Swiss gold with split seconds chronograph Circa 1895

Pink gold open face pocket watch
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Very fine, pink-gold split seconds chronograph with register, circa 1895.
A 14 carat pink gold pocket watch, matching number 34427 on the case and movement.
A very fine split second chronograph with screwed golden chatons and fine regulation, split second chronographes with register display are very rare.
Signed and numbered main plate, undamaged preserved.  Original, signed enamel dial with 30-minutes-recorder, blued steel hands.
Very well kept with old watch box, fine collector’s watch.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Weight: 105 g
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Signed:  Charles-Léon Guinand   a Locle
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The company Guinand belonged to the best known Swiss manufacturers of complicated chronographs around 1900.
The Guinand brand originated more than 150 years ago in the small idyllic Swiss village of Les Brenets in the canton of Neuchâtel.
There the two brothers Julien-Alcide and Charles-Léon Guinand started their business on 21 April 1865. Under the name of Guinand Frères,
they started manufacture and sales of watches.
With the advice of their cousin and customer, Julien Gallet from Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Léon Guinand developed and manufactured his own chronograph