German minute repeating watch with chronograph Circa 1902

Hunting cased pocket watch in quality 1A
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A very fine, large and heavy Glashütte minute repeating hunting cased pocket watch with chronograph manufactured in quality 1A with original box, circa 1902.
Case is 18 carat rose gold, tiered, polished, à goutte, with engraved monogram “FZ”, gold dome with presentation engraving: “Herrn F. Zschiegner zur Erinnerung gewidmet von Max Ziegra, Berlin, August 1902”, pusher for chronograph at “12”, slide for repeating mechanism and glazed movement. Enamel dial, Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds, 30 min. counter, gold Louis XV hands. 3/4 plate movement, frosted, gilt, with screwed gold chatons, finely ground and bevelled chronograph steel parts, ratchet wheel, two hammers / two gongs, gold screw compensation balance, very finely engraved balance cock, index spring fine adjusting device, gold lever and escape wheel and chatoned diamond endstone on balance.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Weight: 166 g
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Signed: Uhrenfabrik Union Glashütte in Sachsen
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Friedrich Zschiegner
Zschiegner was a theatre director and the inventor of a novel aerial dance act “Human Birds”. Max Ziegra (1852-1923) Max Ziegra was a German genre painter and amateur photographer. He studied at the academies of Dresden and Weimar and took part in exhibitions in Vienna in 1882 and Berlin in 1879 to 1790.