Unique German 18K rose gold Renaissance watch Circa 1894-1904

High-quality full hunter by Carl Naab
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A unique, high-quality German 18 carat rose gold, silver and enamel hunting cased Renaissance pocket watch, circa 1894-1904. The movement is a unique work of the former student of the German watchmaking school Glashütte, in which a Longines ebauche calibre 19.58 was refined excellently, the plate refinement consists of solid white and rose gold, the gold chatons are equipped with diamond end-stones, fine adjusting device made in the form of an anchor. The cuvette is a very fine piece of goldsmith’s work in rose gold and silver and represents the Naab family crest. White enamel dial with black Roman hours and red Arabic minutes and subsidiary seconds, rose gold hands. Extremely heavy case with Renaissance motifs, the back with an enamel portrait of Emma Naab, the watchmaker’s mother, the year of her death 1904 is engraved in the rose gold floral rim, the spring lid similarly made, also a fine enamel painting showing Emma Naab at a young age, both lids have a screwed gold inlay with engraved family data of Carl Naab’s parents, the spring lid shows the data of his daughter, named after his mother Emma, born in 1898. Cuvette signed, the movement plate bares both the marking BA 1894 and the written signature Carl Naab.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Weight: 190 g
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Signed: Carl Naab
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Carl Naab was a student of the German Watchmaking School Glashütte from 1880 to 1882.
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Carl Friedrich Jakob Naab was born on 8 December 1861 in Annweiler/Landau in the Palatinate as son of Carl Naab and his second wife Emma Rosalie Wolff (1838-1904). Carl Friedrich Jakob Naab and his father were also called ‘Karl’ in archives, but ‘Carl’ can be clearly read in the watch here. The eighteen-year-old Karl Naab was trained as a watchmaker from October 1, 1880, to April 30, 1882, with number 73 at the German Watchmaking School Glashütte. Carl married Luise Bartz on August 28, 1897 in Annweiler, Palatinate. From this marriage, daughter Emma Naab was born on 29 June 1898. Carl Friedrich Jakob Naab died in 1918 in Annweiler and became 57 years old.
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It is believed that this is a commemorative watch of the watchmaker to his mother, which he later gave away to his daughter. Carl Naab must have had an incredibly close relationship to his mother, who raised him alone, because his father had died before he was born. It is known from the family chronicle that there was also a second watch in which Carl Naab coped with the death of his mother.
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Quote: “A pocket watch in gold, engraved on the lid with the Naab coat of arms. Inside, in the tiniest execution, lifelike, in gold, the death chamber of his mother is reproduced, with a coffin in which her heart lies. Everything worked with a magnifying glass”.