English 18K gold open faced pocket chronometer Circa 1844

Fine gold open-faced pocket chronometer
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An English fine gold open-faced pocket chronometer, circa 1844, gilded full plate movement, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement, train with ruby jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, ruby endstone, spiral spring with double overcoil, fusee and chain with maintaining power, signed Charles Cummins, London.
Gold dial, satin-finished chapter ring, Roman numerals, outer pearled minute ring, the center decoratively engraved with flowers and leaves, engine-turned subsidiary seconds, blued steel fleur-de-lys hands.
Gold case, the back engraved with scrolling foliage and flowers, centered with a plain reserve, plain gold cuvette with winding aperture, case back and cuvette with maker’s mark GH within cameo for Gustavus Huguenin,

Diameter: 49 mm
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Signed: Charles Cummins London
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Charles Cummins was apprenticed to his father, Thomas in 1832. Like his father, Charles appears to have specialized in very high-grade watches. Few watches by this maker are known, however, a very similar watch by Charles Cummins is lot 64 in this auction and Cecil Clutton describes and illustrates a third in his book “Collector’s Collection”, published by the Antiquarian Horological Society in 1974.