Rare Swiss silver hunting cased presentation watch Circa 1910

Silver pocket watch by Union Horlogère 
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A Swiss silver hunting cased keyless pocket watch, circa 1910. Union Horlogère pocket watch retailed by F. Schwenkau & Jnh. A. Bauer, Königl Hoflieferant (Royal Purveyor). Made for presentation by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The back cover is engraved with the cypher of Wilhelm II, and the front cover is engraved with a foliate letter W beneath a crown, of the cypher of Wilhelm II. Hinged silver cuvette. White enamel dial with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and pink gold Louis XV hands. A matte gilt movement, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, and an index regulator. Dial case and movement signed, cuvette signed by the retailer. The case was punched with Swiss and German hallmarks.
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Diameter: 52 mm
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Signed: Union Horlogère  Bienne-Genève
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Presentation watches from Kaiser Wilhelm II are rare, the present watch is in particularly good condition.
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) The last Emperor of Germany, Wilhelm II ruled the German Empire from 1888 until 1918. He was a grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to many kings and princes around Europe. Crowned in 1888 he dismissed the Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck in 1890 and launched Germany on a “New Course” in foreign affairs, culminating in his support for Austria in the crisis of the summer of 1914 that caused World War I. Bombastic and impetuous, he blundered often, making major diplomatic decisions on his own, and allowing his generals to dictate policy during World War I, ignoring the civilian government. An ineffective war leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in November 1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands.