Fine Swiss lever watch in a silver full hunter case Circa 1860

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A fine Swiss lever in a silver full hunter case Circa 1860

Kenmerk: PA0306
Diameter: 56 mm

Estimate: € 400 - 800
Price sold: € 750

Large silver hunter cased lever

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A fine Swiss lever in a silver full hunter case, circa 1860. Key wind nickelled bar movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, its index on the curved section of the main bridge. Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. Club foot straight line lever escapement, escape pivots with end stones on a gold setting. Signed white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, slender Roman numerals and blueed steel hands. Substantial engine turned silver full hunter case, rope bezels with flat covers. Gold hinges, thumbpiece and flat button. Maker’s mark ‘CHs Tissot and Sons – Locle – Warranted Coin’.
Wound and set through the signed and numbered silver cuvette.

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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: W.J. Yeoman Waukegau Ills
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An early example of Tissot’s work made in Switzerland expressly for this American retailer, being signed on case, dial and movement. The Yeomans were evidently successful and innovative as shown by an extract from Amsterdam NY Evening Recorder and Daily Democrat of November 17th 1910. As a wedding present to his new bride Louis Yeoman installed electricity throughout his mansion, including an elevator. The writer notes that the house will ‘not only be the wonder of Lake county but will attract curiosity seekers even from Chicago itself’.

Signed: W.J. Yeoman Waukegau Ills