Fine Swiss silver half hunting cased pocket watch Circa 1880

Silver open faced cylinder pocket watch
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A Swiss silver, half hunting cased, keyless pocket watch by Pateck, Geneva, circa 1880. The cover and caseback are engraved with stylized foliage and geometric patterns. The cover is engraved with blue enamelled radial Roman numerals, and the case has engraved initials CF, Geneva or Neuchâtel mountains. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6 and blued steel Pear hands. A gilt brass, ¾ plate movement, going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index regulator. The dial and movement are signed.
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Diameter: 43 mm
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Weight: 66 g
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Signed: Pateck, Geneva (not Patek Philippe)
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It is interesting to note that the coat of arms, flanked by two supporters, a standing (rampant) lion and a standing (rampant) unicorn, surmounted by a closed royal crown (crest), stamped on the plate of the movement bears in English, in addition to the mention Pateck Geneva, the names India and China. The coat of arms is strangely reminiscent of that of the Kingdom of Great Britain, so that the customer may think that this brand is an official supplier to that country and the other two mentioned.
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It is quite obvious that all this is a lowly mercantile deception, making the natives of distant countries believe that this watch is produced by the manufacture Patek, Philippe & Co., founded in Geneva in 1839, which, at the time of the creation of this watch, with its apocryphal signature, already enjoyed a great reputation.
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From that time onwards, the directors of the honourable Genevan factory took legal action against these counterfeiters, in particular the Armand Schwob & Frères company of La Chaux de Fonds, who dared to present a watch signed Pateck à Genève at the 1885 Universal Exhibition in Antwerp; the jury discovered it on July 9 during the inspection of the showcases of the firm from the Neuchâtel mountains. A trial followed, which lasted 20 years.