety years to go wrong, to fade, to be repainted or replaced, and this one keeps its original finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside the caseback Rolex stamped its house claim of the time, 31 Victoires de Haute Précision: the running count of precision records it claimed from timing trials such as Kew and Neuchâtel. The figure rose over the years, and 31 places this case in the later 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch winds, sets and runs correctly, and it comes with its Albert curb-link chain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the caseback stamp is recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950225747,"sku":"PW-0130","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/rolex-stainless-steel-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786758782"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-platinum-calibre-sapphire-border-geneva-seal-c-1929","title":"Open Face in Platinum, Calibré Sapphire Border, Geneva Seal, c.1929","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the workshops of Niton, Geneva craftsmen whose movements were commissioned by Patek Philippe and Cartier, a dress watch in platinum with calibré sapphires set around the full circumference of the case and the bow, and a cabochon sapphire on the crown tip. The movement carries the Poinçon de Genève.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the fine Geneva workshops of the 1920s, Niton was founded in 1919 by craftsmen trained at Vacheron Constantin, and it made movements for other houses: Patek Philippe commissioned from it, as did Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels. Nearly three quarters of Niton's known production earned the Geneva Seal. This movement carries it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is platinum, plain polished, 41mm across, and the setting is what sets the watch apart: a border of deep blue calibré-cut sapphires runs the full circumference of the case middle, continues over the bow, and finishes in a single cabochon on the tip of the crown. For all of that, it is a quiet object. The richness is held inside a strict Art Deco line, a fully gem-set watch that makes no effort to announce itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the silvered dial, with its bold Breguet numerals and blued steel Breguet hands, the retailer's name stands in place of the maker's: Walser, Wald y Cia, Buenos Aires. Walser Wald were among the most respected Patek Philippe agents of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is complete. Every sapphire is present, the dial and the sapphire-tipped crown are original, and the movement, numbered 9942, carries the seal of the Canton of Geneva on its plate. It winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the Buenos Aires retailer signature is recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Niton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54592374899027,"sku":"PW-0134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/niton-platinum-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786759422"},{"product_id":"18ct-gold-column-wheel-chronograph-named-january-1913","title":"18ct Gold Column Wheel Chronograph, Named, January 1913","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA column wheel chronograph by Patek, Philippe \u0026amp; Cie in 18 carat gold, named and dated on the 9th of January 1913. Over a century later, every function works: seconds, chronograph and 30-minute register.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chronograph of 49.1mm in 18 carat yellow gold, made by Patek, Philippe \u0026amp; Cie in the years around 1906 to 1909, and named in 1913. On the gold inner cover, below the maker's engraved signature and the movement number, is a name in period script and a date: P. Grandvarlet, 9 Janvier 1913.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody chose this watch carefully. It came from Geneva while the firm still wore its older identity, the comma in the name on the dial, and it was not a casual decision: a column wheel chronograph in a full gold case was a costly watch in 1913. Who Grandvarlet was, and what the occasion was, the watch does not say. It has simply been kept well, for a very long time, by people who understood what it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial is the original, with Breguet Arabic numerals, running seconds at six and the thirty-minute recorder at twelve, under the ornate gold scrolled hands Patek fitted to movements of this grade. It is intact everywhere: no chips, no hairlines, no restoration. The case is generous even for its era, a proper hand-filling watch, its hinged back opening cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it still does everything it was built to do. It winds, sets and runs; the chronograph starts, stops and returns to zero with the recorder advancing as it should, more than a century on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the inscription is shown in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54592617939283,"sku":"PW-0129","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-cie-gen-ve-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786759974"},{"product_id":"self-winding-perpetuelle-platinum-weight-c-1930","title":"Self-Winding Perpétuelle, Platinum Weight, c.1930","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe self-winding watch Breguet invented in the 1780s, built again by the house itself a century and a half later. An 18ct gold Perpétuelle with a platinum winding weight, its running reserve read off the dial.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn open-face watch in 18ct gold, 48.34mm across and 91.1 grams in the hand, engine-turned across the bezel, the band and the hinged back that lifts to the movement, the back worked around a plain polished cartouche, with the pendant and bow left in polished gold. It is a Perpétuelle, a watch that winds itself from the motion of being carried, and that word is the whole story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-winding was Abraham-Louis Breguet's founding trick, the invention that made his name in Paris in the 1780s, and for most of a century afterwards the house let it rest. Then, in 1921, Sir David Salomons published his monograph on Breguet and reminded the world, and the firm itself, of what the old man had actually done. In the years that followed, the house answered with a small run of new Perpétuelles built in honour of its own beginning, and this is one of them: No. 2176, made around 1930, bracketed in the series by No. 1648 of 1928 and No. 2492 of 1932. The movements for the run came from Les Fils de V. Piguet in the Vallée de Joux, then trusted with the most demanding complicated work in Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silvered dial is guilloché throughout, worked in a tighter weave at the centre than the case carries, with a plain satin band holding the Roman hours and a beaded minute track just inside it. Hours and minutes sit a little high of centre, read by blued steel hands in the moon-tipped Breguet pattern, and beneath them a separately pivoted hand sweeps an arc graduated to fifty, showing how much running reserve the motion of the day has stored. A subsidiary seconds turns in its own guilloché ring at six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the other side of the hinged back, the self-winding weight rides on its own pivot at the top of the movement, and it is cut in platinum: the densest metal for the job, on a watch whose whole purpose is that weight's quiet travel. It winds and sets correctly from the gold pendant crown, and it runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house's own registers know this watch: sold new on the 21st of February 1933 to a Monsieur Lenoir, for 10,000 francs. It has come through the ninety years since complete, matching and original, the number struck on caseback, cuvette and movement, and the caseback's central cartouche, the panel left for an owner's monogram, never engraved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the register entry, confirmed by the house, is set out in The Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breguet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54616485462355,"sku":"PW-0140","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/breguet-18ct-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero_bdbd71ed-a2e9-407e-8110-12060fd509dc.jpg?v=1787071824"},{"product_id":"18ct-gold-art-deco-enamel-dial-with-period-chain-c-1920s","title":"18ct Gold, Art Deco Enamel Dial, with Period Chain, c.1920s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 18k gold Movado from the 1920s, made for the Spanish-speaking market. White enamel dial, Geneva-stripe movement with gold chatons, and a period two-tone gold chain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a mid-size open-face Movado in solid 18k yellow gold, dated to the 1920s by its dial style and case construction. The dial reads \"MOVADO SUIZA\" in neat serif capitals, with \"Suiza\" being the Spanish word for Switzerland: a marking that places this watch's original sale in Spain or Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is plain polished gold, cleanly proportioned, with a thin bezel, short pendant and a flush-closing back. The back is completely plain: no monogram, no engine-turning, no engraving of any kind. The gold has the even, light wear of a piece that was carried but not mistreated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial is one of the strongest features. It is intact, free of hairlines, chips or restoration. The numerals are sharp-angled Art Deco Arabic figures in black, cut at geometric angles in the manner of the 1920s. These are not the round, traditional Arabic numerals found on most pocket watches of the period: they are graphic, angular, unmistakably Deco, and they give the dial a clean visual weight. The hands are Art Deco pierced steel with open rectangular apertures, oxidized to a dark tone that reads clearly against the white enamel. The subsidiary seconds dial sits at six o'clock with its own fine minute track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is nickel-finished with Geneva stripes, signed \"MOVADO\" on the barrel bridge. It is clean and unworn, the stripes still sharp, and it runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch comes with a two-tone bar-link gold fob chain, alternating yellow and white sections, with a spring ring clasp. The chain is a period piece but not original to this watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Movado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54739337150803,"sku":"PW-0111","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/movado-18k-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1787767461"},{"product_id":"a-lange-sohne-two-day-marine-chronometer-c-1943","title":"A. Lange \u0026 Söhne Two-Day Marine Chronometer, c.1943","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA two-day marine chronometer by A. Lange \u0026amp; Söhne of Glashütte, made in 1943, No. 5159 of about 800 in Lange's wartime standard series. Spring detent escapement, chain-and-fusee, and a 56-hour up-and-down dial, running and complete in its mahogany box with the winding key.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. Lange \u0026amp; Söhne built its reputation on precision, and the marine chronometer was the instrument where that precision mattered most. This is one of them: a two-day chronometer made in Glashütte in 1943, gimbal-mounted in a brass bowl and housed in a mahogany box with a glazed lid, as it would have been issued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt belongs to the standardized wartime series Lange began that year, and it is the 159th of that run. The instrument is complete: 5159 appears on the movement and the dial, 159 on the dust ring and 1159 inside the bowl, and it has a brass bowl rather than the bakelite fitted to most examples of the period, along with its winding key on the bracket inside the lid. It runs, winds and sets as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial carries everything a navigator needed and nothing he did not: silvered, with clear black numerals, running seconds, and a 56-hour up-and-down indicator that showed how much of the two-day reserve remained. 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Art Deco geometry was running through everything on the jeweller's counter, wristwatches, cigarette cases, vanity cases, and the dress pocket watch with them, cut as octagons, cushions and rarer outlines like this one. The case is cut with six straight sides, the outline the period trade called a tombstone, taller than it is wide, with the gold bow passing straight through the top edge rather than hanging from a round pendant. There is no ornament beyond the geometry itself: a plain polished bezel, flat polished gold, and edges that still meet crisply a century on. On this watch the shape is the point, and everything else is built to serve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial holds the same discipline. It is silvered with a fine grained finish that shifts in raking light, and the numerals are applied gold Arabics in the tall, narrow style of the decade, drawn out to follow the case rather than fight it. A railroad minute track runs inside them and a sub-seconds register sits at six. Nothing on the front is printed where it could be built: the numerals stand proud of the silver in solid gold, and the hands are gold too, each pierced with an open lozenge near the tip. The crown is fluted gold, small and correct for a dress watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back is a plain polished field with a single engraving at its centre: three interlaced letters in an angular Art Deco hand, cut in the same straight-edged style as the case, so the initials read as part of the design rather than an afterthought. They have not been identified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flat surfaces catch light differently from a round case, in planes rather than a single curve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bailey Banks \u0026 Biddle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54797530661203,"sku":"PW-0127","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/bailey-banks-biddle-co-18k-solid-gold-pocket-watch-21_403dfde7-84f4-487e-80c0-768be1a90f3f.jpg?v=1788110880"},{"product_id":"reference-600-in-18ct-gold-triple-signed-c-1950","title":"Reference 600 in 18ct Gold, Triple-Signed, c.1953","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe reference 600 in solid 18ct gold, signed three times over: on the dial, across the movement and inside the case. A plain open-face design with a Geneva-sealed caliber 17-140 behind the dial.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis reference 600 was made around 1953 and finished throughout to Patek Philippe's full standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is solid 18ct gold, 41.55mm, with a slim polished bezel and an unbroken back. The back was never engraved, so the lines of the case are as they left Geneva. The gold carries only the even, light patina of careful handling and has not been polished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the heart of it. Silvered and satin-finished, it carries applied faceted gold baton markers, doubled at twelve, faceted gold dauphine hands, a dot minute track, and a subsidiary seconds dial sunk at six with its centre engine-turned in fine circles, the signature set out in fine, restrained printing: Patek Philippe, Genève, beneath twelve. The hands are original to the watch. The dial is original and unrestored, free of hairlines, with light scattered spotting, mostly towards the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the dial the restraint gives way entirely. The caliber 17-140 is a full Patek movement of eighteen jewels, adjusted to five positions and struck with the Geneva seal, finished to a level that owes nothing to the simplicity of the watch's face. It runs, winds and sets precisely as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54797944947027,"sku":"PW-0141","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-600-gold-pocket-watch-c1950-1_hero.jpg?v=1792012767"},{"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 on a presentation watch it names the giver rather than the owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is a full hunter of 48.53mm in solid 14ct gold, struck inside with the Swiss squirrel for 14ct. 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 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 quarters and dots at the other five-minute marks, and a sunk subsidiary seconds ring above six. The hands are pierced, scrolled Louis XV work in gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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"},{"product_id":"gold-and-enamel-verge-with-split-pearl-border-c-1790-1800","title":"Gold and Enamel Verge with Split Pearl Border, c.1790-1800","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA gold and enamel verge signed Berthoud à Paris, No. 11711. On its back, an offering at the altar of Love, painted in enamel and framed in split pearls.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scene is the reason this watch exists. On the back, within a raised gold frame, a young woman in a yellow tunic tied with a blue sash stands before a garlanded altar, a basket of flowers on her arm, a lamb on a blue ribbon at her heel and a small child at her side. Flowers are heaped on the altar. One dove sits among them, another hovers above with wings spread, and the two touch beaks. Behind, on the right, is a round colonnaded temple. It is an offering at the altar of Love: the billing doves are the birds of Venus, the round temple is the Temple of Love of the period's gardens, and the girl brings what a shepherdess had to give, flowers and a lamb. The subject was a favourite of Paris print-sellers in the 1770s and 80s, in pastorals after Jean-Baptiste Huet and in the Greek-dressed offerings after Vien, and the enamel painters who worked for the Paris trade drew on those prints freely. The painting is unsigned, as watch-case enamels of this date nearly always are. The painter has set it against a cream enamel ground laid over engine turning, so the sky radiates faintly from behind the figures. Around it runs a border of split pearls, green enamel leaves and dots of translucent blue, complete, and around that a chased band of laurel. The small gold stud at the border's edge is the latch that opens the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe front is quieter. A white enamel dial with painted Arabic numerals and blued steel hands, wound with a key through the small aperture at 2, in the French manner. The pendant is a T-bar with a folding bow, and the band of that bow is engraved with digits matching the number inside the watch: case and movement have kept each other's company since the workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe movement is a gilt full plate verge, its bridge cock pierced and engraved, with a silvered rosette regulator disc lettered A and R for avance and retard. It is signed in script, Berthoud, A Paris, No. 11711, and it winds, sets and runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt some point in its French life, after 1838 by the mark it carries, the watch was fitted with a glazed silver gilt outer case, a plain working shell with glass on both sides, so the enamel could be seen without being handled. The gilding on that case is rubbed from use. The enamel it was made to protect is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berthoud, Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54863961620819,"sku":"PW-0146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/berthoud-paris-gold-back-set-with-a-painted-enamel-scene-within-a-border-of-split-pearls-green-enamel-leaves-and-blue-enamel-dots-silver-gilt-glazed-outer-case-pocket-watch-2_hero.jpg?v=1788606817"},{"product_id":"bell-struck-quarter-repeater-in-later-dutch-silver-c-1710","title":"Bell-Struck Quarter Repeater in Later Dutch Silver, c.1710","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA quarter-repeating verge watch that strikes the hours and quarters on a bell, signed Fromanteel \u0026amp; Clarke, the Anglo-Dutch house descended from the maker of Britain's first pendulum clocks. Arcaded white enamel dial and gilt fleur and scroll hands, in later Dutch silver.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWork the slide set into the case band and it strikes the hour on a bell, then the quarters. The case band is pierced with frets so that the bell can be heard. It is large, a full 61mm across, open-faced and wound by key, with no crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is white enamel in the arcaded manner, black Roman hours within a scalloped chapter and an outer ring of Arabic minutes counted in fives, each figure set in a shallow wave. Gilt hands sit over it, the hour a chased fleur-de-lis, the minute a scroll running out to a fine point, cast and dressed by hand. The enamel carries the hairlines of its age and a small loss beside the centre, set down plainly in the condition report; the black on white still reads at a glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the back is the work that matters. A full gilt plate fills the case, and over the balance sits a cock pierced and engraved edge to edge with foliage, a silvered regulator disc numbered beside it. The gilt band around the movement is engraved too, a running frieze of birds and scrollwork meant for whoever opened the watch and no one else. The repeat train and its rack sit within, driving the hammer to the bell, which is mounted over the movement and struck on its rim. Across the plate runs the signature, in flowing script, Fromanteel \u0026amp; Clarke. An engraved W keeps it company, a workshop hand that left no fuller name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe silver that holds all this is younger than the movement. Its marks are Dutch, struck after 1814, so at some point in Holland the old watch was given fresh cases and kept in use, which for an Anglo-Dutch maker is a fitting place to have ended up. That is the honest shape of the piece: an early bell-striking repeater with a later dial, in later Dutch silver, working and together. The marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fromanteel \u0026 Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54920441266515,"sku":"PW-0143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/fromanteel-clarke-silver-pocket-watch-1.jpg?v=1789157517"},{"product_id":"spring-detent-chronometer-no-1000-c-1870","title":"Spring Detent Chronometer, No. 1000, c.1870","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA key-wound pocket chronometer signed Frodsham, London, numbered 1000: spring detent, helical spring and compensation balance, the specification of a marine chronometer in a watch to be carried.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe point of this watch is under the cock. Where a lever watch carries a flat spring, this one carries a blued steel helical spring standing on the balance staff in a small coiled column, and beneath it a spring detent that releases the escape wheel once for every swing of the balance in one direction only. Wound and set down, it does what a chronometer does: the seconds hand steps forward in halves, a distinct beat with a pause in it, and the balance, a cut bimetallic rim carrying its timing screws, swings wide and slow. It is the escapement of the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/a-lange-sohne-two-day-marine-chronometer-c-1943\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.5px;text-underline-offset:3px\"\u003eship's box chronometer\u003c\/a\u003e, scaled to the pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was made on the Continent in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the years when the English market bought chronometer-grade movements from the Swiss workshops and had them finished and signed for London. The frosted gilt three-quarter plate, the screwed gold chatons, the long tapered cock with its Breguet-style index, and the plate signed in copperplate script, Frodsham, London, N° 1000, all belong to that trade. The regulator is engraved Fast and Slow in English, for an English hand. This watch carries the name in the form the trade used: surname, city and number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the London style of the day, white enamel with black Roman numerals, an outer minute track and a sunk seconds ring at six. The hands are blued steel, a pear-shaped hour hand and a plain tapering minute hand, oxidised now to a deep plum. The face is bright and clean, with a single faint mark out near the 3 that reads as surface rather than damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is the one the movement was born in: an open face in white metal, 50.95mm across, with a hinged bezel, a hinged back and a cuvette pierced for the two keys, unmarked in the continental way. It shows light scratching on the back and a touch of verdigris at the bow joint, and closes as it should at bezel, back and cuvette. The pendant carries a smooth knob and an oval bow; the winding is done through the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frodsham, London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54927457845587,"sku":"PW-0148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/frodsham-london-nickel-silver-white-metal-unmarked-original-to-the-movement-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1789252531"}],"url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/collections\/the-exhibition.oembed","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}