Swiss gold repeating lever with superior adjustment Circa 1900

Rose gold minute repeating dress watch by Meylan
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A very fine Swiss 18-carat rose gold minute repeating keyless lever dress watch with superior adjustment, circa 1900. Nickel-silver Superior movement with Geneva striping, 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 micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide in the band. Gold hinged cuvette engraved Sir Frank B. Hill Chairman Triennial Committee 25th Triennial Conclave Denver Colo. 1892. Double sunk white enamel dial with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track with red Arabic 5 minute markers, subsidiary seconds dial, and original blued steel spade hands. Polished case. 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.