Gold-Filled Full Hunter, White Enamel Dial, c.1910-1925
An anonymous Swiss full hunter pocket watch of c.1910-1925, housed in a gold-filled case stamped GARANTIE 10 ANS. The inner face of the cuvette is finished with overlapping circular graining.
Both covers are struck inside with the case number 750-4363, and the cuvette and both covers carry the matching assembly number 25. The front cover also carries a small triangle enclosing an X. The ten-year guarantee on the gold covering is struck in a navette cartouche on the cuvette. The case has a fluted crown and a stepped back bezel.
The white enamel dial has sloping Arabic numerals with an outsize 12, square five-minute markers, a sub-seconds register at six o'clock with a railway track numbered 10 to 60, and slender gilt hands, the hour hand of pear shape. There are hairline cracks in the enamel consistent with the watch's age. The case exterior carries light surface scratches, with green deposits in the bezel grooves and at the hinge.
Inside, a gilt lever movement with a separate barrel bridge, a shaped train bridge and an engraved balance cock. The screwed compensation balance has a flat hairspring, and the regulator index runs to an F and S scale on the train bridge. Winds smoothly, sets cleanly, and runs with good accuracy.
