Austrian Art Nouveau-style hunting cased pocket watch Circa 1915

Gold, enamel and pearl-set lever watch by La Maison zum Defregger
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An Austrian 14K gold and enamel hunting cased ornamental Art Nouveau-style pocket watch studded with half pearls, circa 1915.
The case front with a polychrome enamel portrait of a young lady with a laurel wreath on her head playing the lyre, a painted alpine riverscape on the back, half pearl-set bezels on both sides and a gold dome. White enamel dial with Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and spade hands. Signed frosted gilt bridge movement with screwed chatons, 16 jewels, screw compensation balance.
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Diameter: 45 mm
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Weight: 63 g
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Signed: Logic
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The company, La Maison zum Defregger, was founded by Anton Rix and was located at Praterstrasse 16, Vienna. On December 29th, 1870, it was named Anton Rix in the community newspaper. In a later newspaper ‘Kladderadatsch’, a humoristic-satirical weekly paper, there also is an advertisement for the company from 1872. In 1928 the company was located in Kärntnerstraße 35 and called ‘Kunstgewerbehaus Anton Rix zum Defregger’, trading in Viennese souvenir articles, leather goods, travel accessories, bronzes, jewellery and smoking utensils. The company was also a yard supplier as a clothing store. Anton Rix had various protected watch brands deposited ‘Defregger’ and ‘Anton Rix’ on May 20th, 1912 and ‘Logic’, ‘Rix’, ‘Rixia’ and ‘Zum Defregger’ on April 9th, 1914.