Austrian gold grande sonnerie repeating watch with carillon Circa 1910

Gold full hunter by Friedrich Baumann
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A very fine and historically interesting Austrian 18 carat gold hunting cased grande sonnerie and trip minute repeating pocket watch with carillon according to the patent by César Racine, circa 1910. Glazed ½ plate movement, three hammers, three gongs, Swiss Patent 18543 – César Racine: Perfectionnement au mécanisme des pièces d’horlogerie à grande sonnerie (Improvement of the mechanism for timepieces with grande sonnerie), two barrels wound through a racking bar, tandem winding with mirror polished click on the top, gold screw compensation balance. For the minute repeater and the quarter hour strike grande sonnerie the three hammers strike on three different gongs. White enamel dial with Roman hours, outer minute divisions and subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock. Plain case with the engraved Cyrillic cypher of Ferdinand I, King of Bulgaria, the royal Bulgarian crown above and framed by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the case back is engraved with the coat of arms of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, maker’s mark G/BH for G. Borel-Huguenin.
Dial signed, case numbered, cuvette signed and numbered. Comes with the original mahogany presentation box with mother of pearl inlay.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Weight: 142 g
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Signed: F. Baumann Wien
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Watchmaker Friedrich Baumann in Vienna carried the royal appointments of the Austro-Hungarian Court, the royal Greek and the royal Bulgarian courts and was a certified appraiser. Between 1882 and 1906 he was awarded numerous gold medals and first prizes at the exhibitions in Trieste, Vienna, Paris, Plovdiv in Bulgaria, Athens, Saint Petersburg and London.
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Ferdinand I was born on February 26, 1861, as Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was the second monarch of the Third Bulgarian State, first as ruling prince (knyaz) from 1887 to 1908, and later as king (tsar) from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. Under his rule, Bulgaria entered the First World War on the side of the Central Powers in 1915. After his abdication, Ferdinand returned to live in Coburg in Germany. He died in Bürglaß-Schlösschen on September 10, 1948, in Coburg, the cradle of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty. Ferdinand was the last surviving grandchild of Louis-Philippe of France; his final wish was to be buried in Bulgaria.