Swiss gold lever with double sided calendar Circa 1890

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A Swiss gold hunting cased lever pocket watch with double sided calendar, circa 1890. Keyless nickelled anti magnetic bar movement with going barrel, plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with Paillard overcoil hairspring and club foot lever escapement. Silvered dial with applied gold Roman hours, subsidiary seconds and blue steel hands, the phase of the moon is indicated through an aperture in the centre of the dial on a blue steel and gold disc, the other calendar indications are on the other side of the watch under a sprung hunter cover and glazed gold bezel, the days of the week and date shown by a single pierced gilt hand and the month in a rectangular aperture, the number of the days in each month are also given and the outer silvered ring indicating the day can be rotated by a thumb wheel to align the correct day with the date, the date changed automatically by a pawl on the movement. Rare plain case, black champlevé enamel monogram on the sprung back cover opened by depressing a button in the crown.

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Diameter: 51 mm
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Signed: No name

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It is very unusual to find one of these calendar movements in a gold case. The majority are gunmetal or sometimes silver. The movement is marked ‘Spiral et Balancier non Magnetiques – Brevete Paillard S.D.G.D.’.