Swiss 18K rose gold repeating lever dress watch Circa 1900

Rose gold keyless lever minute repeater by Meylan
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A very fine Swiss 18 carat rose gold open faced minute repeating keyless lever dress watch with superior adjustment, circa 1900. Superior nickel-silver movement, Geneva striping decoration, 30 jewels including four in gold chatons, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometre regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide in the band. Double-sunk white enamel dial with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track with red Arabic five-minute markers, subsidiary seconds and original blued steel spade hands. Solid case, polished. Gold hinged cuvette engraved Sir Frank B. Hill Chairman Triennial Committee 25th Triennial Conclave Denver Colo. 1892. Dial and movement signed, case numbered.
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Diameter: 47 mm
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Signed: C.H. Meylan & Co Brassus
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Charles Henry Meylan. C.H. Meylan Watch & Co was founded in Le Brassus in 1880. Charles Henry Meylan was an eminent watchmaker, well known both in the United States and in Switzerland. In 1894, he was awarded the ‘Premier prix de réglage de l’Observatoire de Genève’. He made high-quality watches with complications, flat and extra flat watches and chronometers.